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ne of the Israeli politicians medics had treated the injured
least known in America is soldiers, and that Mr. Barak
among the most contro- didn't leave the scene until they
versial in Israel. And re- were taken to hospitals. Rami
cently, Justice Minister Tsachi who co-authored the Yediot arti-
Hanegbi again proved why every- cle, now writes that "doubts arose
one from political colleagues to afterward about the soldiers [who
enemies refer to him as a "thug." accused Barak of abandoning
This time it's over his accusa- them]," and that Mr. Hanegbi had
tion, made from the Knesset podi- turned his article into an instru-
um, that Labor Party leader ment of "wild incitement."
Negative epithets have followed
Ehud Barak "abandoned bleed-
ing, injured soldiers" during a Mr. Hanegbi, 40, for nearly two
1992 army training accident, at decades, ever since he led Castel
which Mr. Barak was present as — the militant, Likud-aligned stu-
military chief of staifi Five soldiers dent faction at Jerusalem's He-
were killed and six injured at the brew University in the late 1970s.
incident at the Tselim training Back then, he was given a five-
month suspended sentence for or-
base.
Even in the ruling coalition, ganizing a squad of chain-wielding
Likud's Benny Begin said the re- bullies who beat up Arab and left-
marks amounted to "hooligan- wing Jewish students. Respond-
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ism"; Yisrael B'Aliya's Roman
Breda= said Hanegbi had act-
ed the "rabble-rouser" and The
Third Wars Alex Lubotsky called
Mr. Hanegbi's accusation "vul-
gar."
Current military chief of staff
Gen. Amnon Shahak, Mr. Barak'
deputy during the accident, said,
"Anybody who claims that injured
soldiers were abandoned at Tse-
lim is telling lies."
Mr. Hanegbi made the charge
while representing the Ne-
tanyahu government against the
Knesset opposition's no-confi-
dence motion. The justice minis-
ter based his claim on a 1995
article in the Yediot Akhronot dai-
ly, which quoted a couple of sol-
diers injured at Tselim as saying
Mr. Barak had flown off in a he-
licopter without coming to their
aid.
The army investigation, how-
ever, found that army doctors and
ing to questions for this article, the
Justice Ministry Spokeswoman's
Office said Mr. Hanegbi had not
himself been a squad member.
After being elected to the Knes-
set in 1988, Mr. Hanegbi seemed
to have mended his ways, but the
impression faded. In the right-
wing's campaign against the Oslo
accord, Mr. Hanegbi was said by
journalists and Labor Party politi -
cians to be the Likud's liaison with
extremist, racist groups that or-
ganized inciteful and often violent
demonstrations against the Ra-
bin government
But on Jerusalem Day 1995,
Mr. Hanegbi commandeered a n
crophone and harangued Mr. Ra-
bin at length in the presence of a
large audience that included the
foreign diplomatic corps.
When Mr. Netanyahu began
his run for the Likud leadershiP ,
Mr. Hanegbi was one of his ear-
liest, most energetic backers. Mr.