BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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conference, with all members and me speaking for five
minutes and then all taking questions.
I prepared myself for the fiasco.
As I expected, you couldn't get any of the speakers off the
platform with a hook for forty minutes each. When my turn
finally came, I announced the rally and got off the mike in five
minutes. Then I got out of the place, or at least I planned to
until who walked in but Yigal Amir's sister Hadas, phony wife
Larissa and their Shabak tagalong named Nachum.
So I spent a little time watching and talking to the official
Amir gang. What was clear was they had no intention of ever
freeing Yigal Amir. There was no family desperation to
liberate an innocent brother or husband. So I told them off for
their ingratitude and got out of the ugly atmosphere pronto.
Once I had left, the tagalong took the mike to explain what a
dangerous Shabak agent I was. Then the "wife" announced
that she would have nothing to do with anyone who
considered Shimon Peres a suspect in the murder.
I was told that sealed their fate for almost everyone in the
room. The Amir family is doing the Shabak's bidding. Like I
didn't know that anyway.
This was a press conference with almost no press and it had
nothing to do with organizing a presence at the memorial
rally. And in fact, only one member of this committee even
showed up at the rally and he left after half an hour, once the
dirty work began. The real planning of the rally belonged to
me and Tova Rubin. I wrote and she printed 6,000 flyers
asking relevant questions about the murder in Hebrew and
English. I brought a five foot long sign asking Who Really
Murdered Yitzhak Rabin in both languages and wore my teeshirt
with the same message.