The Steimatzky chain of book stores has decided to remove a
book on the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin from its
shelves.
The book is Who Murdered Yitzchak Rabin? by journalist
Barry Chamish, and it tells a very different story than what
the public has been told to believe until now.
The decision to remove the book was made after One Israel MK
Ori Paz complained. He claimed the book was "so full of lies
that it represents a blow to democracy, the rule of law, and
everything else that is connected with this... "
Critics charged that it simply asks questions that Paz does
not want asked.
Barry Chamish himself recently summarized his case for Arutz-
7:
"Police and court reports and hospital papers indicate that
the murder did not occur the way the Shamgar Commission
determined, nor in the way State Pathologist Dr. Yehuda Hiss
reported.
"Yigal Amir shot only blank bullets, as the guards at the
time screamed, and he was undoubtedly only the scapegoat."
Some of the book's main points are:
Variance of physical evidence: powder burns on Rabin's
clothing, which, according to ballistic experts, could only
have occurred if the gun was pressed against Rabin's body.
A film of the event, however, shows Amir at a distance from
Rabin when he fired his shots. The film shows that Rabin was
unhurt, and walking upright, after the shots were fired. Yet
by the time he got to the hospital, he was unconscious from
loss of blood, and suffering gaping wounds.
The film shows a back door of the limousine being slammed
before Rabin's entry into the car, even though supposedly, no
one else was in the car at the time.
The death certificate states that Rabin was shot in the chest
and that his spine was shattered. Only later did the doctors
change the cause of death to "shots to the back."
Rabin's veteran driver "could not find" the direct route to
the hospital and did not radio ahead. When Rabin arrived, the
medical staff was not prepared to treat him.
Arutz-7 asked Steimatzky Chairman Yehoshua Matzliach why the
book was removed from its stores' shelves:
"Do you remove books based on political pressures?"
"No," replied Matzliach, "we did so because of reactions
by customers who commented that the book disturbs them, and
then when Paz wrote us, this simply lit the flame..."
Segal then asked why recent books that infuriated the right-
wing were not removed from the shelves.
"This was a personal decision by myself, and it could be that
I'm extra sensitive," Matzliach answered.
"In any event, we will still sell the book, and whoever wants
it can order it and we'll get it for him from the back room
or from wherever it is."
Matzliach said that he thinks this is only the fourth book in
the past 21 years that has been removed from Steimatzky book
shelves; he mentioned two others--Hitler's Mein Kampf
and a book about Baruch Goldstein. That in itself tells you
his mindset. He has placed this book in the same category as
Mein Kampf.
