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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:17:32 +0200
From: Barry Chamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Har Shefi
NO SYMPATHY FOR HAR SHEFI
By Barry Chamish
Yesterday, the Israeli Supreme Court turned down Margalit
Har Shefi's petition to appeal her indictment for failure to
prevent the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. So she's off to the slammer
for nine months and I feel no sympathy for her whatsoever. Here's
why.
Shortly after Yitzhak Rabin's murder, Margalit Har Shefi was
arrested as a suspect in a wider conspiracy than just Yigal Amir.
Not long after her incarceration, the Shabak (General Security
Services) provocateur Avishai Raviv was placed inside her cell.
Since mixing the sexes in Israeli jails is forbidden, we can be
pretty sure that Har Shefi had some Shabak ties of her own.
But so did her uncle, Rabbi Benny Elon who will soon be
sitting in the new Sharon government. A few days after, Elon
broke the news that Yigal Amir's good buddy in the Eyal movement,
Avishai Raviv was a Shabak agent and Eyal was a Shabak creation.
How did Eilon know before anyone else?
He knew because HE worked with Raviv and I have solid
witnesses to back me up. Elon hung around young people at
anti-Oslo rallies and directed them into the arms of Avishai
Raviv. As one Eyal teenager told me, "I was at a protest rally
outside Orient House and Benny Elon told me, 'You have to meet
this guy.' Then he introduced me to Avishai. He was the
matchmaker between me and Raviv and because of him, I could have
been Yigal Amir."
Early in my research I worked with two filmmakers, Merav
Ktorza and Alon Eilat, who turned out to be inappropriate to the
task. But they did score a few coups and one occurred in a
meeting with Elon. He told them that a couple of months before
the assassination, Yitzhak Shamir called him into his office and
told him, 'They're going to kill Rabin and blame the Right.
They're planning another Arlozoroff and this time we won't get
back in power for another fifty years. I want you to identify
potential assassins in your community to prevent the murder."
Elon refused to repeat the statement on camera but there are two
strong witnesses who said he made it.
Margalit Har Shefi, a political organizer at Bar Ilan
University started palling around with two Shabak assets, Avishai
Raviv and Yigal Amir. Amir was the chief social director and
public speaker of Eyal. His task was to attract idealistic young
people opposed to the Oslo Accords and turn them into
hyper-extremist criminals. The youths he attracted at his Shabbat
seminars and his yeshivah speaking engagements were then directed
into the clutches of Raviv and Eyal.
Amir and Benny Elon were doing the same thing for the
Shabak. And I strongly suspected so was Har Shefi and said so
publicly at the Rabin Assassination Conference last Dec. 31 in
Jerusalem. Listening to me in the audience was Har Shefi's
grandmother Pnina Peli.
She approached me after my speech, introduced herself and
said, "You're right about Margalit and Benny but you've got the
motive all wrong." I quickly directed her to a semi-quiet nook in
the auditorium and asked her what she meant. "They were supposed
to do a good thing, stop a political assassination. They didn't
know the Shabak was using them."
Too many people were approaching me with questions and I
asked Mrs. Peli to meet me at the end of the conference.
However, the event went on too long and I had to suffice myself
with our two minutes of conversation. But I think what she said
was wise and right.
Benny Elon was an early activist for truth about the Rabin
assassination. He testified at the Shamgar Commission about
Raviv's activities and then, as far as I know, never made a
public accusation again. That task was left to his wife Emunah
who collected all the newspaper clippings about Raviv in one
damning volume called The Raviv File. And then she stopped her
activities.
The Benny Elon family know all about Raviv and the more
lurid background of the Rabin murder but they have not helped
Margalit Har Shefi in any way. The opposite. Benny Elon's left
wing brother was hired as Har Shefi's lawyer and he simply did
not defend her. Worse, he incriminated her even more deeply.
His chosen defence was that Har Shefi didn't take Amir's
threats against Rabin seriously and to prove it he coached Har
Shefi to stress the fact that she asked her rabbi if Amir's
biblical justifications for Rabin's murder were legitimate. What
a trap he laid for Har Shefi! Obviously if she went to her rabbi,
she did take Amir seriously and thus should have informed the
police about him. That's the way the judges saw it and from then
on Har Shefi's chances for acquittal were over.
Margalit Har Shefi had the best defence of all. She was
innocent of the charge of not preventing Yigal Amir from
murdering Yitzhak Rabin because he didn't do it. She and her
family have been contacted by numerous friends and given the
documentation. There is not an honest court on earth which would
convict Amir because there is no evidence against him. But there
is a whole pile of solid evidence against Rabin's bodyguard,
Yoram Rubin, who did shoot him and almost as much against Shimon
Peres, who indirectly ordered him to.
And if Har Shefi and her family were really interested in
saving her from prison, they would have used it. And if Benny
Elon really cared about his niece, he would have testified to
what he knew about Raviv and the murder. And if Margalit Har
Shefi wanted to be free, she would have told the truth about
Eyal.
Now, I know they were warned not to. And we can be sure the
warnings were terrible and terrifying. However, there are other
people trying to get to the bottom of the Rabin assassination who
have suffered in similar ways and I'm one of them. I'm taking
ridiculous risks, so how can I be sympathetic to Har Shefi when
she won't tell the truth to save her life?
I can only suggest a strong action which could redeem her.
On February 27, in Jerusalem District Court, Avishai Raviv's
trial begins again. He is also charged with failure to prevent
Rabin's murder and his role is a great deal deeper than Har
Shefi's. It would be a very good idea for her and her advocates
to sit in his trial if the sessions are open. Raviv's trial must
be scrutinized without letup, not just for her sake, but for
Rabin's and that of the Jewish nation. The phone number of the
court is 02 6706411. She would be wise to find out if the trial
will be open and when. And she would be wiser if her supporters
filled the courtroom at all times.
Meanwhile, Rabin's real murderer Shimon Peres is on his way
to the Sharon cabinet, while Margalit Har Shefi is on her way to
prison. Such is the upside down moral reality of Israel.
Here is the author's upcoming speaking schedule. Contact the
organizers for details:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY March 5
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Salt Lake City, UT March 10-11
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beginning March 16
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The author's book The Last Days Of Israel is available from
Dandelion Books in the US. Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] The new
edition of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin is available from Brookline
Books.
Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both books are available in Israel
from the Zionist Book Club. Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
call 02 6712284.
All books by the author are sold over amazon or barnesandnoble.
Please visit http://www.webseers.com/rabin
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