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Once again, the week of the 12th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan has become a time of public controversy as the country commemorates the murder of former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin.The memory of the 12-year-old murder, to which Yigal Amir confessed and of which he was convicted, has opened old wounds and bad blood between the Israeli left and right.Despite his 1992 election promise of no negotiations with the PLO terrorist organization headed then by Yasser Arafat, Rabin gave guns and Israeli land to Yasser Arafat in exchange for promises of peace. Left-wing spokesmen continue to refer to the widespread right-wing protests against Rabin's policies prior to the murder as "incitement to violence." This, despite the following:
*Amir was, by his own admission, self-motivated. In a video of his police interrogation, screened on national television last night for the first time, Amir clearly states that he first conceived of the idea of killing Rabin when the first Oslo Agreement was signed (Sept. 1993).
*Right-wing leaders clearly said that civil-war violence was not acceptable in fighting the Oslo process.
*Most importantly, several incidents of anti-Oslo incitement before Rabin's death were actually instigated by the General Security Service (Shabak) itself, with the purpose of discrediting and shaming the right-wing camp. For instance:
*The Shamgar Commission, which investigated the Rabin assassination, found that nationalistic and religious elements were "specifically harmed by Shabak agent-provocateur Avishai Raviv's provocations," and, in what some saw as a major understatement, concluded that "his GSS handlers could not have been able to ignore this."
*Avishai Raviv admitted, shortly after the murder, that he had staged a swearing-in ceremony for young Jewish members of the "Eyal" militant movement so that it could be shown on television. The ceremony was screened twice on national TV, and brought great criticism upon the nationalist camp. Israel's Media Watch (IMW) filed a complaint with the police against the reporter, proving from the unscreened footage of the ceremony that it was clearly and obviously staged, in violation of the law forbidding public servants from performing acts of trickery and breach of trust. However, the police closed the case - as it did for nearly 20 other cases against Raviv.
*The famous "Rabin as a Nazi" poster: TV broadcaster Nitzan Chen testified to the police that it was Raviv who not only provided him with a copy of the poster, but also made sure afterwards to verify that the poster would be shown on the evening news.
*Raviv took "credit," in the name of his fake Eyal organization, for the murder of an Arab in Halhoul - though the killing was later found to have been committed by an Arab.
*Former IMW chairman Yisrael Medad notes that "90% of the so-called right-wing incitement screened by the media at the time featured none other than GSS agent-provocateur Avishai Raviv," whose government-paid job it was to stir up precisely that type of trouble.
The Foreign Ministry has released, in honor of the anniversary, copies of several speeches delivered by Rabin, including his acceptance of an Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew University in June 1967 following the Six Day War (Rabin had been the IDF Chief of Staff during the War); at the signing of the first Oslo Accord at the White House on Sept, 13, 1993; at the signing of the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty on Oct 26, 1994; his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, on Dec. 10, 1994, and at the Tel Aviv "peace" rally just moments before he was killed on Nov. 4, 1995.
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