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January 26 - False Accusations
January 26 - Vatican Update
January 26 - Olmert At It Again
January 17 - Vatican Article
January 17 - What? Me Fight in the IDF?
January 12 - The Sharon Assassination Attempts - Part Two
January 4 - Stroke

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January 26, 2006 - False Accusations

I never had such good reaction so quickly.
The Americans For A Safe Israel website checked plout's holocaust denier charges against me and found them to be lies.
In an act of true morality, I add for a change, the webmaster banned plout from every appearing on his list again.
Bravo, truth!

Barry

O K, last time around,
I checked Stormfront, they quote him, nothing to indicate that he had submitted material. As I pointed out to you earlier your articles are also quoted many places I doubt you submitted them to. . He is always identified as pro-Israel and a holocaust 'believer'. They quote him simply because he raises questions looking for accountability from the Israeli government. What a concept !
I also checked out other websites of the revisionist genera, they ALL cite him as pro Israel and anti revisionist. Not a one made any tiny effort to identify him as an ally. Several had vehement opposition to his appearing at the event that Pipes was so worked up over. Daniel Pipes would have done much better to have appeared with him to debate the revisionists. That's water under the bridge now, he didnt and the event didnt happen.
Barry Chamish did not " write a single piece for the nazis about his family", I had read that article before it appeared on that website. I suspect they copied it off other sites. As I believe is the case with the other articles, all of which are openly pro Israel and anti revisionist.
You still maintain that he has 'collaborated' with the neo-nazi sites, even after you said you did not say that he had no nazi views. You just cant keep from coming back to that canard.
Mr Plaut what I have been spending several hours doing was going over the links and websites that you cited to substantiate your accusations against Barry Chamish. To this moment there is not a single piece of evidence in what you cite to remotely substantiate your allegations and charges.
You also mix in terms such as 'deranged' in your allegations, although you are not a doctor. And you make statements that he is so ''desparate for attention that he will even publish his conspiracy nonsense on their websites.''.
The overwheling conclusion I come to is that you have an incredible personal bias against Chamish that honestly affects your judgement regarding him. Your personal dislike is so strong that you cannot make a statement about him without going back to the items that have already been shown to you to be without merit.
Re to Daniel Pipes, he is an outspoken advocate of another arab state. You can decide for yourself whether he is pro-arab ornot. His writings are on record for his support of the arab state.
Bottom line sir, in view of your strong and unjustified allegations amounting to unsubstantiated smears of another pro-Israel Israelite I am removing you from membership of AFSI and banning your articles on the AFSI list. I am cc'ing this to the list owner and other moderators.
Sincerely,
Yaacov Levi
Moderator
AFSI


Now you may not like the politics of the next site but look what it reveals about this plout. He is a genuine crook and nut.
And more is pouring in. Court should be fun net week

http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij04112005.html
One of FrontPages's most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who "could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes" (Pipes is the instigator of Campus-Watch), and is someone who "launched an Internet site on which he publishes articles that typically espouse far-right positions" [6]. Given that Plaut was born and raised in the US, educated at top US universities, one would have hoped that he had learned the finer points of living in a democracy; however, he now lives in Israel, and this may have dulled his sensibilities.
For an insight into Plaut's integrity and civility the following incidents should warn anyone about the character of this person:
" a young political philosopher and human rights campaigner from Ben Gurion University, Dr. Neve Gordon, was accused by an extreme right-wing polemicist from Haifa University, Dr. Ste[v]en Plaut, of being a supporter of Norman Finkelstein, whose book, The Holocaust Industry, led many on the Right to associate him with Holocaust deniers. When Gordon decided to sue him for libel, Plaut subsequently disseminated articles attacking Gordon on the Internet, including on some extreme right-wing Kahanist sites. Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization in America, also weighed in against Gordon by writing to the President and the Rector of Ben Gurion University questioning the continued employment of Gordon and protesting his libel case which, Klein argued, was an intervention in the civil liberties of Plaut because it denied Plaut's right to freedom of expression! [...] Writing under assumed names, Plaut has a long history of attacking, labeling, and targeting left-wing scholars in Israel. One anonymous article appeared under the name of Socrates in the Middle East Review of 2001. " [7] (emphasis added)
Here is a recent example where Plaut savages Jonathan Cook, an important free-lance journalist who frequently writes on Palestine and the Middle East. Plaut easily brandishes the "anti-semite" slur and here he demonstrates hyperbolic tendencies:
Cook is a self-proclaimed "freelance journalist". He is in fact a vicious anti-Semite openly endorsing Palestinian mass murder of Jews. The very fact that he has never been deported nor jailed by Israel speaks volumes about the extent to which the Israeli government is really willing to defend the country and Israelis. Cook writes anti-Israel propaganda for the Egyptian anti-Semitic daily al-Ahram the anti-Semitic British daily The Guardian, al-Jazaara [sic], and just about any other anti-Semitic outfit you can think of.[8]
In 2004, Plaut lifted the email list of an electronic discussion forum based at the Univ. of Haifa [9]. Then, using this list, a co-conspirator called "Rocky" proceeded to send hateful emails to the forum posing as someone called Yusuf, a "Zionist Palestinian", who also was "your token Arab who adores Israel". "Rocky" then made the mistake of using CC instead of BCC to forward one of his diatribes. The ensuing email exchange between "Rocky" and Plaut discussing the faux pas was revealed when "Rocky" repeated the mistake by sending it to the entire distribution list! It would make amusing reading were it not for such a sordid attempt at deception, the smearing of others, and interfering in a discussion of Israeli academics on how to obtain a modicum of justice for the Palestinians [10]. Furthermore, one could well imagine the furor if a Palestinian academic were to pose as a malevolent prankster in a Zionist website posing as Moshe "your token Jew who adores Palestine." Plaut's activities demonstrate a lack of integrity and honesty. Perhaps one would expect higher standards from a Princeton educated professor, but maybe in Israel, in a business school, this is considered par for the course. These facts notwithstanding, he is a regular contributor to FrontPage!

 

 

 

 


January 26, 2006 - Vatican Update

http://www.shofar.net/site/ARDetile.asp?id=7900

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=96786
Plan to Internationalize Jerusalem May be Urged at Herzliya Conference
11:34 Jan 17, '06 / 17 Tevet 5766

(IsraelNN.com) The non-profit Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies has issued a study recommending that Jerusalem's holy sites be administered by an international body. The study likely will be presented at the annual Herzliya conference schedule to start this Saturday.

The center's research concluded that the "lack of trust between Israel and the Palestinian Authority" supports turning the authority over to an international committee to preserve holy sites. Jordan closed off non-Moslem sites during its occupation of the eastern part of the city. Israel re-opened up Christian and Jewish sites to visitors after Jordan retreated during the Six-Day War in 1967 and Israel reunited the capital.



http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/672148.html
Temple Mount yes, Mount Sinai no
Dr. David Jaeger, the Vatican's legal advisor in negotiations with Israel
, presented an interesting fact pertaining to the status of holy sites: According to the United Nations resolution on November 29, 1947, Jerusalem is considered a "corpus separatum" that belongs neither to the Jewish or Palestinian state. Therefore, the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem after the Israeli War of Independence was considered, like the Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War, to be "illegal."

As far as international law is concerned, the status of Jerusalem has not changed since 1947, and, therefore, according to Jaeger, Israel and the Palestinian Authority cannot achieve a bilateral agreement concerning the status of Jerusalem. Israel cannot "give" the Old City to the PA because, according to international law, Israel does not have legal authority over Jerusalem.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3194646,00.html
 

http://www.arutzsheva.net/news.php3?id=95967
Vatican also wants Jerusalem?
Vatican envoy: Israel, Palestinians cannot be trusted to safeguard holy sites
Ahiya Raved
Israel cannot be trusted? The Vatican's legal advisor in Israel, David Jaeger, harshly criticized Israel’s policy regarding safeguarding Christian holy sites.
Speaking during an international conference at a Haifa University conference Tuesday, Jaeger said Jerusalem is an important city the fate of which SH
ould not be left in the hands of Israel and the Palestinians.

http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5094
Talks continue between Israel and the Holy See, in the post-Sharon crisis
Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) – Negotiations continue between Israel and the Holy See to reach a comprehensive bilateral accord, despite the difficult political situation in Israel following Ariel Sharon’s illness. Delegations of the Holy See and the State of Israel have continued today, Wednesday, January 11, their negotiations aimed at reaching the "comprehensive agreement" mandated by the 1993 Fundamental Agreement, on the fiscal status of the Church in Israel, and on safeguarding ecclesiastical property, especially Holy Sites. The previous meeting took place last November 24; parties have agreed to hold their next meetings on May 17 and 18. In the meantime the bilateral "Working Group" on properties the Churches wishes to recover will continue its work, and other consultations also will continue between the parties' legal experts.
Sharon's departure from the political scene could cause some worry to the Catholic negotiators, given Premier Sharon's decisive role in making his colleagues and subordinates take seriously the relationship with the Catholic Church and resume negotiations with the Holy See, even when other government elements were inclined to go in other directions.
It was Washington that persuaded Sharon of the importance of paying due attention to the Catholic Church, and it will fall to Washington to continue to press this matter on his successors, both before and after elections in Israel.

