Peres' connection to Israeli rivals' deaths

November 10, 9:18 AMNY Israel Conflict ExaminerRichard Shulman

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Israel’s President Shimon Peres bears a connection to the murders of a number of his Israel rivals and critics.  [Rabin and Peres were known to dislike each other, and Rabin started to balk at the Oslo process that Peres had put over on the government secretly and by out-maneuvering it.]  Rabin soon was assassinated.  Peres succeeded him. 

Peres, can be seen on film asserting shortly afterwards, "’Three bullets pierced Rabin's body and the songsheet.  The songsheet was in his front jacket pocket, thus Peres admits that Rabin was shot from the front, an act Amir [convicted for the assassination] could not have committed.”  [The Health Minister made a similar statement.

Already in custody, Amir could not have fired the third shot.  Someone else did, either when Rabin was escorted to the hospital by his bodyguard or after arriving.  The statements by Peres and the Cabinet Minister indicate that Peres knew the real story and was in charge of the cover-up.

The original autopsy confirmed the real cause of death, but the chief pathologist, Dr. Yehuda Hiss, revised it to fit the 2-bullet theory.  The Shamgar Commission determined that PM Rabin was shot twice in the back, period.  Later, Dr. Hiss was convicted of illegally harvesting corpses’ organs.  Nevertheless, he remains the highest paid civil servant in Israel.  Coincidence? 

90 minutes after Rabin was declared dead, Peres convened a Cabinet Meeting at which he had Rabin’s bodyguard, Yoram Rubin, the one who failed to protect Rabin, to say the least, made his own bodyguard.  Do you think the guard deserved a reward for failure or that Peres was prudent in putting his life in that guard’s hands? 

Also taken care of was Rubin’s boss, Carmi Gillon, head of the secret service.  During the uproar and inquiry, Peres sent Gillon abroad, as an Ambassador.  He later brought Gillon back to run his Peace Center.  That is the third person who at best can be called a bungler, but to whom Peres protected. 

Rubin was sent to Washington, to head security there.  He returned to become PM Sharon’s guard.  [Didn’t Sharon know better?]  “On December 18, '05, Sharon had tea with Peres in a private Knesset meeting.  Within half an hour Rubin escorted him to Hadassah Hospital with a stroke.”  Sharon’s second seizure came after a meeting alone with his deputy, Ehud Olmert, who succeeded him.

Before that, Tourism Minister Ze’evi criticized Sharon for letting Peres pursue appeasement-minded diplomacy.  Ze’evi warned that if Sharon didn’t fire Peres, Ze’evi would pull his MKs out of the coalition and Sharon’s regime would fall. 

Six hours before the deadline, Ze’evi was assassinated, conveniently for Peres.  Arafat denied having anything to do with it, and blamed the Israelis.  That might not have seemed out of the ordinary, but that was when Sharon besieged Arafat’s compound.

There were other such cases  (Barry Chamish, 1027).    

For more on Peres, click here