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November 9, 1995 AUGUSTA FOCUS
INTERNATIONAL
How could Israel’s fabled security fail Rabin?
By Nicolas B. Tatro
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM
How could it happen?
No country puts more empha
sis on security than Israel, and
the Shin Bet secret service built
an enviable reputation for pro
tecting leaders and preventing
terrorist attacks.
Security broke down, however,
when body guards apparently
mistook an assassin for a VIP
driver and let him close enough
tu shoot Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin with a9mm Baretta. Ques
tions are also being asked about
why Rabin was not wearing a
bullet-proof vest.
Asked by a journalist during
the peace rally he attended just
orior to the shooting whether
her husband was wearing a vest,
L.eah Rabin reportedly dismissed
tneidea as “ridiculous. You jour
ialists have some very strange
notions.” The Shin Bet on Sun
day launched a review of its se
curity cordon at the rally and
recommended that the govern
ment set up an independent
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board of inquiry, Israel Radio
reported.
It’s not as if there wasn’t ample
warning that an attack might
come from Israel’s religious right
wing.
In recent weeks, angry debate
over the future of the West Bank
spilledinto the streets with right
wingers heckling Rabin at public
appearances, calling him a “mur
derer,” “Nazi,” and “traitor.”
His Cabinet ministers were also
under threat, and extra body
guards and armored cars were
deployed. Housing Minister
Binyamin Eliezer was trapped
in an angry crowd, Education
Minister Shulamit Aloni was
punched in the stomach and
Environment Minister Yossi
Sarid was forced off a highway.
“It was a total failure because
the handwriting has been on the
wall for the past month,” said
Yossi Melman, an author and
expert on intelligence.
One of the problems is that few
Israelis really believed that an
Israeli would kill an Israeli.
Gideon Ezrach, former deputy
head of the Shin Bet, said he
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believed that when Rabin was in
the Arab West Bank town of
Nablus, his bodyguards were
“more psychologically alert” than
they were in Tel Aviv.
“I also think that we all did not
believe that such a thing could
happen,” said Ezrach.
The security was instead fo
cused on the threat from Pales
tinian militants, especially Is
lamic extremists who had threat
ened to get even for Rabin’s re
ported decision to order the re
cent execution of the Islamic
Jihad leader Fathi Shakaki in
Malta.
“Israeli security underestimat
ed thedangers of the Jewish right
and instead focused on Palestin
ian terror,” said Ziad Abu Ziad, a
Palestinian peace negotiator.
“Jewish fanaticism and terror
ism is not less dangerous than
Palestinian.”
Israel experts said the 25-year
old law student who confessed to
the assassination, Yigal Amir,
fit almost exactly the Shin Bet’s
profile for an attacker — a fringe
activist with no record of violent
behavior.
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“The concern was not that an
underground right-wing group
would plan a murder and send
killers against Rabin and other
Cabinet ministers,” wrote Zeev
Schiff, a military affairs writer
for the daily Haaretz newspa
per.
“The most likely scenario spoke
of a man who belonged to no
particular group, who had no
record with authorities, some
one who was aroused by the in
citement of those presenting the
prime minister as a traitor.”
According to fellow students at
the Bar-Ilan University, Amir
organized weekend trips to the
militant Jewish settlementin the
West Bank Palestinian city of
Hebron and was seen at several
recent right-wing protests.
Among the books found in his
room was “Day of the Jackal,” a
novel about the attempted as
sassination of French President
Charles de Gaulle, and a book
about Baruch Goldstein, the Jew
ish settler who killed 29 Muslim
worshipers in Hebron in Febru
ary 1994.
The Shin Bet had appealed to
major political parties in recent
weeks to curb the rhetoric of in
citement and tried to get Rabin
to cut down on public visits that
exposed him to threat. But Rabin,
a war hero who was wounded in
battle, pressed ahead.
“Those responsible for security
tried to limit his movements. He
told them the answer was not
body guards but an end to the
incitement that causes violence
in every sphere,” said Schiff.
An official who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity said Rabin re
fused to wear a bullet-proof vest.
Melman, the intelligence ex
pert, said past Israelileaders had
worn such protection and that
authorities should have insist
ed.
“The duty of the Shin Bet was
to force the prime minister to
wear it even if he himself object
ed to it,” said Melman.
“It is widely assumed that if he
had worn a vest the shots would
not have been fatal. I don’t know
if he would have survived but
there was a possibility that he
would.”
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