Because so many sites filter attachments, under separate cover you will receive a history of the Vatican's recent ploys to wrest Jerusalem from Israel. I can only hope it will inspire you to acquire my new DVD: ZION FIRST, THE VATICAN'S NEW CRUSADE AGAINST JERUSALEM.

I watched the completed DVD in full for the first time yesterday. It is well more than a lecture by me. The second hour includes expert evidence by historian, Dr. Asher Edar and lots of pertinent questions by the audience. This DVD takes you inside a most important gathering in Jerusalem and you do feel you're there.
The DVD is available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;



 Please send payment, either before or after receipt of the DVD to:

Barry Chamish
POB 1682
Reut 71908 Israel

$20 Am. including postage. NIS 50 for Israelis.

 


January 26, 2006 - OLMERT AT IT AGAIN

     Ehud Olmert has a fatal flaw. Fatal for Israel mostly. Give him a position of power and he exploits it to enrich himself, and damn the consequences for the country. When he was Jerusalem's mayor, he pillaged the city treasury for himself and his cronies. On five separate occasions he was investigated by the State Comptroller for theft and corruption. Shall we begin with a quick overview?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=386304
http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/editions/israel/2006/01/amir-oren-corrupt-olmert-is-worthy.php
Only two years went by, and in the race against Sharon it emerged that Olmert had not learned his lesson. The investigation of his relations with contractor David Appel found that his office manager, Shula Zaken, had phoned Appel, asked him for a contribution to Olmert's election campaign, and arranged the visit by the mayor of Athens, suiting it to his needs. Olmert joined the conversation on an extension and said to Appel, "Whatever you want, just tell me," but Attorney General Menachem Mazuz realized that Zaken had implicated Olmert through no fault of his own - "Yes, Mr. Mayor" - and closed the case.
In the affair of the Likud receipts, Mudrik mentioned with skepticism one of the witnesses' problems with his memory, which conveniently became confused. At that time, the judge did not remember that forgetting is a common human phenomenon. Olmert remembered hardly anything in the Appel case - not the Greek delegation, not the special help that Appel had requested, and not even whether such help had been received. This was the second incident that caused Olmert an attack of amnesia. The first was recorded in 1988, in criminal case 84/87 against Yehoshua Halperin of the Bank of North America. Olmert, the witness for the prosecution, had borrowed $50,000 from Halperin interest-free, but found at least 12 different ways to say that he could not remember.

      With his recent newfound power, Olmert was quick to turn it to his advantage. First, he compromised Israel's telecommunications industry.
      Partner is one of the country's three cellular companies. Its clients include the military, police...in fact, the whole security apparatus. Because of the fear of a hostile takeover, nobody may purchase more than 10% of a cellular company's stocks without interference by the government.
       In mid-December, Olmert flew to Hong Kong and met with the CEO of Hutchison Telecommunications International, the majority shareholder in Partner. Just a week later, an Egyptian company, Orascom, bought 19.85% of Hutchison's shares which just happened to give it a 9.997% of Partner's stocks.
       Olmert had coached well. Now one of Israel's most important telecommunications companies had a new Egyptian partner, one with stakes in companies in Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Israel's dearest friends.
       As for Olmert; did someone say kickbacks?
       Not content with compromising telephone security, Olmert is now working on our fuel supplies:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/672426.html

Policy u-turn: Olmert wants to buy gas from Britain, not only Egypt 19.1.06 | 18:16 By Sharon Kedmi
In an abrupt about-face of policy, acting prime minister and finance minister Ehud Olmert is seeking to buy natural gas from Britain. The gas would derive from an offshore field British Gas has developed in partnership with the Palestinians: the Prime Minister's Office under Ariel Sharon had prohibited buying from them.
At present Israel's sources of natural gas are the Tethys Sea consortium, but its field is not large, and Egypt. Yesterday Olmert wrote to Gordon Brown, Chancellor to the U.K. Treasury, saying Israel would be glad to do business with British Gas.
Sharon had opposed buying Gazan gas, on the grounds that Israeli money might wind up financing terrorism.

     
One can only wait with bated breath for the new business opportunities which await Olmert, the peacemaker, when he gets his shot at the big prize: four years as prime minister.

end part one

     Now to the vulgar slander that appeared in the Jewish Press last week. First, some background:
     Before I ever heard the name Daniel Pipes, it was reported to me that he had mounted a campaign of slander against me. Until then, I didn't realize that not only was he a member of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR), he was almost entirely funded by them directly or by proxy. His prominence was not due to any innate talent; he had an in. His father, Richard, was head of the CIA's Soviet department through the Cold War.
      Pipes turned to writing mediocrities with names you don't know like Goldwasser, Balint and Plout.
Their assignment was to write to every site and newsgroup which published me, threatening them if they so continued. The first two, I surmise, saw how they were used and backed off. What remained was the third mediocrity, Plout.
      Now I never publish his name simply because he doesn't deserve any publicity on my coattails. Leave it be said that he is a professor, virtually unknown in Israeli academic circles, and he once wrote a book, apparently about the local boy scouts movement. I looked it up on Amazon. It is number over a million, meaning it's sold about twelve copies.
       Pipes tried to cover his tracks by setting up a phoney grudge between me and him. That didn't work because, if I had to, I would choose a much worthier grudge match.  But he took on his assignment with vigor and not much intelligence. After being caught in the act with sites loyal to me, he played the same game using pseudonyms in places like Rotter.net  and Israel's Wikipedia. But he was too dumb to cover his tracks well.
       His style of slander was repetitious enough but the big giveaway was referring to Pipes and leaving links to his site everywhere he showed up. The best giveaway though was, accidentally or not, now and then, thoughtfully including his e-mail address in the comments supposedly by other people.
       His most vicious slander was a longterm attempt to portray me as a Holocaust denier. For that I am suing him next week. In the Jewish Press article, to save himself in court, he admitted it wasn't true. But in the wake of it, he employed a few devotees with names like Efratguy to spread the same lie.
       Consider this letter just received from a blog owner:


I posted your email in my blog and someone in new jersey did a search for "daniel pipes shill blog" and found us, and then several visitors came from Tel Aviv straight to my site. They anonymously said a few rude things about you and now they're just lurking. I was amazed at how quickly they showed up AND the fact that there were probably a hundred returns to that search...think they went to every one of them and badmouthed you? anyway, my blog is at http://nord.twu.net/acl/news.html
Stay safe... looks like you're enemies are pretty desperate to shut you down. I couldn't believe it when they called you a neo-nazi and a holocaust denier!
   
On the Pipes/Plout partnership:

http://web.israelinsider.com/Editorials/4982.htm

On Pipes's fine organization:

http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest82.htm

       A few of the letters sent to the Jewish Press were forwarded to me. I'm told many more were sent and I can't begin to express my gratitude to all these wonderful people. Let us categorize the arguments. First, the writers noted the article had no research, no scholarship, but it sure contained a lot of hate:

"Virtually every "question" raised by the conspiracists about the Rabin assassination has by now been fully explained away and answered:"

Only error and misdeeds have to be explained away, like trying to "explain away" lipstick on your shorts.

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It is surprising to me that the Jewish Press would support such weak quasi-intellectualism as was present in the conspiracy article by Steven Plaut. One can never judge the truth by just labelling something mental illness and writing it off like that. Every true Dayan (and scientist as well) understands that every detail of a claim must be examined carefully before a conclusion is reached as to its veracity or lack thereof.

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      Next, the writers expressed the suspicion that the article was commissioned by people a great deal more powerful than the "author:"

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Tell me, dear Mrs Klass, do you have any idea who could possibly have been paying whom to make fun of a very good and serious man called Barry Chamish and whose political fortunes are supposedly served by it?

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One wonders why the author of this article finds the official gov't line so much more credible than the obvious conclusion which the above facts lead to. One also wonders if he doesn't have similar biases in his poohpoohing other conspiracies, in particular the Rabin Assassination which he has written about extensively in defense of the gov't position.

