Eskin's Folly

What a week for intelligence provocations! It began with the graves of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin being defaced by foes of the "disengagement" and ended with an IDF memorial service disrupted on national tv by these same foes, causing General Ehud Barak to call for the "disengagement" within five days. Of the first provocation, Prof. Wiseman of the Weizmann Institute discovered that the Rabin graves are surveilled 24 hours a day by two video cameras. The defacers were caught on camera and found to be Shabak agents. For this reason the police have stopped investigating and the media has ceased reporting the incident. Of the IDF ceremony, needless to say it was heavily guarded and the incident wouldn't have happened unless it was supposed to have happened.

While Bush and Sharon stage-managed a disagreement over the evacuation of settlements, Israel turned into a true-blue fascist state in the name of Gush Katif. Summing up the state of affairs, the following report was sent over the internet in Hebrew and atrocious English.

A young boy - aged 17, eleventh grade grader who took part in a demonstration against the Gaza withdrawal, has been abducted by Ramle police and his whereabouts are unknown. Only after intensive work was it discovered that he is still under arrest by the Ramle Police investigators . The police have not reported the arrest of this minor to his parents nor to the Public Defender as required by law.

The Chaneni organization helps people who are under political arrest .They report that 33 people, including 5 minors have been moved to a new section of Maasiyahu prison, of these, only a few were arrested at the anti- disengagement demonstration on the Ayalon Highway - all the rest were picked up in Tel Aviv because of their religious outward appearance. Among them were a religious soldier who was arrested walking in Tel Aviv as well and a ten year old religious boy on his way to his grandfather's house.

The attacks against anyone opposed to the lying government included me as well. At week's end I received a hand-delivered notice that I was being sued for 17,000 shekels by one Avigdor Eskin for sullying his good name by accusing him of being an intelligence agency provocateur. Let's briefly review some of Eskin's activities:

From the Washington Monthly:

“In October 1995, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, a group of Israelis led by Avigdor Eskin gathered outside the home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Wrapped in prayer shawls, they intoned the ancient Aramaic chant Pulsa da-Nura ('Lashes of Fire'), a Kabbalistic curse: 'I deliver to you, the angels of wrath and ire, Yitzhak, the son of Rosa Rabin, that you may smother him and the specter of him, and cast him into bed, and dry up his wealth, and plague his thoughts, and scatter his mind that he may be steadily diminished until he reaches his death. Put to death the cursed Yitzhak. May be damned, damned, damned!' After Rabin's assassination one month later - as Israel and the world mourned a great statesman - Eskin boasted of his prowess on Israeli television. The curse worked.”

Avigdor Eskin's 'Pork-Related Crimes'

May 28, 1997 - Israel -- The man who put a curse on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin a month before he was assassinated was convicted in an Israeli court on Wednesday of violating the Prevention of Terrorism Act, a court spokesman said. "He was convicted under...the Prevention of Terrorism Act," spokesman Moshe Gorali told Reuters. "The conviction relates to the interview he gave on television about the pulsa denura (curse) succeeding." Gorali said the section of the act violated was that against encouraging violence. Avigdor Eskin, according to local news reports at the time, stood outside Rabin's house on the eve of the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur in 1995 and cursed Rabin with the ancient curse of pulsa denura -- Aramaic for "lashes of fire." The curse Eskin put on Rabin read in part: "And on him, Yitzhak, son of Rosa, known as Rabin, we have permission...to demand from angels of destruction that they take a sword to this wicked man...to kill him...for handing over the Land of Israel to our enemies." He said the curse generally worked within 30 days. Gorali said Eskin would be sentenced next week. The Justice Ministry said he could receive a maximum sentence of six years.

February 6, 1998 - Israel -- Israeli extremist Avigdor Eskin was released on bail last week by a decision of an Israeli court. Eskin, who was accused of planning to throw the head of a pig wrapped in pages of the Quran inside al-Aqsa mosque, made bail of NIS500,000 on January 21, 1998.

October 18, 1999 - Israel -- A Jewish extremist was convicted last Tuesday of placing a pig's head on the Muslim grave of 1930s Palestinian nationalist fighter Izz el-Deen al-Qassam. Qassam was a revolutionary Muslim cleric and an inspiration to the militant wing of the present-day Islamic group Hamas, which is opposed to the Palestinian peace movement with Israel. The Jerusalem District Court, however, found insufficient evidence that the defendant, Avigdor Eskin, was guilty of conspiring to catapult a pig's head into Islam's third holiest shrine atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Pigs are considered "unclean" by both Judaism and Islam. No date has been set for sentencing, but prosecutors will allegedly ask that Eskin serve jail time for his pork-related crimes.

