BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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campaign against the Disengagement Plan – ostensibly out
of ideological identification with the cause.
He said Sunday that after deep internal ideological conflict
he decided to help Mofaz, even though the Defense Minister
was one of the main backers of the expulsion of Jews from
Gaza and northern Samaria.
SORRY FOR BEING RIGHT
[by Barry Chamish, published in the Jerusalem Post]
As Israel approached the tenth anniversary of the Rabin
assassination, Yediot Ahronot published a survey which
showed that 35% of Israelis do not believe the government's
version of the murder. Discounting the Arab sector, which
has almost no knowledge of the issue, close to half of all
Israeli Jews believe or suspect the government is lying to
them about the circumstances of Rabin's demise.
Just previous to the release of the poll, long and respectful
features about me were printed in a wide variety of Hebrew
publications including Anashim (People), ShofarNews and
Maariv. In the wake of the poll, I was invited to appear on
four television programs in a week, including the very staid
and establishment London And Kirschenbaum and Khok
VeTzedek (Law and Justice).
And why not? A good portion of the reason for the poll's
result was directly attributable to my book, Who Murdered
Yitzhak Rabin, which has sold over 34,000 copies in six
languages in Israel and made the top of the bestselling lists
of Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz. Combined with the sales of
my other three books in Hebrew, no other native Englishspeaking
Israeli writer has sold as many books as me in the
past decade.
I have achieved that elusive prize which escapes almost all
"Anglo-Saxon" writers: widespread recognition by mainstream
Hebrew-speaking Israelis. Not a bad achievement for