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Plaut then quotes a certain "seminal book" by Daniel Pipes. The entire Plaut article thus strives to resemble a scholarly review of another scholarly work.

This sort of writing just proves that he is either a mole or a tool of the Federal Government.

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The author then goes to the fallacy of logic (argument ad hominem) and links Barry Chamish to fringe neo-Nazi and Holocaust revisionist groups. I can attest, that as a conservative in some political aspects, nonetheless my writings have appeared in the web-pages of the far left in America. The fact of the Internet is, that anyone can cut and paste the writings of anyone else. So much for the spurious use of argument ad hominem by the individual to whom I address.
Very simply put; Barry Chamish writes with a bias to Israeli nationalism and Daniel Pipes is a Neocon. There you have it.

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      But what really peeved the writers, was the "author's" insinuation that I, and anyone who thinks as I do, is "mentally ill." Now here's where things get interesting:

Israel's Plague of Conspiracism
1-Conspiracism is probably best characterized as a form of mental illness. Are you a licensed psychiatrist?
2-Some researchers in psychiatry plainly agree.....WHO?

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Commentary: International Relations, Research & Education
Vocabulary words used incorrectly by individuals who consider themselves intellectuals create misrepresentation, but what is even more bizarre is how loosely some individuals use non existent terms or words.
There are many slick unsavory characters from all walks of life who probably contribute to numerous unsolved mysteries.
There is no reference to "conspiracism" or
"Conspiracists" in legal or medical terminology or any reference to a diagnosis of "conspiracism" as a mental illness or "plague".
Conspiracy: in Criminal Law occurs when two or more persons conspire/ plan an unlawful act, which becomes unlawful when done by the concerted action of the conspirators.
Civil Conspiracies:
the term "civil" is used to designate a conspiracy which will furnish ground for a civil action,as where, in carrying out the design of the conspirators, overt acts are done causing legal damage, the person injured has a right of action.
Reference: Black's Law Dictionary-Fourth Edition

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His faulty logic goes like this: Because some people believe in conspiracies, all people who believe in conspiracies suffer mental illness, and therefore promote anti-Semitism thus they are dangerous and you should avoid them.

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When I have questioned Plaut about his passion against Chamish, he was totally steadfast. No facts in the world could sway Plaut from his attitude. His answers were full of emotion. He did not answer my questions just lashed back about Chamish being crazy.
As I see it, Plaut has a personal dislike for Chamish and the Jewish Press fell prey to it. If it is not a personal dislike, it is probably part of a campaign to discredit Chamish so the truths he does discover are not given validity. I guess that would make it a conspiracy, and since I am the one to suspect it, by Plaut's definition that would make me mentally ill.

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Daniel Pipes may be an 'expert' on the Middle East but it is news to me
that he is also a serious student of psychology. To describe all those
who come to grips with some of the most serious conspiracies - and their
cover-ups - as paranoid delusions, - means that a huge percentage of
Israel needs to be in the padded cell recommended by this supposed
academic.

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At risk of being called a conspirator by Plaut, and therefore mentally ill by his definition, I question why Plaut is so vehemently opposed to Chamish's work that he would spend so much time and effort to discredit him.

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Conspiracy theories are like Chassidishe Maises (miraculous stories of Tzaddikim) If you believe all of them you're a fool, if you don’t believe any you’re in denial!!!

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      Now look at this remarkable exchange, sent to me. The reader merely suggested that Plout appear on Tamar Yonah's radio show on Arutz Sheva to explain his views, because she often has me as his guest. What is Plout's answer? He calls Tamar "mentally ill."


I asked Plaut if he'd be prepared to be interviewed on
Tamar Yona's show. This was his reply!!


--- Steven Plaut <splaut@econ.haifa.ac.il> wrote:
 I do not debate with the mentally ill.
 
 
 On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, > wrote:
 
  Dear Mr Plaut
 Chamish often is heard expounding on Tamar Yona's
 Arutz 7 show. If she
 invited you, would you be prepared to be
 interviewed by her (by phone) to
  bring up the points you've raised in your
 interesting "Plague" article?
 Yaakov

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In his defense petition to the court at the upcoming suit, plout submitted reams and reams and reams of quotes from my work. He knows every word and nuance of my writing. In fact, he knows it far better than I do. I certainly never read anything he's "written," so if he doesn't like my stuff, why doesn't he just ignore it? What is the reason for this obsession.
    As you will soon see, many readers assume he is on Pipes' payroll and just wants to impress the boss. That answer is not entirely satisfactory to me. He attacks his mission with way too much vigor.
Can you imagine anyone working day and night, non-stop, just to put an end to my writing success? There have to be more sinister causes.
     And I found one. A clinical psychologist working for an American prison service took the trouble of reading plout's "work" and analyzing it. His professional conclusion has to be the right one:

I suggest that the evidence indicates that Steven Plaut is suffering from an acute form of mental illness known as “Arrested Development.” This mental illness is characterized by denial of the obvious. This mental illness usually develops in childhood as a psychological self-defense mechanism for survival in an abusive home. Mr. Plaut in fact is in denial of a truism that nearly every mature psychologically balanced adult acknowledges, id est, “The annals of history are replete with accounts of conspiracies.”

Now we have to ask ourselves why Steven Plaut feels compelled to write missives containing such bitter vitriol? In a google search for Mr. Plaut's writings I discovered that nearly everything he writes is a tirade or a screed. His articles almost without exception are written in the attack mode. He reminds me of a two year old screaming to get his demands met. It is obvious to me that Mr. Plaut is crying out for help. He has an identical psychological profile as the inmates whom I counsel in the state prison system. He appears to be unbalanced. He needs to get help soon.

       We are clearly dealing with one very sick individual.

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       Now let us look at the anger the writers felt at the Jewish Press. First, it was reported to me by several people, that the paper didn't have the courtesy to reply to their letters:

I just wrote to the Letters to the Editor. I've heard nothing back.

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      Other writers reported they refused to grant me an equal hearing:

A situation has developed in The Jewish Press where serializing Barry's essays has been replaced by serializing non-stop, primitive attacks against Barry, WITH NO RIGHT OF RESPONSE.

This is not right.

And I say that it is not right as a journalist who has been a member of the U.S. Society of Professional Journalists for 16 years, a member of the Foreign Press Association in Israel for 15 years, who produced a nationally syndicated radio show in New York (The Barry Farber Show), was a Business and Finance Reporter with Reuters' second largest bureau worldwide, in New York, and worked with CBS Television National Network News, in New York.

This is NOT RIGHT.

You cannot maintain the pretense of The Jewish Press being a serious newspaper -- unless you simply want to be seen as another Shtetl Jewish organizational rag -- if you go on and on and on publishing these Trash Barry Chamish "commentaries" and "letters-to-the-editor", NEVER allowing your victim a right of response.

This is an OUTRAGE.

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A group of Orthodox Jews would be the last group I would expect to go along with smearing another person as you allowed to happen in your paper. Using the Laws of Evidence as a standard, do you excuse yourself because you are not acting in a court. Well, you are acting in the court of public opinion. Perhaps you also ignore the possibility that what you printed was loshen hora.
Decency on your part would have posted the opposing opinions next to each other and let the reader come to his own conclusion.

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      Others felt the newspaper may have been on the take, and the "author" certainly was:

If this article did not come 'covered in money' then a modicum of
research on your part would have shown the entire thrust of the article
to be completely invalid. If it did come 'covered in money' then you
should have prominently displayed the 'sponsor'.

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Two writers demanded an apology to me or they would stop reading the amateurish rag for good. Below is one good example:
      

I won't be hitting your website ever again, and I will be asking my friends and family to find their Israel and Jewish news elsewhere. Unless, of course, you'd like to apologize to Barry Chamish IN PRINT. I am utterly outraged. I plan to post my opinion about this all over the web (see the Weekly Thought in the blogspot of Solongroup.org). You have no idea how large a sector of society you are offending. Take that into consideration at your next board meeting.

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      But everyone agreed the paper printed blatant libel:

The Jewish Press should be ashamed to allow this kind of vulgar slander to appear on its pages.

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I have an appeal. I took the article to my attorney Dov Even Or and he advised me that it was amongst the most blatant and libelous hatchet jobs he's ever seen. But a suit from Israel would bankrupt me even before it was heard. I can afford to sue a plout from here but can't reach the jewish press without a New York based-attorney. If anyone can represent me on contingency, we have an easy victory and a great way to get Israel's anguish publicized. Please write me if you can take on a trial for justice...that will pay for itself.   

