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'''Barry Chamish''' is a ]-born ]i author and ]. He is best known for his book ''Who Murdered ]?'', in which ] the Rabin ] on ] and the ] and not on ].
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'''Barry Chamish''' ({{langx|he|ברי חמיש}}; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker. He was best known for promoting ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=3777|title='Conspiracists' still waiting for 'the truth'|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=30 April 2010 |access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref> - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.


==Yigal Amir== ==Early years==
Barry Chamish was born in ], Manitoba, Canada.<ref name="About"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305172307/http://thebarrychamishwebsite.com/about.htm |date=2011-03-05 }} thebarrychamishwebsite.com/ Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref>


In the first half of the 1970s, Chamish had three novels and a book of short stories published in his native Canada.<ref name="Archives"> Barry Chamish Archives, Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref> His novel ''Mack'' won a Canada Council Award worth several thousand dollars.<ref name="Whiz">Matt Bellan, ''The Jewish Post and News,'' February 1, 1989, pg. 5.</ref> In 1976, his book ''Alice in Newfoundland'' won a Manitoba Arts Council Award.<ref name="False"> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701180354/http://inquisitionnews.amplify.com/2011/02/26/wikipedia-false-claims-on-barry-chamish-as-holocaust-denier/ |date=July 1, 2011 }} ''Inquisition News,'' February 26, 2011.</ref>
Chamish believes that ] did not shoot Rabin and has written on this extensively. One of Chamish's websites carries the name yigalamir.com, after the murderer of the late prime-minister of Israel. Members of ]'s family told ], Israel's most sold daily, that ''"they object to Hamish's ideas, and that they have no right to publish such a website. They added the campaign angers Yigal Amir himself"''


Chamish earned a ] at the ] in 1974.<ref name="About" /> In 1975, Chamish ] to ], where he attended the ]. He received a ] degree in 1979.<ref>Greer Fay Cashman, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105214922/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/54179720.html?dids=54179720:54179720&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23,+2000&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Grapevine&pqatl=google |date=2012-11-05 }}, ''The Jerusalem Post,'' May 23, 2000.</ref>
==Wayne Owens dies in Israel==


Following graduation, Chamish was ] into the ], and served as a regular from 1979 to 1981.<ref name="Whiz" /><ref name="False" /> He participated as a ] in the ], during which he operated a ].<ref name="Whiz" />
Chamish has also accused Shimon Peres of the death of former ] ] ] the founder of the ] and head of the ] because "he raised congressional concern about Palestinian-sponsored terrorism... the ire of some Israeli activists" and because Owens uncovered fraud he had put himself at risk:


==Career==
:''], ]''
Chamish began to work as a ], publishing material in a range of publications including ''],'' ''],'' and the '']''.<ref name="Archives" /> Chamish established a news service to distribute his work called "Profiles of Israel," which he continued throughout the decade of the 1980s.<ref name="Whiz" />
:''Here is why Rep. Wayne Owens was murdered in ]. He is another victim of Shimon Peres' decades old murderama. Let us begin with some background from the ] before we sort out the murder:''
:''], ], ]; Page B07''
:''"Wayne Owens, 65, a ] ] who had represented ] in the ] for eight years and who was a founder of Washington's ], was found dead Dec. 18 on a beach in Tel Aviv. A ] spokesman said that the cause of death was unknown but that there were no signs of foul play.''
:''His death came at the end of a congressional delegation visit with leaders of ], ], ], ], ] and Israel and representatives of the ]. On the House's Foreign Affairs and Permanent Select Intelligence committees, Rep. Owens was an advocate of improved ] relations. Since leaving Congress in ], he had served as president of the ]....''
:''Barely a fortnight before, Rep. Owens learned the Ginosar scandal broke in Israel. He was either terrified or furious. It's a tossup. If he was terrified, it was because it wouldn't be long before his direct ties to Stephen Cohen would implicate him deeply in the scandals. If he was furious, it was because he finally learned how badly he had been scammed by Peres, Abraham, Masri and Cohen. Either way, he threatened to blow the whistle on the ]. He was poisoned at dinner and dead on a beach by 9 PM. Rep. Owens is now another notch on Peres' gunbelt.''


