MK Eitan on Raviv Case: Apology Still in Order "So it appears that your man was innocent, after all?" Arutz-7's Haggai Segal posed this question this afternoon to Likud MK Michael Eitan, who was long in the forefront of the public campaign to seek justice in the Amir-Raviv-GSS case. "I guess it will take me a few more years to get the full truth out about Avishai Raviv," Eitan responded slowly. "The court was asked to address a very specific point, regarding whether Raviv knew in advance [of the plan to kill Rabin], and ruled that he did not. I will not intervene in the court's decisions, but I want the public to know that the main issues have not been cleared up."
"Avishai Raviv himself goaded Amir to kill Rabin," Eitan continued, "but he wasn't charged with this. Raviv provoked entire sectors - settlers, religious-Zionists - in an illegal manner, more than his capacity as an agent charged to bring information demanded of him. He committed more political crimes than any one else. The Shabak (General Security Service) and the State Prosecution say that he did all this on his own, against their instructions. If so, we have to ask the following: a) Why did the Shabak continue to employ him if he kept on doing things against their instructions? And b), why wasn't he charged with any of the above?"
Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein is facing left-wing criticism today for having indicted Raviv at all, but MK Eitan said that Rubenstein simply indicted him on the wrong charges. "Why wasn't Raviv indicted on [the above charges]? True, it's too late now. But above and beyond specific indictments, there should be a public apology for the way the GSS worked and for what they did to large sectors of the population. Now, with this ruling, people will say that Raviv didn't know, and that that's the end of it - but they will simply be fooling themselves!"
A teenager from Kedumim told Arutz-7 a few years ago that she heard Avishai Raviv himself talk of killing Rabin: "Raviv spoke with us [a group of students] and told us that according to Jewish Law, Rabin, Peres, Sarid, and others are liable to be killed because they are public servants and violating Jewish Law. Yigal Amir said nothing, just heard everything and did not respond."
"Avishai Raviv himself goaded Amir to kill Rabin," Eitan continued, "but he wasn't charged with this. Raviv provoked entire sectors - settlers, religious-Zionists - in an illegal manner, more than his capacity as an agent charged to bring information demanded of him. He committed more political crimes than any one else. The Shabak (General Security Service) and the State Prosecution say that he did all this on his own, against their instructions. If so, we have to ask the following: a) Why did the Shabak continue to employ him if he kept on doing things against their instructions? And b), why wasn't he charged with any of the above?"
Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein is facing left-wing criticism today for having indicted Raviv at all, but MK Eitan said that Rubenstein simply indicted him on the wrong charges. "Why wasn't Raviv indicted on [the above charges]? True, it's too late now. But above and beyond specific indictments, there should be a public apology for the way the GSS worked and for what they did to large sectors of the population. Now, with this ruling, people will say that Raviv didn't know, and that that's the end of it - but they will simply be fooling themselves!"
A teenager from Kedumim told Arutz-7 a few years ago that she heard Avishai Raviv himself talk of killing Rabin: "Raviv spoke with us [a group of students] and told us that according to Jewish Law, Rabin, Peres, Sarid, and others are liable to be killed because they are public servants and violating Jewish Law. Yigal Amir said nothing, just heard everything and did not respond."