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     The Vatican rolls on. My new DVD Zion First: The Vatican's New Crusade For Israel becomes more relevant by the day. How much so? Under separate cover, I am sending you a photo of the pope in his happy youth standing beside the butcher Mengele.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=96786

Plan to Internationalize Jerusalem May be Urged at Herzliya Conference
11:34 Jan 17, '06 / 17 Tevet 5766

(IsraelNN.com) The non-profit Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies has issued a study recommending that Jerusalem's holy sites be administered by an international body. The study likely will be presented at the annual Herzliya conference schedule to start this Saturday.

The center's research concluded that the "lack of trust between Israel and the Palestinian Authority" supports turning the authority over to an international committee to preserve holy sites. Jordan closed off non-Moslem sites during its occupation of the eastern part of the city. Israel re-opened up Christian and Jewish sites to visitors after Jordan retreated during the Six-Day War in 1967 and Israel reunited the capital.
http://www.shofar.net/site/ARDetile.asp?id=7900

I watched the completed DVD in full for the first time two weeks ago.. It is well more than a lecture by me. The second hour includes expert evidence by historian, Dr. Asher Edar and lots of pertinent questions by the audience. This DVD takes you inside a most important gathering in Jerusalem and you do feel you're there.
The DVD is available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;



 Please send payment, either before or after receipt of the DVD to:

Barry Chamish
POB 1682
Reut 71908 Israel

$20 Am. including postage. NIS 50 for Israelis.

Available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;
 

 


January 17, 2006 - VATICAN ARTICLE

 

Click to read The Vatican Agenda by Joel Bainerman

 

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3194646,00.html
http://www.arutzsheva.net/news.php3?id=95967
Vatican also wants Jerusalem?
Vatican envoy: Israel, Palestinians cannot be trusted to safeguard holy sites
Ahiya Raved
Israel cannot be trusted? The Vatican's legal advisor in Israel, David Jaeger, harshly criticized Israel’s policy regarding safeguarding Christian holy sites.
Speaking during an international conference at a Haifa University conference Tuesday, Jaeger said Jerusalem is an important city the fate of which SH
ould not be left in the hands of Israel and the Palestinians.

http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5094
Talks continue between Israel and the Holy See, in the post-Sharon crisis
Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) – Negotiations continue between Israel and the Holy See to reach a comprehensive bilateral accord, despite the difficult political situation in Israel following Ariel Sharon’s illness. Delegations of the Holy See and the State of Israel have continued today, Wednesday, January 11, their negotiations aimed at reaching the "comprehensive agreement" mandated by the 1993 Fundamental Agreement, on the fiscal status of the Church in Israel, and on safeguarding ecclesiastical property, especially Holy Sites. The previous meeting took place last November 24; parties have agreed to hold their next meetings on May 17 and 18. In the meantime the bilateral "Working Group" on properties the Churches wishes to recover will continue its work, and other consultations also will continue between the parties' legal experts.
Sharon's departure from the political scene could cause some worry to the Catholic negotiators, given Premier Sharon's decisive role in making his colleagues and subordinates take seriously the relationship with the Catholic Church and resume negotiations with the Holy See, even when other government elements were inclined to go in other directions.
It was Washington that persuaded Sharon of the importance of paying due attention to the Catholic Church, and it will fall to Washington to continue to press this matter on his successors, both before and after elections in Israel.

Because so many sites filter attachments, under separate cover you will receive a history of the Vatican's recent ploys to wrest Jerusalem from Israel. I can only hope it will inspire you to acquire my new DVD: ZION FIRST, THE VATICAN'S NEW CRUSADE AGAINST JERUSALEM.

I watched the completed DVD in full for the first time yesterday. It is well more than a lecture by me. The second hour includes expert evidence by historian, Dr. Asher Edar and lots of pertinent questions by the audience. This DVD takes you inside a most important gathering in Jerusalem and you do feel you're there.
The DVD is available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;



 Please send payment, either before or after receipt of the DVD to:

Barry Chamish
POB 1682
Reut 71908 Israel

$20 Am. including postage. NIS 50 for Israelis.
 


January 17, 2006 - WHAT? ME FIGHT IN THE IDF? 


     Once again, we witness the agonizing spectacle of the brave youth of Israel fighting the cowardly
 bullies of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF):

Pictures of military actions in Hebron: http://www.hebron.com/news/invasion.htm
1. Hebron declared "closed military zone"
Israeli central command General Yair Nave tonight declared all of Hebron to be a 'closed military zone.' According to this military order, only residents of Hebron will be allowed into the city. All others will have to request 'special permission' from the "Judea' regional brigade." The order is due to be in effect until January 22.

http://www.hebron.com/articles/murderedtwice.htm

The Jewish Community of Hebron has come under invasion by the Israeli police and other security forces. This morning, for the 2nd time in two days, dozens and dozens of police, border police and riot squad members invaded the Avraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48348

Israel withdrawal
from West Bank?
Many regard planned eviction of Jews as start of massive future evacuation.

     
The fight is a civil war, make no mistake about it, and the IDF is using its arsenal of repression to win and that includes provocateurs planted within the youths to create outrages aimed at putting the worst face on the rebels.
      But the young rebels are the heroes of Israel today even if they don't fully understand the whole picture of what they are fighting against.
       In too short a time, my children will be drafted into the IDF. When that time comes I will be sending the following notice to the IDF's office of recruitment:

Sir,
    I proudly served in the IDF for 13 years as a regular and reserve soldier. During my service, I did not complain when asked to serve in high-risk operations, including the Lebanon War. So, it is with great sorrow that I inform you that I will not permit my children to serve in this army if they are to be responsible, directly or by proxy, for the removal of my fellow Israelis from their homes, wherever they may be. If you cannot assure me of that, I will take whatever measures are necessary to prevent their recruitment, including sending them out of the country.

    While the heroes of Hebron are standing tall to protect the holy land of their ancestors, my beef runs much deeper. The IDF is being used to protect the interests of outsiders determined to dismember Israel, and the deep criminality of those they installed in power to rule Israel while it lasts. Those who do so rule us are murderers and my children will not defend them.
     It took me ten years to convince a majority of Israelis that Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in a political coup directed by Shimon Peres. The same thing happened to Sharon and I'm not planning to write another book proving it.

Sharon Docs Face Scrutiny Over Treatment
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
The Associated Press
Friday, January 13, 2006; 8:39 AM

JERUSALEM -- Ariel Sharon's doctors faced new criticism Thursday for failing to divulge a brain disease discovered after the prime minister's initial stroke and for prescribing blood thinners that may have contributed to a massive second stroke.

The criticism added to a growing chorus of questions about Sharon's treatment.

After Sharon, 77, suffered an initial, minor stroke Dec. 18, doctors put him on Clexane, an anticoagulant. At a news conference a few days later, doctors acknowledged blood thinners increased the risk of brain hemorrhage, but said the fear of a clot leading to another stroke was greater in this case.

The debate gained momentum after the Haaretz daily revealed that Sharon also suffered from cerebral amyloid angiopathy, known as CAA, a disease common in the elderly that weakens the blood vessels in the brain and increases the risk of hemorrhage.

Doctors confirmed they knew about the disease after the first stroke, but prescribed the blood thinners anyway, a move outside experts criticized Thursday.

"If someone has a disease that caused bleeding, that causes bleeding, that could cause bleeding in the future, giving anticoagulants ... is certainly an undesirable situation," said Amos Korczyn, head of the Tel Aviv University Medical School's neurology department.

Doctors were prescribing the Clexane until they could seal a small hole in Sharon's heart they said caused Sharon's first stroke. Clexane, or enoxaparin, is sold as Lovenox in the United States.

But some experts questioned that theory and said the initial stroke was more likely caused by Sharon's brain condition. Sharon suffered his massive stroke a day before he was to undergo the procedure to seal the hole in his heart.

"The likelihood is that the hole in the heart was of no relevance," said Dr. Anthony Rudd, a stroke specialist at London's St. Thomas' Hospital. He said CAA could have caused the first stroke.

Doctors did not disclose the condition in December, and several Israeli media outlets chided Sharon's medical team for keeping it under wraps.
*
SenderBerl comments on its own original analysis regarding Sharon
January 12, 2006 6:00PM

SenderBerl has always offered its interpretations on the edge. There he was, the Prime Minister, without medical supervision, isolated at his ranch, after a stroke, when he was to go into the hospital the next morning for surgery.

