NEW EVIDENCE ON BARUCH GOLDSTEIN'S MURDER
by
Barry Chamish
November 18, 2009
For the past five years, various people have told
me that Jewish worshippers in the Cave of the Patriarchs heard Dr.
Baruch Goldstein banging on the door begging someone to open it. Either
because they couldn't or wouldn't, no one opened the door. Instead they
heard Goldstein's screams as he was, we were told, bludgeoned to death.
The government would not allow an autopsy to be performed on Dr. Goldstein's body, even when his wife requested it. This week I found out why. An informant gave me the phone number of Itzhak Dov Reinitz of the Jerusalem burial society which organized Dr. Goldstein's funeral. He added, he also knows about the Rabin bodyguard who was buried on the night of the assassination. Of the bodyguard, Reinitz told me, "I have no personal information. I just know that on the day after the assassination there was talk throughout the burial society of a bodyguard buried the night before...But Goldstein was something I'll never forget. His body came in a bag in tiny pieces. He was decapitated, his limbs were torn off, his body was butchered inside and out." I asked what is needed to decapitate a body. He replied that a sharp heavy instrument like an ax or butcher's knife was used. Now what was an ax doing inside the mosque where worshippers must pass through military inspectors and metal detectors? The government's Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry Into The Hebron Massacre concluded that Goldstein was bludgeoned to death by iron bars, strangely, handed out by someone who found them in a storage closet. Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies and more Lies, Lies, Lies. I spoke to the man who prepared what was left of Goldstein's body for burial. Dr. Goldstein was axed and butchered to death. And the government must be lying because under honest circumstances, axes and butcher knives would never have entered the mosque. Another informant, whose information has not been verified, knows the true circumstances of the murder of Military Intelligence/Shabak Colonel Yehuda Edri last month. She insists he did not die on the spot as we were told, but perished in hospital a few days later. And apparently, the reports of his bodyguard being severely wounded were highly exaggerated. * Dr. Linda Efroni writes in the highly influential but staid Israeli business daily, Globes: "Besides being head of the Shabak, we must recall that Gillon was a central figure in the massacre at the Cave Of The Patriarchs. It was decided that the Shabak fell asleep at the wheel in this case but, maybe not. In either case, the investigating committee headed by then Supreme Court President, Meir Shamgar, cleaned up Gillon's responsibility... "Once out of service, Gillon was taken care of with a job as chairman of the Peres Center For Peace at a salary equal to that of a bank CEO. There is no more preventing discussion of the dangerous connection between Peres and the government. As Foreign Minister today, Peres continues to take care of Gillon. Why did he appoint this klutz with no diplomatic background and a long history of failure to be the Danish ambassador? And why does the government back this disastrous appointment, one which endangers Israel's reputation in Europe? It is more than obvious that Gillon has the information to grasp quite a few politicians by their tender parts." At last, the mainstream media has raised Gillon's role in the Hebron massacre and the likelihood that he is blackmailing Peres and other politicians over the truth of the slaughter. The Israeli public was informed that an extremist, Dr. Baruch Goldstein entered the mosque in Hebron's Cave Of The Patriarchs alone and massacred 51 Arab worshippers. But that is not the conclusion one would reach after reading the records of the Shamgar Commission's inquiry into the event. For one thing, no witness, Arab or Jew saw a lone shooter in the mosque. But that's just the start. The three soldiers guarding the entrance to the Cave complex testified that Goldstein entered at 4:45 AM carrying an M-16. Shamgar concluded that Goldstein arrived at 5:20, carrying a Glilon assault rifle. Goldstein entered the mosque with two soldiers. They threw grenades and shot into the crowd, then escaped the mosque, locking the door behind them, thus trapping Goldstein inside against the panicked mob. At this point, an Arab on the commission, Judge Zuabi noted, "Then there was a conspiracy. Goldstein couldn't have locked the door from the outside if he was inside. He would have needed help for that." There is much more. Readers are advised to order the full commission protocols from the Ministry of Justice. The sum total of eye-witness testimonies prove that Dr. Goldstein was a patsy who did not murder anyone. But a patsy for who? Carmi Gillon was head of the Jewish Department of the Shabak, based in Hebron, at the time yet somehow was not called on by Shamgar's commission to testify. That was easily arranged since Gillon's brother Ilan was the court registrar who decided on the witness list. Thanks to Peres' insane decision to appoint Gillon the Danish ambassador, even and finally, Gillon's suspected role as planner and executioner of the Hebron massacre is emerging in the mainstream Israeli press. * For the past 12 days, I have been selling my books at