Until Death Did They Part (continued)
	Much has been made of the failure of the GSS to detect the assassination plot, or to apprehend Amir before he got to within three feet of the Prime Minister.  Questions have been raised as to who shouted that the shots were blanks, and why.  And Amir himself has stated that the guards thought he was no risk, and that he was therefore allowed to loiter near the cars throughout the evening. In an effort to answer these questions, suppose that the GSS guards recognized Amir as one of them.  He had, after all, been an operative in the GSS scarcely three years ago.  Suppose further that they knew of his association with Eyal, and that they might even have known about the coming attack on the Prime Minister as part of the larger GSS operation to discredit the right.  After all, what better time to discredit the opposition than at a love in for the government? Amir was to step up to the Prime Minister, gaining access through the cordon of GSS bodyguards, and fire three blank shots at him. Rabin would fall to the ground, be rushed to hospital, and be miraculously saved by emergency surgeons.  He would then accuse the entire opposition of being out to kill him and sweep to the first absolute victory in Israeli electoral history, riding a combined wave of anger, sympathy and disgust of the opposition. What went wrong in this scenario is that the GSS lost control of their own plot.  Raviv, Amir, and likely others, began believing their own rhetoric.  The twisted logic that resulted led them to believe that the GSS actually wanted them to kill the Prime Minister.  The blank shots became real bullets, and the left has not yet caught its breath in its haste to discredit the right. But in this, as in much else, the left will not succeed, due to its own utter incompetence.  Now, instead of libeling everyone in the opposition as a murderer, the government needs to look in its own backyard.  The real murderers are its own operatives gone bad. Yitzchak Rabin is dead, and that is a national tragedy.  But what is even more tragic is that his own security service is responsible.  The GSS needs badly to be purged of its hierarchy.  It likely needs to be disbanded and recreated along more proper lines of security.  Espionage and deceit, especially in the arena of domestic security, can only further destroy the nation, and that is one tragedy that cannot be allowed to happen. Copyright 1995.  Reproduction in electronic or print formats by permission only.