If SenderBerl is right about his first hospitalization, then there was no need to for him to take blood thinners at all -- however, with his KNOWN CAA condition the NWO gave him an overdose of blood thinners under the guise of his preparation for legitimate surgery the next day, Sharon knowing that he had to mask the first stroke (where blood thinners were medically ordered the wisdom of that questionable order taking us on a different direction we need not go).

Thus the overdose of blood thinners, under the umbrella of Sharon's own design to himself mask his first hospitalization, triggered his complaints, and then exactly in line with SenderBerl's original analysis on rushing him to the hospital in Jerusalem by ambulance, he then succumbs to a second stroke IN THE AMBULANCE when there was an endless stream of high quality medical helicopters to take him to the hospital in Jerusalem.


 11/01/2006
Docs concealed PM's disease despite disclosure promise

By Aluf Benn <mailto:aluf@haaretz.co.il>

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's physicians concealed from the public their
diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, it emerged yesterday.

At a press conference held December 26, a week after Sharon's first
hospitalization for a minor stroke, doctors reported that Sharon's
neurological examination was normal.

"His neurological examination was normal," Prof Tamir Ben-Hur, head of
neurology at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, said at the
conference. "We saw that the blood vessels that supply blood to the
brain are normal."

However, it emerged yesterday that during that hospitalization, doctors
had diagnosed Sharon's vascular disease. This disease made it riskier
for Sharon to use the anticoagulants he was given.

The Prime Minister's Bureau invited political reporters to the press
briefing, rather than those who cover the health beat. There, the
doctors detailed Sharon's medical condition before, during and after his
hospitalization.

"With the prime minister's consent, we are at your disposal to provide
proper disclosure of his condition following his hospitalization,"
announced Prof. Boleslav Goldman, Sharon's longtime physician. Later on,
Goldman even ridiculed reporters' poor grasp of medical information.

The doctors gave the impression that Sharon was relatively healthy for
his age, with no risk factors besides being overweight.

"He has things on the MRI that you find in most people his age, the
meaning of which is unclear [...] It is nearly impossible for any person
his age to undergo an MRI and not see these changes," said Ben-Hur.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/668685.html


000000000000000000000000   NOTE from  a doctor to a doctor:

The Hadassah Hospital physicians doesn't know even how to lie !
If they knew "before" that he had Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy [CAA] so how
they could give him anticoagulants [blood thinners] which is a clear
contraindication  ! How they could operate on a patient who was on blood
thinner and who didn't have a Normal Coagulation Profile because was given
before the second stroke, Clexane [Brand Name] or Low Molecular Heparine.
2 injection daily, in his home in Beersheva, Negev, without any physician
daily control and without any daily evaluation of his Coagulation Profile
which can be done only by a thorough examination in a hospital environment.
That was the reason, why the PM Sharon was bleeding to dead with a massive
intracerebral hemorrhage and therefore was submited to 3 brain surgeries in
24 hours  with abnormal Coagulation  Profile ! [On Heparine or Clexane]
Giving a patient with a CAA  anticoagulant or blood thinners is a double
pure ignorance mistake. I do hope, that a total independent ENQUIRY by
Independent Medical Commision appointed by the Israel's Attorney General
will be appointed in order to investigate all why's and who's, about the
treatment of the PM of Israel Ariel Sharon. The State of Israel, all
Israelis and the Jewish People deserve to know the real truth of a such
medical catastrophe.
Dr. Sigmund Mittler, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Advanced Medical Imaging

    The two major forces plotting Israel's demise are the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Vatican.
     Please read the following before trying to understand the significance of the developments occurring
in the wake of Sharon's demise:

http://www.barrychamish.com/html/wayne_owens.html


http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/670259.html
MK Shimon Peres, number two on the Kadima list, will leave on Sunday night for a week-long trip to the U.S., where he will meet in Washington with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, and the president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz. Peres will be accompanied by former Foreign Ministry director Avi Gil.

Israel's State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has launched an investigation into suspicions that MK Shimon Peres broke campaign finance laws, accepting illegal donations from foreign sources.

It was abruptly announced on Sunday, a day after the above news broke, that Peres had resigned from the Knesset. He supplied no reason for his resignation.

Peres received $320,000 for the Labor Party primaries, which he lost to Amir Peretz despite polls predicting a landslide in his favor.

The donations, far in excess of the 36,000 shekel (approximately $8,000) per donor allowed by law, came from billionaires Chaim Saban, S. Daniel Abraham and Bruce Rappaport.

The State Comptroller refused to release the details of the investigation, but his office released a statement saying, "The comptroller views with great severity what transpired during the primaries, certainly without referring specifically to Shimon Peres." A spokeswoman said the investigation is ongoing and has not yet concluded.

The investigation was made possible by a law passed in the last days of the 16th Knesset, allowing the Comptroller to investigate candidates’ violations of the campaign funding law in primaries, and not only in general elections.

Peres' lawyer told Army Radio that "all donations were given according to the law, and approved by the [Labor] party's comptroller."

All three donors in question serve on the board of the Peres Center for Peace. Saban was, in the past, investigated for illegal funding of Ehud Barak's second election campaign.

S. Daniel Abraham has long been involved in Peres's independent diplomatic initiatives on behalf of the Jewish state. He founded the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation with former Utah Congressman Wayne Owens, and served as its lone chairman since Owens was found dead in Tel Aviv in 2002.

       In actuality, Congressman Owens was murdered in Tel Aviv by the same forces who brought down Rabin and Sharon. Leading these forces was Shimon Peres.

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=898
Peres to meet Rice
Shimon Peres, Israel’s deputy prime minister, is coming to Washington next week to meet with Condoleezza Rice
.
Peres, who arrives Tuesday, will be a guest of the Center for Middle East Peace, a think tank led by Danny Abraham and Sara Ehrman, U.S. Jewish leaders closely identified with the Oslo process.

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Ar...3200088,00.htmlIn a Tel Aviv speech, Peres says Kadima will attempt to reach final-status peace agreement, adds Israel needs a strong political Center to make tough decisions."The Middle East is approaching a fork in the road – either becoming fanatical-Shiite-terrorist or modern and sane," Peres said. "Arik (Prime Minister Ariel Sharon) surprised me in a positive way, he said 'we're both no longer little kids and four years is plenty of time.' With Ehud (Olmert) I found an even bigger drive to reach a peace deal." http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=945Reports Thursday said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has
invited Olmert to visit Washington DC, probably sometime next month.
And on Wednesday evening Bush called Olmert by telephone and told him
that he intended to make sure the vision he and Sharon shared of
Israel surrendering more land for the sake of  peace became a
reality.
Olmert responded that if elected, he would be working side by side
with the American to realize the birth of a Palestinian Arab state on
the ancient Jewish lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=96512
The Al-Manar newspaper reported that the U.S. is conducting secret contacts with the Palestinian Authority and Arab countries in an effort to have them help strengthen Olmert's stature. The U.S. informed them that it is interested in having Olmert head Kadima and "continue the process that Sharon began to solve the Palestinian-Israel conflict." The paper further reports that the Americans feel that Olmert is a "smart leader who will be able, with his advisors, to lead the peace process and rebuff the political machinations against him."
The U.S. even informed Olmert, according to the paper, that it would like him to keep Sharon's advisors on his team, especially Dov Weisglass and Shimon Peres.

     In the previous reports, the following were involved in the murder of Wayne Owens. For further information, there is a complete chapter on the Owens murder in my new book, Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust:

     Shimon Peres
     Dov Weisglass
     Daniel Abraham
     Sara Ehrman
     Avi Gil

     The following are members of the CFR
      http://www.geocities.com/cfrexposed

      Condoleeza Rice
      Daniel Abraham  
      Paul Wolfowitz
      Stephen Hadley

     And those who still refuse to acknowledge the depth of the Vatican's role in Israel's coming disintegration, consider how distraught it is since Sharon's sudden exit from power:

http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5094
Talks continue between Israel and the Holy See, in the post-Sharon crisis
Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) – Negotiations continue between Israel and the Holy See to reach a comprehensive bilateral accord, despite the difficult political situation in Israel following Ariel Sharon’s illness. Delegations of the Holy See and the State of Israel have continued today, Wednesday, January 11, their negotiations aimed at reaching the "comprehensive agreement" mandated by the 1993 Fundamental Agreement, on the fiscal status of the Church in Israel, and on safeguarding ecclesiastical property, especially Holy Sites. The previous meeting took place last November 24; parties have agreed to hold their next meetings on May 17 and 18. In the meantime the bilateral "Working Group" on properties the Churches wishes to recover will continue its work, and other consultations also will continue between the parties' legal experts.
Sharon's departure from the political scene could cause some worry to the Catholic negotiators, given Premier Sharon's decisive role in making his colleagues and subordinates take seriously the relationship with the Catholic Church and resume negotiations with the Holy See, even when other government elements were inclined to go in other directions.
It was Washington that persuaded Sharon of the importance of paying due attention to the Catholic Church, and it will fall to Washington to continue to press this matter on his successors, both before and after elections in Israel.

