Final_Judgment

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Chamish, the maverick Israeli journalist, who said that Final Judgment
"makes a pretty cogent case for the Mossad being the moving force behind
the assassination of JFK." A self-described "Zionist" who says he is
"committed to the strength and survival of Israel," Chamish has helped stir a
tempest in Israel recently by documenting to the satisfaction of many that
Israeli intelligence was involved in the assassination of Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In his review of Final Judgment, he says that he accepts my contention
that the Permindex corporation was indeed a Mossad front for covert
operations. That's an important concession indeed, considering the debate
among JFK researchers as to what Permindex was—or was not.
Chamish did have several criticisms, but none of which were damaging
to the basic thesis which Chamish has essentially endorsed. He said that
while, in his view, "Piper gets lots right and lots wrong . . . what is bothersome is
it doesn't take much of what he gets right to make a case for Israeli
involvement" in the JFK assassination.
One of the things Chamish said I got "wrong" was labeling former
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (whom Chamish admires) as a
former "terrorist." That description is a matter of opinion, subject to debate.
Begin killed British officers in Palestine. He blew them up with bombs.
That's terrorism, by my definition anyway.
However, Chamish does concur that my suggestion that Israeli Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion (angry at JFK for trying to stop Israel from
building the nuclear bomb) may have thus decided, in Chamish's words, "to
contribute Mossad expertise to [JFK's] assassination" is reasonable
speculation. Chamish said that, in his view, "the assassination's core plot
was American and its genesis predated any possible Israeli involvement."
He believes that "America corrupted Israel and not the other way around."
Chamish said that he would have been inclined, previously, to dismiss
my thesis "as a fantastic yarn," except that in his research into the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin that he "independently discovered too many
facts in common with Piper's."
Noting that I was a correspondent for The Spotlight (about which
Chamish probably heard a few choice rumors) Chamish said that this "is not
really thrilling to me" but he points out that "about half of Piper's sources
are Jewish" and that "all in all, Piper doesn't sound like an anti-Semite and I
can spot one. I believe he is a sincere truthseeker."
Chamish says that "the weight of [Piper's] evidence" is
"circumstantial" but still "impressive," although "far from conclusive."
However, I have been the first to point out that although the evidence
presented in Final Judgment is circumstantial, it is no less circumstantial
than evidence put forth by those who contend, for example, that "the Mafia
killed JFK."
Chamish has also gone so far as to make a connection between Final
Judgment and the death of JFK, Jr., son of the late president. Chamish
pointed out—as I noted in the fourth edition of Final Judgment a year
before young Kennedy's demise—that JFK Jr. had published an extended