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How complacent we acted after Peres was defeated in the presidential vote. One victory and people think the "peace" process is over. So, let's face reality. Peres will be back, probably as Foreign Minister and a terrified Barak must obey his Council On Foreign Relations masters and push through their war plan at any cost. As he told CNN, "If the Israeli people turn down our referendum, we'll find another way."

On the plus side, our strategy is having an effect, even if the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge it. Yesterday, I was at the butcher shop when the personal aide of a religious Knesset member walked in. With a huge smile he said, "You don't know the balagan you caused."

A month before the presidential vote, the unsung heroes of the Goldberg Family of Tel Aviv and Tsfat faxed my article "Peres Must Never Become Israel's President" to all 120 Knesset members. Within I listed Peres's crimes, ending with his organization of the Rabin murder with the operational cooperation of the French intelligence services. I was reliably informed that the faxes helped turn the vote.

Now we close in on the kill. We prove Peres's role in the murder and there is a way. So far, I have documented Peres's ties to the main assassination conspirators: Shabak chief Carmi Gillon, who Peres appointed to chair his peace center; Yoram Rubin, Rabin's bodyguard and shooter, who Peres appointed to head his bodyguard unit on the assassination eve, no doubt because of the fine job he did protecting Rabin; Peres's personal chauffeur Menachem Damti, who took Rabin on his last drive; and Jean Frydman, who paid for Rabin's final rally and helped organize its security.

This is very heady circumstantial evidence but there exists solid proof of Peres's hand in the murder...and it cost him the 1996 elections.

In the March 14, 1994 edition of the National Review is a three page article by Joel Bainerman and me called, The Peres Gambit. In it, we prove that Peres rigged the 1992 elections and here's how we found out.

A number of months earlier, Yehoshua Meiri, a journalist for the left wing newspaper Chadashot, had an article printed within called Beilin's Secret Journeys. Meiri claimed that in June, 1992, Yossi Beilin, then Shimon Peres's deputy, flew to Cairo to deliver a letter from Peres to Arafat. Peres offered the PLO a state if it would use its influence to shift Israeli Arab votes to the Labour Party or its allies in the next national elections. After three more Beilin trips to Cairo and the personal intervention of Secretary of State James Baker, Arafat agreed. The Arab parties won only four seats, compared to ten today, the rest of the Arab vote went to Labor and the Zionist far left. The PLO provided the difference in the vote which put Labour in power and the Oslo process was put in motion.

Joel and I met Meiri several times and he provided solid documentation, including powerful tapes he secretly recorded. The National Review checked our sources and we passed their scrutiny. Several months later, reporter Steve Rodan followed our lead and interviewed Meiri at length. Like us, he found Meiri entirely credible and his evidence airtight. The result was a series of scoops in the Jerusalem Post which verified Joel's and my findings. Peres had indeed rigged the 1992 elections and the PLO was allowed to determine the future of the Jewish state.

But in 1996, the tables were turned on Peres. Natan Gefen in his book Fatal Sting recounts how he took the smoking gun Rabin murder document, the surgeon's report proving Rabin was not shot twice in the back as our government insisted, but three times and once frontaly, to Likud MKs Ehud Barak and Dov Shilansky. Neither was interested and Shilansky told him, "We don't need the report, we've already fixed things up." Gefen concluded that the Likud had the proof and had already blackmailed Peres into throwing the upcoming elections.

Independently, I received confirmation of this seemingly fantastic claim. In April 1997, our internal security force, the Shabak organized a violent protest outside a speech I was to give about the Rabin murder at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A few days later, I received a call from Yaacov Mor, a self-admitted Shabak graduate who told me, "If the guys were willing to do that to you, you must be on to something serious. I'd like to see what you've got."

Mor was the financial advisor for the Minister of Social Affairs, Eli Suissa. He came to my home and I gave him a stack of documents to peruse. After a half hour, he put his index finger on his mouth and with his other hand directed me outside. When we left my property he said, "I'm not talking in your house. Do you know your documents are authentic?"

"Why don't you have a job in Nepal or Uganda? That's what they usually do to troublemakers? I'll report my findings to my minister and we'll see what he decides."

A few days later, Suissa's secretary called. She invited me to the minister's office and asked that I bring my documents for them to photocopy. In return, I would receive the most sensitive information of the whole Rabin affair.