        The IDF's vicious attack on Hebron is barely a symptom of the crime and rot it is now defending. Unless it wakes up and actually begins to defend Israel again, it would be an unforgivable crime for any Jew to serve in its ranks.

end

     Because so many sites filter attachments, under separate cover you will receive a history of the Vatican's recent ploys to wrest Jerusalem from Israel. I can only hope it will inspire you to acquire my new DVD: ZION FIRST, THE VATICAN'S NEW CRUSADE AGAINST JERUSALEM.

I watched the completed DVD in full for the first time yesterday. It is well more than a lecture by me. The second hour includes expert evidence by historian, Dr. Asher Edar and lots of pertinent questions by the audience. This DVD takes you inside a most important gathering in Jerusalem and you do feel you're there.
The DVD is available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;



 Please send payment, either before or after receipt of the DVD to:

Barry Chamish
POB 1682
Reut 71908 Israel

$20 Am. including postage. NIS 50 for Israelis.


FUN sites:


http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/whats_he_buildi.php
http://fredslinks.blogspot.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/01/10/do1003.xm
http://www.solongroup.org/ISRAEL.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/4597624.stm
http://islamcommentaries.com/2006/2006_0112.htm
http://hashem1.net/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,3196291,00.html
http://www.geocities.com/millsee123/index.doc

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=96169>
http://www.arcoiris.tv/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=727
http://www.chekroun.org/israelfany.swf
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/667192.html
http://www.israeldreamtours.com
www.dhimmitude.org/archive/by_eurabia_122002_eng.doc
http://www.geocities.com/cfrexposed/articles/index.html
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/027/938.html
 


January 12 - THE SHARON ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS - PART TWO

     On December 18, Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres raised wineglasses together in the Knesset. Half an hour later, Sharon suffered a stroke. He was brought into hospital by Yoram Rubin, the bodyguard who murdered Yitzhak Rabin. On Jan. 4, Sharon returned to hospital with a massive cerebral hemorrhage and within a few hours I published my suspicions that Sharon was the victim of a second assassination attempt by the same Peres/Rubin team which had finished off Yitzhak Rabin.
     Naturally my critics howled that I saw conspiracies everywhere. To their dismay, I'm certain, within a day, so did the rest of the Israeli media. How well they have been trained since the Rabin murder!
     I'll let the following typical reports summarize the suspicions of foul play, then we'll return to more political mayhem in Israel:                              


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/667192.html
 

Last update - 11:42 06/01/2006 Hospital director: Letting Sharon go to Negev farm was negligentBy Ran Reznick, Amos Harel and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents
Several senior doctors raised a host of questions Thursday about the standard of treatment Ariel Sharon has received over the last two weeks, with the director of a large hospital telling Haaretz that according to the media reports on Sharon's medical treatment, he fears "there was indescribable negligence."
 
The questions cover the period from Sharon's first stroke two weeks ago to his arrival Wednesday night at Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, where he is being treated for a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. They pertain to the supervision over Sharon's physical state, following the blood-thinning medicine he received after his first hospitalization.
 
Such supervision is essential, as these medicines could cause a cerebral hemorrhage, like the one Sharon suffered. Questions were also raised about the dosage he received.
 
"Yitzhak Rabin was not wearing a bulletproof vest that could have protected him from the murderers' bullets, and now, 10 years later, Sharon was not given the required medical treatment that could have saved him," the hospital director said. "Israel has not learned the lesson from Rabin's murder, and thus lost two prime ministers because of inadequate protection - one from weapons, the other from illness. I cannot understand how the prime minister could have been sent to stay in an isolated farm, more than an hour away from the hospital he was supposed to be treated in, two weeks after a stroke and one night before a heart procedure he was afraid of."
 
Sharon was slated to undergo a cardiac catheterization procedure Thursday to fix a small hole between the chambers of his heart that doctors said contributed to his initial stroke.
 
"A night before the catheterization he should have been hospitalized in Hadassah or at least made to stay in Jerusalem," the director said. "I also have questions about the dosage of blood-thinning medication he received. My feeling is that Sharon did not get the best medical treatment he deserved."
 
A senior doctor told Haaretz that "Sharon's medical condition was iatrogenic - that is, induced by treatment of physicians, as it was likely that the blood-thinning medicine Sharon was receiving had caused the severe brain bleeding."
 
According to the doctor, "Clearly, Sharon needed complete rest at least until the catheterization, as anyone who had undergone a stroke would. But it is hard to say that Sharon's refusal to rest caused the hemorrhaging."
 
Another senior doctor said he suspected "Sharon's treatment was partly faulty because he fell victim to the political-media spin intended to show the public he was back to work as usual."
 
"He paid a high price for this spin," the doctor said. "My concern is that non-professional considerations dictated the chain of medical events. The doctors took a dangerous but calculated risk when they gave him blood-thinning drugs at home instead of in the hospital under full supervision. But he should have been kept under constant supervision and certainly not allowed to return to work as usual."
 
 
 
Several questions have been asked this week regarding the standard of treatment Sharon has received: How much time elapsed from the moment Sharon told his son, Gilad, he wasn't feeling well to the arrival of his personal doctor at Sycamore Ranch? Why wasn't there a doctor at his side since the first stroke, especially on the eve of the catheterization? Why wasn't Sharon taken to the hospital by helicopter? Why was he taken to the distant hospital in Jerusalem, rather than to Be'er Sheva's Soroka Medical Center? To what extent did the treatment Sharon received after the first episode account for the hemorrhaging?
 
Sharon's aides said nobody thought he was in danger when he left his office for Sycamore Ranch on Wednesday afternoon. The paramedic of the Shin Bet security service's VIP protection unit, who was always at his side, accompanied him.
 
According to the initial plan, a doctor was to be with him after the catheterization, when he returned to convalesce at the ranch.
 
Since his release from Hadassah on December 20, after the first incident, Sharon was frequently examined by his personal physician, Dr. Shlomo Segev, who also administered his blood tests. Sharon did not complain of pain or feeling bad.
 
The chief cardiologist at Hadassah, Professor Haim Lotan, who was supposed to perform the catheterization, visited his office on Tuesday. Sharon received two Claxon shots a day intended to thin his blood and prevent blood clots and a recurrent stroke. He received the last shot on Wednesday morning, so that its effect would wear off before the heart procedure.
 
When Sharon felt unwell on Wednesday, his personal physician was called in from the center of the country. According to one version, he arrived at the ranch just as Sharon was being put into an ambulance, and joined him on the trip. According to another version, he met the convoy at the Masmia junction on the way to Jerusalem.
 
Sharon's aides, who pieced the event together, said Sharon did not want to be taken to hospital. He said he was due at Hadassah for the procedure the next morning anyway. Apparently, his son, Gilad, and the Shin Bet paramedic convinced him to go anyway. Even when in the ambulance, he told Segev he wanted to turn around and go the following morning.
 
Segev, who refused to comment Thursday, was under the impression that Sharon had suffered another stroke, which was worse than the first one. He decided to proceed to the hospital in the ambulance rather than scramble a helicopter. He feared that the movement of the helicopter would harm Sharon more than a few more minutes in the car.
 
Apparently, Segev was the one who decided to take Sharon to Hadassah rather than to the closer Soroka center. The trip to the hospital took 55 minutes, during which Sharon's condition deteriorated.
 
Doctors asked why Sharon wasn't required to stay in his Jerusalem residence instead of the ranch, at least while he was being treated with Claxon and until the procedure to mend the hole in his heart had been performed. Why wasn't a senior doctor at his side at all times, one who could have administered immediate treatment when the deterioration began?
 
Some of the questions suggest that Sharon and his aides' desire to show that the prime minister had returned swiftly to his daily routine resulted in inadequate treatment and supervision.
 
The senior doctors asked why Sharon's physicians had not insisted that he take a significant rest after the first stroke, as they would have done with any other patient. They asked to what extent political and media considerations were involved. They also asked why the catheterization was not performed earlier.
 
Other questions refer to why it took about two hours from the time Sharon felt unwell at his ranch to the time he arrived at the hospital emergency room at about 11 P.M., and why he wasn't taken to Soroka for preliminary treatment at least.


