SHTINKERS

 

Most of you know Barry Chamish as a conspiracy theory enthusiast with a former career as UFO watcher. I’ve heard him speak once, several years ago, and have maintained a loose email connection over the years. Like all conspiracy nuts, Barry dares to take that extra step the rest of us are oh so reluctant to take. But he’s an intelligent, sensitive man, who often seems deeply saddened by the evil he purports to expose. The following essay is angry, sad and touching. I chose to excerpt a lightly edited version of its first part. For the rest kindly go to Barry’s own website, www.barrychamish.com to subscribe to his email list.

 

The Jewish Department of the Shabak, or GSS, Israel’s internal security apparatus, is a vestige of Stalinism used to repress anti-government voices. It should not be confused with a democratic institution.

Yori Yanover

 

CONGRATULATIONS SHABAK / by Barry Chamish

Well done Shabak! You fine men of Israel's internal secret services outdid yourselves last week. By June 26/05, you had secured your Gush Katif expulsion. By turning the brave traffic stoppages against the protesters, you took the air out of their tires. Sure, you had to play dirty and spread some oil and bent nails on the road opposite Kfar Chabad. So what if no vehicle actually ran over them. Getting the media to report 20 flat tires was as good as actually causing them.

And give your agent Itamar Ben Gvir his credit. His performance at the hotel was superb. Writing Mohammed Is A Pig so all the Arabs could see it on the wall was one of Avigdor Eskin's tried and true tricks and this time it worked better than ever. You managed to get a race riot broadcast around the world.

So what if a hundred voices, including Knesset member Arieh Eldad, go on TV and accuse Ben Gvir of ruining the anti-expulsion movement for the Shabak! The settlers will welcome him and his gang wherever he goes to destroy their lives. And the media will follow orders and make him the real spokesman for the protesters.

You guys are brilliant. And look at the timing! You raid the hotel and turn Gush Katif into a closed military zone the day before school lets out when tens of thousands of demonstrators were on the way.

And what's so great about you is you don't care if anyone knows you're behind the collapse of the protests. Heck, you even send your former chief, Ami Ayalon to the streets to hand out pro-withdrawal strips of blue cloth and meet openly with the PLO enemy.

But no one in anyone's wildest imagination would believe that you actually permitted a long interview in Makor Rishon with the man behind the ruthless skullduggery of the past Oslo decade.

Of Makor Rishon, ever since I exposed its takeover by Ronald Lauder of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR), they have been most unkind to me. Two articles in the past three weeks have tried to diminish my work. And we all know, its editorial direction has not so subtly shifted away from the Conservative Right towards the government's position on most central issues. But to actually give a voice to Yitzhak Fantik, the former head of the murderous Jewish Department of the Shabak in Makor Rishon was such a gutsy stroke!

Sure, he came off as a mad dog, bragging about all the squealers and snitches he had planted throughout the religious communities of the country. So the article appears to be an expose. But you know what you're doing. This interview humanized the crimes and lies of the Shabak and justified both in the eyes of many of the toughest readership in the country.

And you are now so totally in control of the situation, you even tell all the people Fantick betrayed, imprisoned and ruined where to find him. If you're in the mood for some homemade herring, every Friday afternoon you will find Fantik preparing it at Tzakho's restaurant in Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem.

We all gotta’ hand it to you the way you neutralized still another threat to expose the real Rabin murder. You had a dilemma last April. A daring new site www.yigalamir.com made its debut on the internet in Hebrew, chock full of documents I had gathered. It was receiving much publicity and thousands of hits a day. So you put up an alternative site www.yigalamir.co.il within which, the Amir family confesses to everything you ordered them to. Now the effect of the original site is minimal.

A stunning achievement.

Boy, you got 'em comin' and goin'! Makor Rishon's CFR boss Lauder and his local agent Shimon Ben Tzvi bought the religious TV station Tchelet and even a secular one, Channel Ten as the cherry on the cake. But that's not enough for you. No sirree. So how did you recruit, Nati Koffer, Amos Barnea and Shei Binyamini -- editors of a month old weekly sheet advocating what they call "Realistic Religious Zionism”? In realistic terms, of course, meaning accepting the "disengagement!"

Shabak, you are the best! In just three days you turned the Israeli public around. From a majority rejecting the pullout, after a few days of staged violence, now 62% want it. You've got things so haywire, that after the hotel operation, the leaders of Gush Katif thanked the police for ridding them of the pests. You actually got the Gush Katif leaders to thank their future executioners. We shiver at the artistry behind it all. And with the Yesha Council leadership thoroughly in Establishment pockets, now there is no leadership left. We salute you in awe!

But your greatest achievement by far is so wearing down the will of the soon-to-be homeless, that they will not fight as dirty as you. And you know they'll have to if they are to overcome the perfidious demons that you are.