BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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Achronot, the country's most popular newspaper, without
anyone understanding the implications.
On November 3, '05, Israel's second TV channel broadcast a
breakthrough documentary proving Rabin was shot a third
time from the front. This was my claim of eight years and it
appeared to vindicate my work. But the film's director, Naftali
Glicksberg, could not allow that to happen. During the
roundtable discussion which followed the screening, he
viciously attacked my integrity without naming me. The photo
of the arrest was a complete fabrication, he said, and
someone, which had to be me, changed the watch to read
9:31 when in fact, in the original shot, the watch read 9:53.
Some claim since my source never fabricated evidence and I
sure didn't.
And this lie began gaining currency. A few days later I met a
youthful reporter from Makor Rishon who was covering the
Rabin murder conspiracy and offered him the full set of
pictures. Young Jimmy Olsen of Makor Rishon turned down
the offer claiming I had no right to offer the photos for
publication, like they were copyrighted by the Shabak, and
anyway, I had fabricated the watch shot.
The next week I was interviewed at great length by a
genuine reporter, Yonathan Gat, of Israel's People
magazine, Anashim. This publication is popular among the
nation's media crowd and yuppies and the result was highly
professional. For one thing, the magazine became the first to
publish two of the backstage shots.
During the course of the three day interview, I received a visit
from two gentlemen, today respected physicians, who in their
youth briefly dabbled with Avishai Raviv. Raviv, as we know,
has disappeared from Israel and no one knows where to find
him. Except they spotted him in Budapest, Hungary working
as a senior citizens' helper. I gave Gat the scoop and his
magazine turned to the Shabak and asked its spokesman if