Sharon's Stroke Raises Medical Questions
By AMY TEIBEL
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 5, 2006; 4:33 PM

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke in the back of an ambulance while on an hour long trip to a Jerusalem hospital, raising a host of questions about his treatment.

Why wasn't he flown to the hospital or at least driven to one closer to his home? Did doctors take an unnecessary risk by treating him with blood thinners after he had a mild stroke two weeks ago? Did they wait too long to schedule a heart procedure designed to prevent another stroke?

And perhaps most important: Could political pressures have colored his treatment?


The stroke followed a mild stroke Sharon suffered Dec. 18 that was caused by a small blood clot. Doctors at Hadassah released him less than 48 hours after that stroke and gave the 77-year-old leader blood thinners to prevent future ones. His neurologist, Dr. Tamir Ben-Hur, said "chances are excellent that he won't have another one."

On Dec. 26, doctors said they found a small hole in Sharon's heart they said had led to his mild stroke. They planned to seal the hole in a procedure scheduled for Thursday to prevent another stroke.

But on Wednesday night, Sharon complained of feeling ill and his sons and a paramedic loaded him into an ambulance that had been stationed at his ranch in the Negev Desert since the stroke. The closer Soroka Medical Center in Bersheeba was told to prepare for his arrival, but he was taken instead on the hourlong trip to Hadassah.
Sharon was conscious for most of the drive, and didn't deteriorate badly until about 15 minutes before reaching the hospital.

Some Israelis questioned whether the outcome could have been different if had he been airlifted.

"If there is an ambulance that is available at the door to the house that can leave immediately and a helicopter that still takes time to arrive, it is preferable to get moving," Dr. Zeev Feldman, a neurosurgeon at Tel Hashomer Hospital outside Tel Aviv, told Channel 2 TV.

Surgery to stop the bleeding apparently had been complicated by blood thinners Sharon took following his initial stroke, and the medication may also have contributed to the severity of Wednesday's stroke.

   
There you have it in a nutshell. The prime minister of a modern nation suffers a stroke and is released from hospital in two days, unsupervised by a doctor. Though he has a residence in Jerusalem, he chooses to reside on his ranch 100 miles away. When he feels ill 18 days later, he is trundled off to Jerusalem in a car, passing by a major hospital ten minutes away, so he may better enjoy a 75 minute ride to the hospital which misprescribed his original treatment. Of course, he should have been flown to hospital by helicopter, but here is the excuse why he wasn't.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3195358,00.html

Why wasn't Sharon airlifted to hospital?

According to initial explanations, ambulance left on way to Jerusalem hospital before proposal to use chopper was raised; doctor concerned carrying Sharon to helicopter would have worsened his condition due to the change in air pressure.
 
       Just last night I shared dinner with a group of visitors from the US. One of the party was a Colorado doctor who served in Viet Nam. He explained why the explanation was nonsense. "You fly at 300 feet following the landscape and there is no air pressure difference. When you medivac someone in Sharon's condition, you don't fly at 12,000 feet." That simple.
        Now, let us examine Sharon's last moments before being rushed to the hospital. He had two appointments at his ranch. The first was with Otniel Shendler, who is not part of any murder plot but provides an interesting digression. Shendler was managing director of the Yesha Council during the Gush Katif expulsion. Sharon had invited him to join his Kadima party. Shendler gave Sharon a gift. It was a book he co-authored with Yair Hirshfeld, one of the two negotiators of the Oslo Accord. Just another piece of evidence that the Yesha Council worked hand in hand with the government to sell out Gush Katif.
        The next and final meeting was with Ehud Olmert. The following day, Sharon was supposed to have undergone minor heart surgery to repair a small hole in his heart. The operation was to last 3 hours and during that time, Sharon signed the papers appointing Olmert temporary prime minister.
         According to the newspaper Hashofar from the same week, Sharon was utterly opposed to Olmert as his successor and had, instead, chosen Moshe Katsav. And that may go a long way to explaining why Olmert was so concerned about receiving the temporary transfer of powers authorization from Sharon himself in the Negev Desert, when the very same papers could have been faxed to him in his Jerusalem office.
         Yediot Ahronot on Jan. 5, published a revealing account of the meeting.
  
          Olmert then entered the room. "Arik," he said, "There are a few matters I want to handle
          while I'm serving as temporary prime minister." Sharon retorted, "I thought so. I'll transfer
          my authority to you but I remind you it's only for three hours. Do you understand? You will
          deal with no one and take care of nothing without me."

          Within minutes of the stern warning to Olmert, Sharon was stricken and taken by the picturesque route to Jerusalem. And who was there to make sure things went as planned?:

Embedded in the lead story on< /" EUDORA="AUTOURL"www.israelnn.com> today:
"No politicians have been permitted to visit Sharon, but Shimon Peres was
to have been the first one, had Sharon not been taken to the operating room."

          
By January 11, Olmert had announced his intention of inviting Shimon Peres to sit in his
new government cabinet.
            It may be instructive to look at the three days leading to Sharon's demise. As my readers know, Sharon was a longtime agent of Henry Kissinger and the Council On Foreign Relations. Two days before his fall, Sharon agreed to put their plans into final action:

Sharon’s New Plan: Uproot Towns in Judea and Samaria in Exchange for American Compensation
12:06 Jan 02, '06 / 2 Tevet 5766

and in Hebrew:
 
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/027/938.html

(IsraelNN.com) The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv reports that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is planning on replacing the U.S. backed road map peace proposal with a new plan that would uproot Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria in exchange for American compensation.

Sharon reportedly would implement his new plan despite any deterioration in Israel’s security situation due to an upsurge of terrorism from the Palestinian Authority.
Details of Sharon’s new plan were reported by sources close to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

       The day before his demise, Sharon put the plan into action:

"Security Forces Handing Out Expulsion Order to Jews Living in Reclaimed Hevron Marketplace in 15 Minutes." Dateline= 08:35 Jan 03, '06. www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=95922.

       On the day his brain was drowning in blood, Sharon was implicated in a scandal that seemed guaranteed to fell him politically. Police had found evidence in the Schlaff family computers that Sharon had accepted a $3 million bribe from casinos owner Martin Schlaff via his frontman, Cyril Kern. We may safely assume that in return for the bribe, Sharon promised Schlaff a new money-laundering casino somewhere in his realm, but widely reported to be in the former Gush Katif. After he was struck down, the police began to reconsider their intentions:

Police said Sunday they would reevaluate continuing their investigation into bribery allegations against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon due to his health condition. Police said that it was still too early to tell if the case would be closed but that the possibility would be considered.
The investigation - dubbed the Cyril Kern loan affair - focuses on the nature of several money transfers made to the Sharon family by South African businessman Cyril Kern.
Police suspect that Kern served as a front for Martin Schlaff - an Austrian-Jewish businessman - and that the money was meant to serve as a bribe to the prime minister.

    
Apparently, a possible police reevaluation wasn't comforting enough for Cyril Kern, who on Jan. 8 flew all the way from South Africa to be at Sharon's side. From Maariv, Jan. 10:

       Ariel Sharon's friend Cyril Kern arrived in the country to be by him. Kern arrived at Hadassah
       hospital  two days ago and went to the seventh floor where the Prime Minister is interned.  
       Sharon family  sources explained that as soon as he heard Sharon was fighting for his life, he felt
       he had to be by his side... According to a State Comptroller's report, Sharon's son Gilad accepted
       an illegal 4.7 million shekel loan from Kern...Kern was not allowed to see the prime minister in his
       room but did meet with his sons for an update of the situation.

    
Would it be too forward to suggest that one of the messages Kern delivered to the Sharon boys was, "You keep your mouths shut, or else."

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    An observation I made on a number of radio interviews is how the world media is misreporting the so-called outpouring of grief for Sharon. On Jan. 8, Israel TV News reported that "dozens of Israelis had gathered at the Western Wall to say prayers for the prime minister." A whole, "dozens." Another media report also noted the striking lack of public grief for Sharon:

It is noteworthy that virtually every interview on public television and radio begins with the interviewee saying that he is "praying for Sharon's full recovery." Most interviewees and their interviewers even add that they "join the entire country" in praying for the Prime Minister. As news of Sharon's operation became known, Army Radio reported that "spontaneous prayer quorums" had sprouted up at the Western Wall to pray for Sharon. This appeared to be a case of wishful thinking, however, as web-photos of the holy site, backed up by eyewitness testimony, showed very sparse attendance at the Wall - except for several press photographers making a rare visit and photographing the worshipers from various angles.

