BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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- But as for the leaders of these kids...Here's Noar Avoda at
work. To stop us from distributing the flyers, two Labor Youth
leaders volunteered to distribute them. After wasting a few
hundred we figured out they were ending up in the bins. So
the next generation of Labor is already being prepared for
lying and deceit. Anything for the right cause.
- And who should pass by me but Rabin's Health Minister,
Ephraim Sneh. "Hey Sneh," I shouted to him. "Was it two
bullets or three?" He knew what I meant. Bet he didn't expect
me there to ask. He thought he was in hallowed territory,
protected from Israel.
- And, just like any other rally, I met people who admired my
work and passed on information. One young man proudly
showed me where I mentioned him in my Rabin book. Amir
knew him from school and ran to the other entrance of the
sterile zone when he saw him. He noted that he had a tiny
role in history. Another Laborite in his fifties told me, "You
don't know what you did in the last two weeks. Peres was
thrown out of leadership because of the suspicions that he
murdered Rabin. I know people who switched to Peretz just
to get rid of the murderer."
The lion's den was filled with my people and most were
good. All they needed were a few facts leading to an
awakening. And the twelve of us provided it to tens of
thousands of our people. Of the twelve, two were over sixty,
and three were middle-aged women.
Now, let us ask where everyone else was.
Where was the Committee To Reinvestigate The Rabin
Assassination? Weren't they taking credit for planning this
counter-event? And where were the other Rabin
investigators and writers? It turns out it's much easier to be
brave behind a computer screen. And where were the fine
people of Kedumim who I spoke to just a week earlier and
told them this was a way to save your homes. I guess they
really want to be uprooted without a fight.