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Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories arose almost immediately following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, on November 4, 1995. The gunman Yigal Amir, a Jewish Israeli student, was apprehended within seconds by other people in the crowd. Rabin died later on the operating table of Ichilov Hospital. Amir confessed to the assassination of Rabin.

The matter has been reported as clear cut in the media, and the Shamgar national inquiry commission and the court all drew the same conclusion that Amir was guilty of murder. Yet, some inconsistencies in the evidence have been alleged, both in the medical records and in the inquiry testimony. These allegations and other suspicions have been included in occasional left-wing, and more prevalent right-wing conspiracy theories.

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Conspiracy claims

A number of conspiracy theories have made some or all of the following claims. Others have been strident in opposing these conclusions. [1]

  • Police reports state that gunpowder was found on Rabin's body and clothing, suggesting that he had been shot at point-blank range, as gunpowder travels only a few inches before dispersing. According to the official version, Amir shot from a distance at which no powder traces could have settled on Rabin's body and clothing. [2][3]
  • Surgery reports describing a bullet wound with the bullet entrance in the chest[4] are inconsistent with the eyewitness reports and the Kempler video, which suggest that Rabin was shot in the back while walking away from Yigal Amir.
  • Rabin would have walked after Amir's shots in a manner inconsistent with gunshot, an impossibility if they shattered the vertebrae. [5][6]
  • Each medical record describes wounds which are "completely different" in nature to those concluded by the official Shamgar Commission. Medical descriptions of Rabin's condition are described as suddenly appearing to change.[7]
  • Dr Guttman, a physician, opined that "[t]he first two wounds, to the chest and abdomen occurred before Rabin's arrival. The third, frontal chest wound, had to have been inflicted after he entered the hospital," and that "it is inconceivable that Rabin had no spinal damage. The six members of the operating team were too skilled to have all been wrong about that."[6]
  • Three police officers who had been present testified that "when Yitzhak Rabin was placed in the car, he showed no visible wounds."[8][9] Gordon Thomas in his book "Gideon's Spies" adds: "The surgeons insisted there was no possible gunshot wound that would have allowed Rabin to leave the attack site showing no evidence of a wound and arrive at the hospital with multiple damage ... subsequently the doctors have refused to discuss the matter."[6]
  • Rabin's motorcade took 22 minutes to arrive at the hospital, even though he had a highly experienced chauffeur, and the streets were cordoned-off.[10] The distance between the crime scene and the hospital is a five minute walk.[11]
  • Police ballistics tests on shell casings found at the scene did not match Amir's gun.[2][12]
  • No gunpowder residue was found on Amir's hands, clothing, or hair. Gunpowder residue would inevitably have been present if Amir had shot genuine bullets, as opposed to blanks.[13][3] (Gunpowder would have been present for either blanks or live rounds. Blanks contain the same if not more powder than live rounds and typically expel more powder residue in the direction of the shooter because less is able to exit the barrel by traveling the path a bullet would normally travel. Whoever developed this part of the conspiracy theory does not know much about ballistics or firearms.)
  • No blood was seen coming from Rabin at the scene, despite wounds to his lung and spleen, nor was any found later at that location.[8][9] By contrast witnesses describe blood "gushing" from a chest wound upon arriving at hospital.[14]
  • Some witnesses stated that someone shouted, "It's nothing ... they're blanks. It's a toy gun."[15][8][16]
  • A Shin Bet (secret service) agent testified that "I heard a policeman shout to people to calm down. The shot is a blank."[8][9]
  • Policeman Moshe Ephron stated: "The shots didn't sound natural. If they were real shots, they should have sounded much louder."[8][9]
  • Leah Rabin stated that a security guard told her immediately after the incident that the bullets shot at her husband were "blanks". She further stated that she was told by an Israeli security chief that she "should not worry as the whole thing had been staged."[17]
  • Amir, who was employed by the Shin Bet in Latvia about two years before the murder,[18] commented at a court hearing, "If I were to tell the whole truth, the entire system would collapse. I know enough to destroy this country."[19][20][21]

Criticisms of the conspiracy theories

The most common criticism of the conspiracy theories simply refutes and relativizes claims made in the conspiracy theories or by the conpiracy theorists[1][22] and points out that the theories are detached from Israeli political culture, social relations and historic events.

Right-wing activists also claim that the mostly Israeli right-wing conspiracy supporters embarrass the Israeli right by supporting fringe theories for which no proof exists.[citation needed] The conspiracy theorists, according to this criticism, move the debate away from the responsibility of what they call the "perpetrators of the Oslo crimes".[citation needed] These right-wing critics conclude that the right-wing conspiracy theorists serve the goals of the Israeli left.[23]

See also

Books

  • Uri Barkan - Srak, web-publication in Hebrew
  • Barry Chamish - "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?", ISBN 1-57129-081-8.
  • David Morrison - Lies: The Israeli Secret Service And The Rabin Assassination

References

  1. ^ a b TWM - Death of a Peacemaker/Brook
  2. ^ a b יגאל עמיר ירה סרק
  3. ^ a b No gunpowder on Yigal Amir`s Hands "Yigal Amir did not murder Yitzhak Rabin"
  4. ^ ëê ôéòðçðå àú øöç øáéï
  5. ^ הירייה השלישית ביצחק רבין נעלמה בועדת שמגר
  6. ^ a b c Yitzhak Rabin`s third wound - "The Rabin Murder Fraud"
  7. ^ ëê ôéòðçðå àú øöç øáéï
  8. ^ a b c d e [1] at yigalamir.com
  9. ^ a b c d The Yitzhak Rabin murder - Eye Witnesses -"Yigal Amir did not murder Yitzhak Rabin"
  10. ^ ? אז מתי בדיוק נרצח יצחק רבין
  11. ^ MapsTel Aviv Insider Tour Travel Guide
  12. ^ The Yitzhak Rabin murder-TESTIMONY OF CHIEF LIEUTENANT BARUCH GLADSTEIN
  13. ^ הידיים הנקיות של יגאל עמיר
  14. ^ Ichilov Hospital takes part in the cover up of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin
  15. ^ Magazine Interview With The Daughter Of Yitzhak Rabin
  16. ^ Ahavat Israel - Who Murdered Rabin? - Jews Protest in Jerusalem, Israel
  17. ^ יגאל עמיר לא ירה ביצחק רבין
  18. ^ ëê ôéòðçðå àú øöç øáéï
  19. ^ "יגאל עמיר ידע מראש על "בימוי הרצח
  20. ^ "Politics: Discredited Shin Bet chief's comment resurrects Rabin conspiracy questions". Israelinsider. 2005-10-30. http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/6924.htm. Retrieved on 2008-06-30. 
  21. ^ Yigal Amir blames Shimon Peres for the murder of Yitzhak Rabin
  22. ^ Israel's Plague of Conspiracism
  23. ^ "Rudstein - the man suing Peres admits he was FBI plant against right", Voice of Judea TV, February 3, 2006

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