the Hebrew Book Fair held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. And you know what that means, right? I met the broad public by the thousands and whenever that happens, people pass on testimonies. At past fairs, the information has mostly centered on the Rabin murder. This year saw a surprising change. More people wanted to talk about Baruch Goldstein, and an unexpected number bought my book Israel Betrayed for its Goldstein chapter. We interrupt the narrative with a plug. Israel Betrayed is published in America by Counting Coup Press: info@countingcouppress.com or in Israel by calling 1 800 RABINY. Good we got that out of the way early. It's practically the only way I support this research. On Thursday night, the second last fair day, a gentleman passed by my booth, looked very briefly at the books and said, "You got Goldstein right. I know from personal experience," then he walked away. I called to him, "What do you mean? Can we talk?" But he kept on walking. He returned ten minutes later and asked me to step away from the booth. We sat alone on the steps of the Museum. "You've met Bernard Schechter I take it?" I had, a few years ago at another book fair. He was fairly upfront with me. Shechter was the American-born head of the Israel Police ballistics laboratory at the time of the Rabin murder. His honest testimony, written and verbal, has helped prove conclusively that the bullets which struck down Yitzhak Rabin did not come from Yigal Amir's gun. "I was the technician who worked with Bernie on Goldstein's rifle. Did you ever talk to him about that?" In fact, I didn't know. The Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry into the Hebron Massacre had called other police ballistics experts to testify, but I don't recall Schechter giving testimony. "Well, he won't volunteer telling what he knows. I remember calling his department in '96 and asking for him. They said he retired. I couldn't believe that, he loved his work. I'll bet Goldstein had a lot to do with that?" "What do you mean?" "I was in the lab, I saw. The bullets we were given didn't match Goldstein's rifle. None of them." "So he didn't do the killing?" "Either that or we examined someone else's rifle." I won't reveal the man's name. When the atmosphere is right, I'm sure he'll give his testimony openly after a persuasive phone call or two. And if you think this eye-witness testimony is something, wait till the end of this section. The booth next to mine was womanned by a sweet 30'sish lady selling her book of children's poems. She was not acquainted with the view of my books, couldn't believe it but was stuck listening to my explanations to hundreds of buyers over almost two weeks. She will never be the same again. I noticed on the last night of the fair that she was reading Israel Betrayed intently. The fair had just closed at midnight last Saturday and the following took place in this order. At 12:01, a cute teenaged girl came up to the table and said, "I'm Shlomo Edelstein's daughter. Do you really think my father is a CIA agent?" I was taken aback. I had never associated him with the CIA but certainly had grave suspicions about his conduct on the morning of the Hebron Massacre. I had read the protocols of Shamgar's Hebron investigation, collected media reports and received serious information from an unrecognized journalist named Avraham Yosef. After that I wrote a two-part article called, Was Baruch Goldstein Completely Innocent, which became a chapter of Israel Betrayed. This article has had an endearing effect, and it is becoming looming truth in some circles. This was aided greatly in the past year when journalist Adir Zik, who had covered the Shamgar Commission, verified my findings and added a few of his own in the newspaper Hatzofe and over the radio via his Arutz Sheva program. Here is what I wrote about the father of the smiling girl across from my display table: * The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) originally announced that Goldstein had arrived in uniform at the mosque in his civilian Subaru. The Shamgar Commission heard very different evidence. Dr. Goldstein's wife Miriam was surprised to discover a note informing her that Baruch was called to reserve duty. She phoned the IDF duty commander for Kiryat Araba, Shlomo Edelstein to ask if he knew where her husband was. He said he didn't. And yet, evidence presented at the Shamgar Commission proved that Goldstein arrived in Edelstein's IDF jeep. From The Jerusalem Post, April 4, 1995: "Goldstein's wife, meanwhile was trying to reach her husband. Shortly after 5 AM she called Shlomo Edelstein, who was on reserve duty at the telecommunications center. Edelstein, swinging nervously on his swivel chair, told the commission he had spoken to Goldstein and told Ungar to pick him up. A short while later, Miriam Goldstein called, asking if he could help track down her husband. 'I told her he was at the clinic and tried calling him on the communications network. I asked her if everything was fine and she said it was.' But he admitted that later he had told her Goldstein might be at the Cave praying. Miriam said her husband 'did not go there to pray.' "Members of the commission had a surprise for Edelstein. According to records of the calls to the center, obtained from the phone company, Miriam Goldstein had called him twice. 