How could I refuse? I was driven to Suissa's bureau, handed over my documents and was seated in his chief aide's office. I heard an energetic discussion in the corridor and then the young aide, Yitzhak Sudri, today the Shas Party spokesman, entered with Mor. He said, "The minister cannot attend this meeting but he has authorized me to inform you that the following information is accurate."

This was Sudri's exposition. In February 1996, four months before the elections, disgruntled Shabak officers passed the documents I had acquired plus many more to the "top" of the Likud leadership, which must have included Netanyahu and Sharon. They organized a meeting with the "tzameret" or top of Labour's leadership, which must have included Peres and his campaign managers Ehud Barak and Haim Ramon. After presenting the proofs, the Likud proceeded to blackmail Labour over Peres's role in the Rabin assassination.

If the name Rabin was used in Labour's campaign, the Likud chiefs would release certain damning documents to the public. If Peres defeated Netanyahu in their television debate, other documents would be released. And if Peres won the elections, everything would be released.

Labour did not bring Rabin's memory into the contest, Peres gave a miserable performance in the television debate and Netanyahu won the elections though he really didn't.

Recall the election night. The declared winner, Peres, did not show up at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque to thank his supporters. However, the declared loser, Netanyahu, all smiles, addressed his followers with the prophetic words, "Don't worry. There's plenty of time until the morning when the government will change."

And he was right. That day someone leaked the results of one polling station to Meretz MK Ran Cohen. He discovered 1500 spoiled Labor votes and many forged Likud votes. Based on this one station, he estimated that at least 120,000 were stolen from Labour. He submitted a petition to the Supreme Court to recount the votes but his own party ordered him to withdraw it. Even Peres prevented a recount though he publicly was dismayed that, "Labour supervisors weren't properly represented in the polling stations."

Sudri gave me the name and phone number of a graduate student at Tel Aviv University's Faculty Of Law, who was writing his thesis on this scam based, in part, on the Likud's own reports of their blackmail of Peres.. We met in a deserted cafe and he informed me, "I was warned yesterday not to supply you with any documentation. The best I can do for now is confirm that the elections were tainted. Peres actually won by 2%, just like the polls predicted."

A month ago, at my lecture in Bet Shemesh, an election supervisor stood and before 90 people, confirmed the election rigging. "A colleague of mine told me he was ordered to destroy piles of Labour votes in 1996." And that is why in three and a half years, the Netanyahu government did not pursue the Rabin truth. They were now soiled by blackmail and election tampering.

The only reason Peres and Labour would have taken the dive is if the blackmail against Peres worked. And it only could have worked if he had knocked off Rabin.

An investigation into the 1996 elections would require interrogating Suissa, Mor and Sudry. Let them deny the meeting with me took place. Who knows, perhaps they will do the honorable thing and not perjure themselves. I also have the names of the law student and election supervisor. I'll supply those as well. It is the ideal way to nail Peres for good. All that's missing is a responsible body willing to investigate these charges.

Gideon's Spies by Gordon Thomas - This Hebrew edition of this expose of the Mossad was overly trashed by Yediot Ahronot. That's a fine recommendation. In his first edition Thomas relied on two main sources; Ari Ben Menashe and David Kimche.

Ben Menashe did more to break the Iran Contra scandal than anyone. Over time, we see that he embellished his role in the Mossad's hanky panky but much of his information has not been disproved.

David Kimche was a mere Oxford student in 1968 when he flew to Israel to a ready made executive position in the Mossad. He was initially considered an infiltrator and he was. Within a decade he founded the Israeli branch of the Council On Foreign Relations, and he still heads it today, and he became the longterm office manager of the Foreign Ministry. In short, he was the CFR's mole in the Israeli government.

By over-relying on these sources, Thomas's first edition was flawed. But in the past year he has come to see that Joel Bainerman's and my information tells a truer story and in the new Hebrew, English and Spanish editions, he quotes our work at length. Thomas is now doing more than any foreign author to expose the truth of the Rabin assassination and the deceitful peace process. He deserves more Hebrew readers.

Gideon's Spies is published in Israel by Or-Am Publishing of Tel Aviv and is in most bookstores. For more information, contact the author at gordon@gordonthomas.ie

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Finally, my new book, The Last Days Of Israel is being prepared by the Zionist Book Club and should be out around August 20. If you want to be the first one on the block with a copy, write perkins@netvision.net.il