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Since Nov. 19, a procession of ranking Shin Bet officials have testified in secret before the Shamgar Commission, named for the retired Supreme Court justice who heads it. The assassin penetrated security to shoot Rabin at point-blank range, so close, one witness said, that "Rabin felt the gun before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv...
...handlers as a good operative--was not truly blind and deaf to the plans, why did the security service fail to act? This key, and so far unanswered, question has spawned a host of conspiracy theories. Right-wing circles are calling Raviv an agent provocateur who purposefully incited anti-Rabin fanaticism. An alternate, even wilder theory holds that Shin Bet actually plotted a faked assassination attempt in order to smear opponents of the peace process. Under this scenario agents supposedly gave Amir a gun loaded with blanks, but his brother betrayed the Shin Bet by substituting real bullets...
...great man with an even greater dream has been taken away from us. Let us hope Yitzhak Rabin's vision of peace lives on and succeeds." YUVAL SHAMIR Los Angeles...
...PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN was a genius soldier [COVER STORIES, Nov. 13]. In diplomacy, he was an honorable peacemaker. His untimely demise is a loss not to the world alone but to all humanity. His death shows that peace is worth dying for if it will allow people to coexist in harmony, free from war. DANNY G. ABUCEJO Cerritos, California...
...ISRAELI'S KILLING RABIN is comparable to an American's gunning down someone essential to the birth and development of the assassin's home nation, someone like a James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. Rabin was more than a head of state: he devoted his life to establishing the state of Israel. BRAD MISLOW Decatur, Georgia...