'If she did, I don't remember,' an uncomfortable Edelstein said." After which, I wrote: ***Suspect number two, Shlomo Edelstein. In another Post Article, it is reported that Goldstein once belonged to a prayer quorum in the Machpela Cave but quit it over a year before. Since then, as Miriam Goldstein supposedly said to Edelstein, her husband "DID NOT GO THERE TO PRAY." So why did Edelstein tell her he was going there? And why did other soldiers testify that Goldstein was a regular worshiper at the Machpela Cave? The commission trapped Edelstein in his own lies with phone company records. What was he covering up and why?*** I said to the teenaged religious girl, "Why do you think your father told Miriam Goldstein that her husband was praying at the Cave Of The Patriarchs where the massacre took place, when his wife said he had stopped praying there?" "He told me he was trying to console her. He really didn't know." "Why did your father forget her second call to him?" "He was busy, so he forgot." "He's manning the phones at 4 AM and you think he was too busy to remember the call? Do you know that Goldstein met a high-ranking intelligence officer named Shlomo Mofaz, brother of our Chief-Of-Staff on the day before the massacre?" "I know Shlomo, what about it?" "I don't know but maybe your father does. Ask him." "May I have a copy of Israel Betrayed to show him?" I hesitated and then handed one over. Far better that her father considers his own testimonies in print. Maybe they'll stimulate him to talk about what he's holding inside. Back to the booth next door at 12:16. The poetess says, " I attended the Shamgar Hebron hearings." It seemed totally out of character. "Why?" I asked. "My brother-in-law is Rotem Revivi," she replied. Here's what I wrote about him: From The Jerusalem Post, March 28, 1995: "Yosef, Drori and a third soldier, Erez Elimelech also all testified that they had seen Goldstein enter with an M-16. This contradicted the testimony of Lt. Rotem Revivi, the only soldier inside the cave when the massacre took place. Revivi said Goldstein had entered with a Glilon - the type of rifle from which the massacre bullets were actually shot. "In response to questions from commission members, Yosef and Drori both said that one person had entered with a Glilon that morning - a settler they didn't recognize who arrived shortly after Goldstein. The arrival of a settler they didn't recognize was unusual, the two said, since they knew all the regulars at the early prayer service. "Revivi also said Goldstein entered the cave at about 5:20: the other three put the time around 4:45...Commission member Judge Ahmed Zuabi commented if Revivi's assertion that Goldstein could not have used the main entrance without seeing him is true, it raises the possibility that Goldstein had assistance. One of the other entrances into the Yitzhak Hall is from Avraham Hall...Since this door was bolted from the Jewish side after the massacre, Zuabi noted, if Goldstein used this entrance, someone must have bolted it behind him." I responded: ***If I had to start naming suspects in the conspiracy or coverup, I would start with Lieut. Rotem Revivi, who backed the government's case that Goldstein carried a Galil rifle and arrived at 5:20, against those of three other soldiers who testified that Goldstein BROUGHT AN M-16 INTO THE CAVE OF THE MACHPELA 45 MINUTES BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT SAID HE ARRIVED. I will stress the most important fact of all, the IDF and Shamgar concluded that the massacre was caused by a Galil rifle not an M-16, yet three soldiers on duty testified that Goldstein carried an M-16. Judge Zuaabi has finally awoken and publicly expressed his belief that a conspiracy was possible. Revivi testified that Goldstein did not pass by his post and enter the prayer hall through the main entrance. That leaves two other doors but only one on the Jewish side of the Cave where Goldstein was free to roam. Since it was found bolted from the Jewish side after the massacre, if Goldstein entered through it, someone else locked him into the prayer hall afterward.*** I said to my new poetess friend, "Next time you're at dinner, please ask your brother-in-law why of four soldiers on duty, he was the only one who saw Goldstein enter the hall at the time and with the rifle that Shamgar wanted." "I've asked him things like that. He told me he testified truthfully. That's what he saw." "Then ask yourself how that could be. How could three soldiers all get one time and rifle and your brother-in-law another? Unless there was a second Goldstein, somebody has to be lying." She saw the logic, I could tell. She said, "So maybe everyone was fooled." A very real possibility that explains away the contradictory testimonies of Edelstein and Revivi. Such an explanation might explain the peculiar actions of Kach leader Noam Federman. He has been at the forefront of besmirching me, mainly over my Goldstein research. Knowing nothing of the facts, seemingly anyway, he has loudly proclaimed the truth of Shamgar's version of the massacre and has declared Goldstein a hero for his mass murder. That has led me to conclude that his attitude is just too handy for the ruling class. Six weeks ago, the Shabak busted a new Jewish underground, based in Bat Ayin, which planned to blow up an Arab girl's school in East Jerusalem. Or