     When I report on the wave of political assassinations in Israel, there is always initial widespread skepticism. But it's just a matter of time before the facts come out verifying my assertions. Recall my disbelief that Raful Eitan was swallowed by a giant wave. Now look at the flimsy coverup which took place last week. I'll let my correspondent speak for me. It seems Raful just never took a hint, as his wife explains in a Haaretz interview:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=raful&itemNo=666919


"And he died at the age of 75, one misty morning in August, suddenly, for no reason.

"That is perhaps the death that he could have wished for. This may be a secret, but Raful simply never knew how to swim. And he was almost deaf, but was vehemently opposed to wearing a hearing aide. It was simply contrary to his facade as a man. And what is a man? It's someone who overcomes life. And Raful did not hear the wave that sneaked up behind him, and he was dragged into a stormy sea. Did you expect Raful to wear a hearing aid? {shlomo comment: a widow's delusional grief}

"You know what? There were portents of his death.
He had already lost three cars during the last year and a half of his life, during which he was responsible for the building of the port. He drove with them in the mornings onto the pier in Ashdod, and they were swept away and hit by the waves. I'm sure that he died in the place where, had he been asked, he would have wanted.."

Barry? three cars taken by waves in 1 1/2 years? doesn't this imply several things:
(1) why would he park in a place where he already lost 3 cars (if it was the same place), especially considering
the stormy day?
(2) what kind of "parking place" could have this type of wave action? I lived near the shore and I never recall
any car being "swept by waves" and certainly not 3 in a year and half.
(3) this story is so convenient....needed hearing aid to hear wave "sneaking up on him" and could not swim...
(4) another part of article (
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/666919.html) his widow explains how upset he was about Sharon and the corruption overtaking this country...

    My new 2 hour CD or DVD, depending on your choice, could not have been released at a more significant time. It's called  ZION FIRST: THE VATICAN'S NEW CRUSADE FOR JERUSALEM.
    And the crusade is on:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3194646,00.html
http://www.arutzsheva.net/news.php3?id=95967
Vatican also wants Jerusalem?
Vatican envoy: Israel, Palestinians cannot be trusted to safeguard holy sites
Ahiya Raved
Israel cannot be trusted? The Vatican's legal advisor in Israel, David Jaeger, harshly criticized Israel’s policy regarding safeguarding Christian holy sites.
Speaking during an international conference at a Haifa University conference Tuesday, Jaeger said Jerusalem is an important city the fate of which SH
ould not be left in the hands of Israel and the Palestinians.

I watched the completed DVD in full for the first time yesterday. It is well more than a lecture by me. The second hour includes expert evidence by historian, Dr. Asher Edar and lots of pertinent questions by the audience. This DVD takes you inside a most important gathering in Jerusalem and you do feel you're there.

One technical problem. It was recorded on a PAL camera. The first copies, then, can be sent to Israel and Europe. But will they work in the US? In Israel, every DVD player, plays both systems. Is that the case in the US? Let me know if your player is multi-system. If there is a problem, an NTSC version will be made as well.

The DVD  is available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;

 


January 4, 2006 - STROKE

Bulletin:

So we will not be caught off guard as was the case in Yitzhak Rabin's murder, here is the background to Ariel Sharon's second stroke. Be prepared to think this time around:

The First Stroke

Dec. 19  Prime Minister Sharon shares drinks with Shimon Peres in the Knesset. Within half an hour, Sharon is driven to hospital unconscious. It took him a day before he could even spell his own name.
He was brought into the hospital by his bodyguard, Yoram Rubin. As a good chunk of Israel knows today, it was the Peres-Rubin team that murdered Yitzhak Rabin. When Rubin was shown on television news accompanying Sharon's stretcher, suspicions spread throughout the country.
             For two days, Sharon remained in hospital where he underwent intensive tests. We may ask, how did they miss the blood clot that struck Sharon barely two weeks later?
             The timing of Sharon's latest stroke is uncanny. It occurred one day after he was implicated in an enormous scandal. For those unaware of the background to the scandal, peruse the following:

http://www.barrychamish.com/html/wayne_owens.html

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22764/edition_id/456/format/html/displaystory.html

Recently, police have revealed the possibility that Kern served as a front man for Martin Schlaff, a known friend of Sharon’s and an Austrian-Jewish businessman heavily invested in Israel, and that he was the man who stood behind the “loan” in order to receive favors from the prime minister in the form of reopening the casino he owns in Jericho.

From www.inn.com  Jan. 4/05

 

POLICE : EVIDENCE Police Say There´s Evidence Linking Sharon to $3 Million Bribe

CHANNEL TEN REPORTING The police say they know of evidence linking PM Ariel Sharon to the receipt of a $3 million bribe. So reported Channel Ten tonight, causing a storm of reaction and calls for Sharon to resign.


CYRIL KERN & MARTIN SLEEP The investigation of the money trail to Sharon has been underway for over three years, and in fact was first publicized before the last national election, in 2003. The case is known as the Cyril Kern affair, named for the South African friend of Sharon who served as a conduit for the money. The source of the cash, however, has long been suspected to be Austrian millionaire and Jericho casino owner Martin Schlaf. The police say the money was used partially to help Sharon pay back campaign contributions that he had received illegally in 1999, and partly for the Sharon family's private use.

SCHLAF'S PARENTS LIVING IN ISRAEL Because of the suspicions hanging over him, Schlaf has refrained from visiting Israel of late. His brother James, however, came for a visit two weeks ago - and the police jumped at the opportunity. They raided his parents' home in Israel, and confiscated documents and two laptop computers. However, the police were not permitted to extricate the information on the computers without James' permission - which he refused to give.

SCHLAF'S BROTHER JAMES : SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR Schlaf's behavior aroused the suspicion of the police, which turned urgently to the courts and said that the computer files will show that the $3 million was in fact passed as a bribe to Ariel Sharon or his sons. The police therefore say that it is imperative for them to be allowed to enter the computers in order to extricate vital evidence in the Kern-Sharon affair.

James Schlaf, aware of the developments, has since given his permission for the police to peruse his computer files.

Schlaf's lawyer Atty. Navot Tel-Tzur said there was actually nothing new in the case "except for the fact that there is a laptop computer involved." He expressed anger at the leak.

END OF SHARON'S POLITICAL CAREER MK Roman Bronfman (Meretz): "If the police have evidence of Sharon's corruption, he must end his political career."

STROKE TWO

Dec. 21 - James Schlaff flies to Israel. He is immediately investigated by the police. 
    Jan. 3 - The police investigation is leaked to Channel 10 television reporter Baruch Kra. 
Jan. 4 - Sharon is in the midst of a career-ending scandal until the late evening when 
he is struck down by a life-threatening blood clot in his brain.


 

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:BwxcHW5FpqsJ:maarivintl.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Darticle%26articleID%3D8468+israelis+attend+schlaff+bat+mitzvah&hl=en&lr=&strip=1

Tonight, in Vienna, some of the heroes of this affair, and of the next one, will meet at the huge bat-mitzvah celebration of Martin Schlaff’s granddaughter. Dov Weisglass, Schlaff’s old friend and lawyer will be there. Haim Ramon, another close friend, will also attend. There will be many others. Some of them from amongst the political, social, and economic elite of Israel. Avigdor Lieberman, for example. No one is embarrassed by it. Some are even proud of it. In another time, another place, one could consider it collusion, coordinating testimonies. After all, Schlaff’s name has recently been tied in to that other affair: “the Cyril Kern affair”. Schlaff, in case you’ve forgotten, is one of the owners of the casino in Jericho.

       A live Sharon will have to face prosecution for the Kern-Schlaff bribes, even in Israel's thoroughly corrupt legal system. A dead Sharon will not have to face prosecution. And that would be just fine for the creme de la creme of the country's political leadership.
       The first impression is that Sharon survived the first attempt on his life. In reaction, James Schlaff immediately flew to Israel with evidence to bring the prime minister down in scandal. Somehow, the police were tipped off and immediately confiscated the evidence. Once the investigation was done, the results were leaked to the media. On the day of the second stroke, the scandal spread fast, threatening to engulf many of the country's political elite in deep corruption. By 11 PM, Sharon was bleeding heavily from the throat and his prognosis was a living or real death.


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     As my readers know, I spread my reports out by at least a week so you won't get sick of me. This was a special bulletin. More mail is coming. I am holding onto vital information which will have to wait for another, real report, this week.. And those wonderful people who ordered my new DVD: ZION FIRST - THE VATICAN'S NEW CRUSADE FOR JERUSALEM  will be receiving an update. At least here, the news is very good. The DVD was filmed beautifully and preparation has begun on final production.
     
 
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