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The Blame Game
Is On In Israel
Some in Israel's right wing are digging deep for a conspiracy theory against
their cause.
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
n far-right-wing circles, the gious right-wing, has been on the time he was working for the Shin
talk is of conspiracy. And not ropes since Mr. Rabin's killing. Bet cut no ice with Mr. Haetzni.
for the expected reasons. Near- They've been trying to defend "Raviv was not an informer; he
ly all in that camp believe themselves, saying Mr. Amir and was an agent provocateur," he
there was a conspiracy by the Ra- his co-suspects were aberrations, maintained.
Nadia Ma , the fiery leader
bin government to make the and that the only violence ad in-
ta.r Green," says "a
In
right-wing demonstrations ap- - citement in their movement n were of " Wom en
hateful, violent and incite- marginal, and always condemned Pandora's Box has been opened
will
they really by the leadership. The right's ver- ... [But] I fear the whole truth ares
never
come
out."
She
comp
pear
ful. In the ri ht's ' view,
sion has not exactly caught on;
weren't.
g
Some suggest
the assassina- ublic
ppinion
of the
the aftermath
Rabin as-
o is shifting mas- the aftermath
John F to
of
tion itself was a Shin Bet plot sively in favor of the government sassination Keene
to smear the right that and away from the opposition. the .Kennedy assassina-
Ra- tion, with conspiracy theories and
Then along came h Avishai 20s, unanswered questions multiply-
"boomeranged" when the bullets
is late
turned out to be real. Nobody has viv. Mr. Raviv, in
yet publicly accused anybody in was the head of a tiny organiza- ing. " A lot of people on the street
to
the government or Shin Bet of ac- ti on called Eyal that pledged s. are talking about it," she said.
tually intending to get Mr. Rabin murder Arabs and leftist
Jew
of these ideas sound far-
with
workedd ve ry clo se, as it turns
but who knows? My feel-
kille d, but the innuendo goes in He gal
turns
fetched
iv
. Mr. Rav,
dion.
ct
ire
th at
"This may sound crazy, but out, was also a Shin Bet informer. ing is that a lot of weird things
At a demon- have been going on."
how is it that
stration in Jeru-
error?
y
dl
there
were thou - of salem a month D ea
sands
The most far-fetched idea is
before the as- the one posed by Mr. Sackett and
yahrt-
dies i zeit can
sassination, Mr. his co-leader in Zo Artzenu,
n Kikar
Raviv showed
Israel. TV a pho- Moshe Feiglin. They note that
Malchei Yisrael
tomontage of Leah Rabin says she heard some-
so soon after Ra-
one in Mr. Rabin's guard yell af-
bin was shots
Rabin
Mr.
Most people
dressed as an
have between
SS officer. That
zero and one
e
picture has ben
yahrtzeit candle
an albatro ss
in their homes.
the
around
It was a Satur-
right-wing's
day night; the
neck, but with
were
stores
Mr. Raviv's ex-
— Nadia Matar
closed, and all of
posure as a Shin
- a sudden there
Bet informer,
were boxes of
the hardline ter he was shot, "Don't worry —
yahrtzeit can- Yigal Antic
ri ht is now on they were only blanks." Not long
dyes being hand . Thought he had blanks?
the attack — in- after the shooting, an organiza-
out.
ed
Somebody must have known sisting that Mr. Raviv was not tion calling itself "Revenge" noti-
what was going to happen," rea- only behind the photomontage, fied the media, "We missed this
soned Shmuel Sackett, co-chair- but was the point man in the Mr. time; next time we'll succeed."
(For more than a half-hour af-
man of the radical opposition Rabin government's campaign to
ter the shooting, the TV replayed
group Zo Artzenu (This Is Our ruin the opposition's name.
Land), and a self-described "for- • The recent arrest of two yeshi- an interview with an eyewitness
va boys for creating the pho-
me member of the outlawed Ka- tomontage has not changed their who claimed the bullets missed
Mr. Rabin. It was not confirmed
hane Chai.
"Everything came from Raviv," until later that Mr. Rabin had
Told that the candles lit in opinion.
Kikar Malchei Yisrael on the argued Elyakim Haetzni, a for- been hit.)
From this they conclude that
night of the assassination were mer Knesset member and a mil-
mainly of the household variety, itant settler leader in Kiryat the Shin Bet, probably acting
through Mr. Raviv, meant to
commonly stocked in homes by
He dismissed the notion that stage a failed assassination at-
the box, Mr. Sackett replied, Arba.
"That's interesting." He said it the Shin Bet was connected with tempt by putting blanks in Mr.
go
was one more point that needed the assassination, but main- Arni fs gun and inciting him to
Rabin.
to be checked into, and an illus- tamed that it was the sole source after Mr. was to further smear
The idea
tration of the growing number of of the incitement, acting on or-
the right, goes the theory.
questions that are swirling ders from above. All the ubiqui- th
It might have worked, says Mr.
around among the people he tous expressions of menace could
meets.
likely be traced to their man Mr.
Sackett,
someone
switched
the "except
blanks for
live bul-
Raviv, he said.
lets." Asked who he thought it
On the ropes
The Raviv
overwhelming
evidence might have been, Mr. Sackett
The political background to the t Mr.
w a true-blue
as at the same replied that he didn't know yet,
conspiracy theories is that the rhat
right-wing, especially the reli- ight-wing fanatic
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"My feeling is that a
lot of weird things
have been going
on."
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