so they told us. I don't believe it because, against all norms of democracy and morality, the core members of this group have not been allowed to see outsiders, including an attorney, for over six weeks. In near legal terminology, that is called extracting a confession by force. Federman was briefly arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting this underground. The day before the fair closed, he published a stinging recollection of his interrogation by the Shabak in the newspaper Makor Rishon. He called it, "It's The Same Old Shabak." On the surface, the Shabak must have recoiled from his bitter words against them. Yet look at what he writes: "Here are a few quotes from their interrogations: "On Rabbi Dov Lior: 'A little racist.' "On Rabbi Avi Runski: 'Our collaborator in Samaria.' "On Rabbi Yehuda Gilad: 'Simply an idiot, not worth working with.' "On Ivri Dan of Itamar: 'Too naive but still works well with us.' "On Rabbi Shlomo Aviner they cursed in a way I can't repeat.'" Now doesn't that serve the purposes of our corrupt establishment? By mixing the reactions, it appears that Runski and Dan are Shabak stool pigeons. It is a perfect formula for spreading division among the settlers. Could Federman be so dumb that he couldn't see it? Does he really believe Goldstein was the butcher the government wants him to be? Now consider the poet's brother-in-law or the pretty young religious girl's father. Could they all have been tricked into cooperation with murderous covert operations without their suspicions being raised? It seems incredible, but... And now, really exciting testimony. After a lecture at the home of attorney Dov Even Or, one of the audience members, who I was a bit furious at for contradicting my evidence in mid-lecture that Amir had no gunpowder on his hands, met me on the lawn outside to explain a few things. He, it turns out, was a high ranking investigator for the Israel Police Crime Laboratory. He apologized for interrupting my lecture but I hadn't got the facts all right. The police didn't look for gunpowder, rather trace elements left by the explosion of gunpowder like antimony and barium, which corroborate other ballistic evidence. That Amir had none of these on his hands does mean he couldn't have shot a live bullet but my explanation wasn't quite exact. Then he exploded his bombshell. "I was the ballistics investigator in the Yoav Kuriel suicide." Kuriel, was Rabin's bodyguard who the police and media declared committed suicide over his failure to save Rabin's life. I spoke with the man who prepared Kuriel's body for burial and he said there were seven bullet holes in his chest. A stubborn suicide. "I was called to a Ramat Gan apartment to investigate Kuriel's 'suicide.' I wasn't allowed to see the body but I know who did and you're welcome to see if they'll talk. I asked to be given the suicide gun for lab testing and the superior officer told me the gun was missing. I asked him, 'How does a gun used by a suicide victim disappear?' He wouldn't answer but we both knew it couldn't in a real suicide. You can't publish my name, just what I said. Some day when it's safe, it will all come out." **** A former Hebron resident, a lively lady, added information on the Shabak frameup of Baruch Goldstein, the innocent patsy for the Hebron massacre of 1994. "You should know that Baruch didn't go straight into Yitzhak Hall and shoot it up. First he stopped in Avraham Hall and told the Jewish worshipers there that he had met with a high-ranking IDF officer, Shlomo Mofaz the day before and he told him to prepare for an Arab massacre of Hebron's Jews. After that he left the hall and supposedly went on a shooting rampage. "The whole thing didn't make sense then and today it looks even more like Baruch was manipulated by Mofaz. If the IDF knew about an impending massacre, then it would have sent in troops to stop it, not warn Baruch that it was coming. More and more it looks like Mofaz was the mastermind of the massacre and Baruch the stooge." * 1. Kach Originally an honest movement of Jewish self-defence established by Rabbi Meir Kahane, it became so infiltrated and manipulated that the Rabbi's son Binyamin founded a counter movement called Kahane Chai which remains, as far as I can tell, untainted. Kach's major complaint against me is that I have done a pretty thorough job of proving that Baruch Goldstein was framed and did not commit the Hebron massacre of February, 1994. Kach wants Goldstein to be remembered as a mass-murdering hero. And that suits the "peace" camp and the Shabak's Jewish Department just fine. When called upon, this serves the noble task of painting all settlers as bloodthirsty savages. Kach is very proud of a book called Baruch HaGever, (Baruch The Hero), which portrays Goldstein as a vigilante who shot first to prevent a massacre of Hebron's Jews by the Arabs. Within this book is a touching section written by Shabak inciter Avishai Raviv. You can be darn sure that if this book did not have Shabak sanction, he would have never been permitted inclusion in it. And I am hardly alone in my suspicions that the massacre was a covert operation aimed at removing the Jews from Hebron. Have a look at the following two works: DID OR DID NOT DR. BARUCH GOLDSTEIN MASSACRE 29 ARABS? by Rabbi Dr. Chaim Simons © Copyright. Chaim Simons, 2003 http://www.geocities.com/ |
