The State Prosecution has decided that the three young members of the Eyal organization will not be indicted on charges of \"incitement\" - and neither will GSS agent-provocateur Avishai Raviv. Raviv remains charged with the crime of \"not preventing\" the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin - largely because of challenging and cajoling statements he made, in front of witnesses, to Yigal Amir about the importance of killing Rabin. The trial against Raviv has been postponed several times.
Eyal was a fake organization established in 1995 by Avishai Raviv for the sole purpose of defaming the right-wing camp. To this end, Channel One\'s Eitan Oren filmed and broadcast a \"swearing-in ceremony\" of the organization, in which the aforementioned three young members participated. Justice Meir Shamgar later said about the film, \"Anyone who was there had to have known that [the ceremony] was staged.\" Possibly for this reason, but also because of the recent limitations placed on the application of incitement charges, the three will not be indicted.
What about the man who helped Raviv stage the event? Despite Shamgar\'s opinion and other evidence, the Supreme Court turned down a request last year to have journalist Oren indicted. Israel\'s Media Watch stated at the time, \"With today\'s judgement, Israel\'s Media Watch concludes a 4.5 year struggle aimed at revealing the truth to the Israeli public. We are sorry that the those in charge of the State of Israel are not operating in a manner befitting a free, democratic country, and do not deem it appropriate to indict those responsible for airing incitement to violence that preceded the murder of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin.\"
Eyal was a fake organization established in 1995 by Avishai Raviv for the sole purpose of defaming the right-wing camp. To this end, Channel One\'s Eitan Oren filmed and broadcast a \"swearing-in ceremony\" of the organization, in which the aforementioned three young members participated. Justice Meir Shamgar later said about the film, \"Anyone who was there had to have known that [the ceremony] was staged.\" Possibly for this reason, but also because of the recent limitations placed on the application of incitement charges, the three will not be indicted.
What about the man who helped Raviv stage the event? Despite Shamgar\'s opinion and other evidence, the Supreme Court turned down a request last year to have journalist Oren indicted. Israel\'s Media Watch stated at the time, \"With today\'s judgement, Israel\'s Media Watch concludes a 4.5 year struggle aimed at revealing the truth to the Israeli public. We are sorry that the those in charge of the State of Israel are not operating in a manner befitting a free, democratic country, and do not deem it appropriate to indict those responsible for airing incitement to violence that preceded the murder of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin.\"