JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of the official Knesset ceremony honoring the memory of former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin on the 27th anniversary of his assassination, MK Betzalel Smotrich claimed that his death had wrongfully been attributed to the religious Zionist community.
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Smotrich said that every community has a right to protest and demonstrate and even make sharp criticisms and this is what the religious Zionist community did in the wake of the Oslo accords which endangered the state of Israel and led to a terror wave which caused the death of thousands.
“The harsh words did not cause the murder of the prime minister but rather a degenerate murderer- Yigal Amir,” Smotrich said “Those who failed to protect him were not right-wingers, not settlers but rather the security services who did not only fail to protect him but also used irresponsible manipulations which have not fully been revealed to this day.”
Smotrich was referring to the use of a spy, Avishai Raviv, whose job was to provoke the right-wing extremists into action against the government. Raviv used numerous ploys including a placard of Rabin in SS clothes and was fully aware of Yigal Amir’s murderous intentions but was never brought to trial, claiming that he had warned his GSS operators of Amir’s intentions.
Smotrich’s speech was harshly received by GSS leaders who in an unusual step responded to the criticism, stating that “on this day an elected leader chose to encourage conspiracies and to denigrate an organization dedicated to foiling terror and protecting the country’s security. Such statements which cause extremist discussion should be condemned.”
Smotrich responded that “it is very upsetting that the Shin Bet does not take responsibility for its failings in the Rabin murder. The Shamgar committee stated unequivocally that it was responsible for operating the ‘champagne’ agent who made provocations and contributed to the failure, and now it has compounded its guilt by attacking a Knesset member over this. The inability of a state body to accept criticism and to improve must concern all of the citizens of Israel.”
A number of politicians criticized Smotrich, but political pundit Amit Segal and MK Michal Waldiger of religious Zionism supported his statements. Segal said that Smotrich had not endorsed a conspiracy but had rather revealed a “shocking story which had been swept under the carpet” of employing an agent provocateur in the heart of the right wing to encourage extremist actions against the government.
And yet the dog Avishai Raviv still walks around a free man. The Shin Daled are the lowest form of creature.
I remember thinking and seeing articles saying back then that in America such a thing would NEVER happen. No way would the FBI encourage crime for political benefit.
Ray Epps going from the top of the FBI most wanted list after the capital riots to an “innocent victim of right wing conspiracy theories” caused me to change my mind. But back then we were right as well. At that point in time the FBI never would have engaged in such behavior.
How many more years will it be until Klal Yisroel can start thanking Yigal Amir without having to pretend he was wrong?
nothing surprises me with the thugs who run Israels security services, we know that ONLY the Torah protects am Yisroel.
“Smotrich responded that “it is very upsetting that the Shin Bet does not take responsibility for its failings in the Rabin murder.”
He’s obviously not stating the full truth, which everyone knows.
The Zionists will never admit what happened there, but, regardless, the Religious Zionists is right that it was not any of them who murdered the Zionist leader.
Before the act there is the word. Before the word there is the thought. One comes before the other.