How does Israel fit into the big picture?

[David Guyatt]

That is not a change in topic David. It's central to the topic.

Do you have an opinion on what the Kemplar video reveals?
Was he shot inside the limo or outside the limo or both?
And who was inside the limo with him?

Myra, I watched the Kemplar video fully and in slo-mo in a hotel room in Leeds in the company of a Brit TV doco maker and Barry Shamish. I was trying to get the TV producer to make a doc for British TV on Rabin's murder. As Barry Chamish took us both through the footage it became evident -- no, obvious -- that Rabin's bodyguards had betrayed him.

The TV producer took the project on and worked hard at it and we had a ton of actual evidence, but ultimately no UK Broadcaster would touch the idea with a barge-pole.

Barry's view was that Rabin was actually shot in his limo or at the hospital. This view is probably correct when all the forensic evidence is weighed. I still have a copy of the surgeons handwritten report of his initial examination of Rabin. The death shot was a contact shot to the chest. If you remember the events, the official story (and Ronnie Kemplar's video footage) shows Rabin was shot twice in the back from a distance of a foot or two away.

Then, of course, we need to ask just how Kemplar, allegedly just a tourist in the city, managed to get on the rooftop to film Rabin's planed exit route from the Peace rally to his limo. That rooftop had armed Shabak officers on it.

This is just a fraction of the of the surface that we collectively scratched.

Barry was sure that it was the Americans who were ultimately responsible, albeit Shabak were the contracted party.