November 19, 1999 - Israel -- An Israeli court sentenced a Jewish extremist to 2-1/2 years in jail for placing a pig's head on the grave of a Palestinian nationalist. The court last week also gave Avigdor Eskin an 18-month suspended sentence for conspiring to torch offices belonging to Israeli peace activists. Eskin was cleared of charges of plotting to catapult a pig's head onto the Temple Mount. On Friday, November 12, Avigdor Eskin was sentenced to two years in jail for "orchestrating" the placing of a pig's head on the grave of Issidin El Kassam.

And this is only a sample of Eskin's activities. Let us not forget the following:

• It was Eskin's protege, Tatiana Suskind who was convicted of distributing a drawing of Muhamed having relations with a pig, in Hebron.
• Another Eskin cohort, one Larissa Tremvobler (mistakenly written Trimbobler), put an end to her marriage with its four children, to become engaged to that misunderstood hero, Yigal Amir. Eskin was the proud matchmaker.
• On the occasion of Amir's 30th birthday, Eskin thoughtfully brought a birthday cake to Beersheva prison. When a taxi driver was told who it was for, a fist-fight ensued with Eskin on national tv.
• And Eskin leads an annual pilgrimage to the grave of Baruch Goldstein, wrongly accused of initiating a massacre of Arabs in Hebron.

Prison authority rabbi's life threatened by 'Friends of Yigal Amir'

Amir attended the hearing as did Trimbobler, his father, Shlomo, a brother and supporters including Avigdor Eskin. Amir was not allowed to speak to reporters, who were ordered to keep at arm's length from him. His father told reporters that his son should be allowed to marry Trimbobler. "If they wanted to put him to death, they should have done so," he said. "If they allowed him to live, then they should let him live."

Those of us who have actually researched the subjects, know Amir and Goldstein were patsies, framed by the Shabak's Jewish Department. Every act of Eskin's serves the Shabak by reinforcing Amir and Goldstein's guilt in the public mind. Further, his stunts lead the public to believe that the Right justify assassinations and massacres. This has the effect of implanting the message that only a crazed minority opposes the government's diplomacy, including the Gush Katif surrender.

Eskin serves the interests of the government and the Shabak beautifully.

And I'm hardly the only one who thinks so. I did a quick internet search and discovered that many and varied are those who consider Eskin an intelligence operative. The first item the search came up with was from an ignorant source, known as the EIR.

"In 1986, EIR published a detailed dossier on Eskin, a young Soviet intelligence agent, who could boast of service for the KGB, Mossad, and several U.S. agencies."

But things improved quickly. Look what Yitzhak Rabin's own daughter had to say:

NOVEMBER, 1999, HA'OLAM HA'ISHAH ("WOMAN'S WORLD") MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH M.K. DALIA RABIN-PELOSOFF, DAUGHTER OF YITZHAK RABIN

by Sarit Yishai-Levi

“And when I hear that a person like Avigdor Eskin, whom I have been closely following ever since the assassination, was run by the G.S.S. (General Security Services), this arouses in me thoughts and wondering, and things arise. Such things arouse the doubt in me again and again.”

Recall, Dahlia Rabin-Pelosoff was the Deputy Minister of Security at the time of the interview. At the time, she was following Eskin's activities closely. So who did she hear that Eskin was run by the Shabak from? Certainly not me.

Now look at the next two items to understand just how widespread the suspicions against Eskin are. The first quote is from the far-left newspaper Haaretz. It is followed by a quote from the opposing camp, the Kahane Chai site.

Truly, a very odd couple

"He is the man who cast a curse on Yitzhak Rabin. She is a leftist, supporter of the rights of Palestinians."
By Lily Galili Friday, March 13, 1998

"Many in the settlement community avidly believe that Eskin is a Shin Bet agent . . . Others in the same camp believe that Eskin is none other than a KGB agent. . . they had a need to find a scapegoat. . . Avishai Raviv, a small and insignificant provocateur . . ."

flowers: [forum post here]
Article has a statement from Kahane Chai ("Kahane Lives"), and a quote from the activist Itamar Ben-Gvir.

First, it's Ben Gvir... And I think it's clear to anyone who follows Israeli press that he is a Shabak agent provocateur or just plain idiot. Possibly both. He has broken the law so many times, has a new trial each month, and every time he is let out on a technicality... I know several Americans that moved in JDL and Kach circles and they are all 100% sure that he is a Shabak provocateur. He is very similar to Avigdor Eskin, or Avishai Raviv both in his actions, and in the way he never gets charged... Also, it is very telling that they always do provocations, that are at best misdemeanors, make a lot of noise in the media, but never does real crimes.

