Final_Judgment

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`AN ARAB DID IT'
What really happened in those few short seconds is still the subject of
controversy, although the bottom line was this: shots were fired at Robert
F. Kennedy. The presidential hopeful was critically wounded. He died
shortly thereafter. The Arab-American assailant was pummeled to the floor,
arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison.
The public was somberly told that Sirhan was dissatisfied with
Kennedy's strong pro-Israel stand and that this was one of the driving
motivations that led him to commit the crime. So it was that an Arab-
American was held up to the world as the killer of a martyred American
president's younger brother, himself a popular public figure.
What an irony that it was an Arab-American who would happen to be
the assassin of the Kennedy brother who was perceived by "insiders" to be,
at least in private, an anti-Semite in the mold of his father.
That Kennedy did indeed take a strident pro-Israel stand during his years
in the U.S. Senate is not in doubt. As a senator from New York State
(which, of course, has a heavily Jewish voting population), that was a
political necessity for Robert Kennedy, who was, if nothing else, a
pragmatist, at least.
(However, as we saw in Chapter 5, it was RFK himself who believed
that the loyalties of his own brother's top advisor on Jewish affairs, Myer
Feldman, were suspect. "[Feldman's] major interest," said RFK, "was Israel
rather than the United States.)" 768
If anybody knew of President John F. Kennedy's secret war with Israel
(which we examined in detail in Chapter 5) it was his brother and confidant,
Robert F. Kennedy. Thus it was that an Arab patsy took the fall for RFK's
murder—a crime that had evolved from a conspiracy that was decidedly not
Arabic in its origins.
THE RFK CONSPIRACY
In this chapter we shall explore the source of the conspiracy that
removed Robert Kennedy from the political arena and thereby precluded him
from ever having the power to investigate the conspiracy that ended his
brother's presidency.
And as we shall see, the RFK assassination conspiracy comes full circle
with the conspiracy that killed JFK: the same powerful, close-knit sources
were connected, but in a uniquely different way.
Unlike Lee Harvey Oswald who proclaimed himself a "patsy," Sirhan
Sirhan responded almost without protest, with a certain passivity. This,
among other things, led some to suspect that Sirhan, in fact, was a patsy,
too, that he had been programmed—perhaps through drugs, or by hypnosis,
for example—to kill RFK.
Yet, in the weeks and months of investigation—official and unofficial—
that followed, it soon became apparent that there was evidence