During the 1990s, Chamish wrote extensively on ]<ref name="Right" /> Chamish's work was featured on four episodes of the ] program ''Sightings'' as well as a half-hour of primetime coverage on ].<ref name="Right" />
==Freemasons and UFOs==


In the 1990s and 2000s, Chamish published a series of conspiracy books, including ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land'' (1997), ''The Final Days of Israel'' (2000), ''Israel Betrayed'' (2001), and ''Bye Bye Gaza'' (2006). Chamish charged in these that an array of external and internal forces had "corrupted the country's leaders" and engaged in a "determined agenda aimed at the demise of the Jewish state."<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527203439/http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/books.htm |date=2011-05-27 }}, March 6, 2011.</ref>
Chamish further links his ] with the roles of ] and the ]. He has also written a book about ] sightings in ], and currently has a website and newsletter devoted to conspiracy theories about the deaths of various Israelis, such as ] and ], and Israeli politics.


In ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Chamish claims that Rabin was not killed by a lone gunman and that he was shot three times—with the fatal wound being fired from the front.<ref name="Right" /> By the end of 2005 the book had sold 39,000 copies and had been published in seven different languages.<ref name="Right">Barry Chamish, ''The Jerusalem Post,'' February 2, 2006.</ref>
==Ben Gurion and Eshkol==


In 2008 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court summoned Chamish to pay ], an ] activist, defamation damages of 36,000 NIS (roughly US$10,000) after repeatedly calling him an agent of the ] intelligence service.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/172478 |title= בן-גביר כונה "סוכן שב"כ" - ויפוצה |website= ערוץ 7 |access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref>
Chamish has also written about the allegedly hidden roles of Israeli Prime Ministers ] and ]. He has attempted to trace the whereabouts of many Jewish ] immigrant children who were taken from their parents after they arrived on ] in Israel from ]. He writes that Ben Gurion recklessly allowed at least 6000 of these children to be fatally exposed to ] for purposes of ] experimentation. In his book ''Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust'', Chamish also claims that Levi Eshkol was a secret ] and that the ] was based on the teachings of ] (]-]) the ] who became an ] to ] by converting to ]. Chamish also accuses ] of being a "liar" who hid his alleged role of ] double-agent and is not the heroic '']'' that many are led to believe.


In the mid-2000s, Barry Chamish moved to the United States, last in ], where he continued writing and had a radio show on ] Radio on Tuesday evenings. He died in his apartment in Florida in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |title= Barry Chamish passes away |url= https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216825 |access-date=2 April 2018 |agency= Israel National News |date= 28 August 2016}}</ref>
==Lebanon and Sharon==


==Scrabble==
Chamish served in an ] during the ]. He has written extensively about what he views as ]'s and Shimon Peres's mismanagement of the war. He accuses Sharon of sending his brigade deep into ] after receiving orders from former ] ] to advance no more than 20 kilometers beyond the border, and then sending word back to Begin that the advance had indeed halted at 20 kilometers. Chamish's brigade ran into heavy fire, and the brigade was given no air support, resulting in half of it being destroyed. Chamush maintains a very low opinion of Sharon based on a number episodes in Sharon's public life


Chamish was the winner of the 1987 Israeli ] Tournament and the runner-up in 1988.<ref name="Whiz" />
Chamish lives in ], ].