The main argument used to prove Eskin's sincerity is that he has sat in prison for his activities. As one who has been reporting on these provocations for a decade, I can assure all that this argument is worthless. To maintain their covers, provocateurs will be rewarded later for doing time. I know of two members of the same family, both working for the Shabak, who sat in prison for their alleged activities on behalf of the Yemenite children.

What matters are the facts. Eskin's provocations are a disaster for the Israeli Right. However, they are a blessing for the "peace" camp. And his intelligence ties were long ago traced by my researchers, ie:

Hello Barry,
There has been a recent important development in this. Avigdor Eskin has been elected (in absentia) as a member of Political Council (leadership) of 'Eurasia' Movement based in Moscow, Russia. The Eurasia socio-political movement is financed and structurally supported by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and Russian Presidential Administration. Although it is officially a 'patriotic', 'neo-eurasian', 'anti-American' organization, it serves the purpose of NWO and is paid by its emissaries in Russia (basically, it is a pro-NWO party which hides behind a pseudo-patriotic facade). The official organizer is talented Russian geopolitician and political philosopher Alexander Dugin. It seems they are trying to use Eskin and his cohorts to 'smooth' the relations between pro-Western Russian elite (Putin, etc.), criminal oligarchs (Deripaska, Abramovich, Chubais, etc.) with Israeli business elite and political circles. (It is known that Eskin has connections with Israeli lobby in Washington, with the late Republican Senator Jesse Helms, and with head of Committee on International Relations of Russian State Duma Dmitrii Rogozin, and has been used to make contact between Russian and American administrations.)

What An Opportunity

I contacted two attorneys; Dov, my longtime legal advisor from Raanana, and Ram, one of the country's leading libel experts, who I had sought out in an attempt to sue Daniel Pipes. Both came to an initial conclusion; journalists in Israel are protected from libel suits in all but the most extreme cases. This is not one of them. Second, Eskin's reputation is so sullied that I could not have damaged it more. Both suggested I request that the suit be thrown out of court.

But then Dov had a brainstorm.

"There is another option. You could choose to prove that Eskin is a provocateur. For that you would have to request a change of venue from small claims court to civil court where complicated cases are heard. There you would be permitted to defend yourself by proving a pattern of crimes. That would mean showing that the Shabak does employ agents like Eskin to perform the same kinds of dirty tricks Eskin did. By so showing, you would prove that you had every right to suspect Eskin of being an agent provocateur. This Eskin may have given you a way to reopen the Rabin murder in court."

I asked Ram if the idea is practical.

"I'd have to look for precedents but, on the surface, it's a legitimate defence. Ideally, you would want Peres or Carmi Gillon to sue you, but Eskin may have let you in through the back door. Now a lot depends on what the judge permits, but if we went down that road we could subpoena: "

• Avishai Raviv to testify about his provocations.
• Chezi Kalo, head of the Jewish Department of the Shabak while Raviv was at work.
• Eitan Oren, the tv director who filmed staged provocations.
• Various members of Eyal, including Yigal Amir, who participated in the provocations.
• Judge Meir Shamgar, who investigated the Shabak's use of dirty tricks.

Ram continued: "The Shabak's policy is not to reveal the names of its agents. So it's your word against his whether he was acting on their behalf. But you have the right to defend yourself by proving that the Shabak did employ agents to commit outrages exactly like those of Eskin. And one of those outrages led to Rabin's murder."

Here are my options. Fight Eskin in small claims court. I could lose or the case could be thrown out. If I lost, I'd use the precedent to sue a real slanderer I know of the same way to cover the loss.

Or I could fight the case in civil court with the aim of bringing justice to all those victimized by the provocations of the Shabak, including Yitzhak Rabin. That, I couldn't possibly afford and whoever told Eskin to sue me knows it.

Eskin is a millionaire, I, putting it mildly, am not. If I take the second road, I'd need donations to a legal fund.

Please drop me a note and let me know if you'd support a legal action that could finally expose the criminals who are wrecking Israel. I'll make my decision based on the response.

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It has now been confirmed. Rabin's murderer Yoram Rubin, is returning from Washington to be Sharon's personal bodyguard. I'm sure Sharon got the hint.

I saw Moshe Feiglin this week. He had just returned from Toronto where the audience grilled him with questions I suggested concerning his decision to join the Likud. I asked him, "What did you answer?" He replied, "You wouldn't want to know." I added, "Just know that I believe we are fighting for the exact goal." He smiled, gave me a warm handshake and moved on.

If you want to know the kind of lying rabbi, David Rosen of Meimad is, read the following: Rabbi David Rosen

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