==See also== ==Books==
* ''The Devil Wore an Angel's Suit.'' Winnipeg, MB: Split Level, 1972.
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* ''Keep Stillman: A Pun.'' Winnipeg: Split Level, 1973.
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* ''Mack.'' Winnipeg: Split Level, 1974.
* ''Alice in Newfoundland''. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1976.
* ''The Fall of Israel''. Edinburgh, Scotland: ], 1992. {{ISBN|0-86241-355-9}}
* ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land''. Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1997. {{ISBN|1-57558-017-9}}
* ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Venice, CA: ], 1998. {{ISBN|0-922915-50-4}}
* ''Return of the Giants''. Sun Lakes, AZ: ], 2000. {{ISBN|1-881542-66-1}}
* ''The Final Days of Israel''. Tempe, AZ: ], 2000. {{ISBN|1-893302-16-4}}
* ''Israel Betrayed''. Ainsworth, NE: Counting Coup, 2001. {{ISBN|0-9708598-5-6}}
* ''Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust''. Knoxville, TN: ], 2005. {{ISBN|965-90766-1-4}}
* ''Bye Bye Gaza''. Raleigh, NC: ], 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1528-5}}
* ''With the Kennedys.'' Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1530-8}}
* ''THE conPromised Land''. Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1258-1}}
* ''The Stinger, Not the Stung: Israel's Not So Civil War.'' Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1300450825}}


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* ''The Atlantic Monthly,'' Barry Chamish. Volume 259, No. 6 (June 1987), pp.&nbsp;54–58.
* Barry Chamish. ''Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin,'' December 3, 1998.
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Barry Chamish
Born(1952-01-13)January 13, 1952
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
DiedAugust 23, 2016(2016-08-23) (aged 64)
Florida, U.S.
NationalityCanadian / Israeli
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba
Occupation(s)writer, public speaker

Barry Chamish (Hebrew: ברי חמיש; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker. He was best known for promoting conspiracy theories about the death of Yitzhak Rabin - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.

Early years

Barry Chamish was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

In the first half of the 1970s, Chamish had three novels and a book of short stories published in his native Canada. His novel Mack won a Canada Council Award worth several thousand dollars. In 1976, his book Alice in Newfoundland won a Manitoba Arts Council Award.

Chamish earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1974. In 1975, Chamish emigrated to Israel, where he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a Master of Arts degree in 1979.

Following graduation, Chamish was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, and served as a regular from 1979 to 1981. He participated as a reservist in the 1982 Lebanon War, during which he operated a Redeye anti-aircraft missile.

Career

Chamish began to work as a free-lance writer, publishing material in a range of publications including The Atlantic, National Review, and the New York Newsday. Chamish established a news service to distribute his work called "Profiles of Israel," which he continued throughout the decade of the 1980s.

During the 1990s, Chamish wrote extensively on UFOs Chamish's work was featured on four episodes of the NBC-TV program Sightings as well as a half-hour of primetime coverage on FOX-TV.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Chamish published a series of conspiracy books, including Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land (1997), The Final Days of Israel (2000), Israel Betrayed (2001), and Bye Bye Gaza (2006). Chamish charged in these that an array of external and internal forces had "corrupted the country's leaders" and engaged in a "determined agenda aimed at the demise of the Jewish state."

In Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin? Chamish claims that Rabin was not killed by a lone gunman and that he was shot three times—with the fatal wound being fired from the front. By the end of 2005 the book had sold 39,000 copies and had been published in seven different languages.

In 2008 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court summoned Chamish to pay Itamar Ben-Gvir, an Israeli far-right activist, defamation damages of 36,000 NIS (roughly US$10,000) after repeatedly calling him an agent of the Shin Bet intelligence service.

In the mid-2000s, Barry Chamish moved to the United States, last in Florida, where he continued writing and had a radio show on First Amendment Radio on Tuesday evenings. He died in his apartment in Florida in 2016.

Scrabble

Chamish was the winner of the 1987 Israeli Scrabble Tournament and the runner-up in 1988.

Books

References

  1. "'Conspiracists' still waiting for 'the truth'". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  2. ^ "About Barry," Archived 2011-03-05 at the Wayback Machine thebarrychamishwebsite.com/ Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  3. ^ "Barry's Biography," Barry Chamish Archives, Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Matt Bellan, "Former Winnipegger Israeli Scrabble Whiz," The Jewish Post and News, February 1, 1989, pg. 5.
  5. ^ "Misplaced Pages False Claims on Barry Chamish as ‘Holocaust Denier,'" Archived July 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Inquisition News, February 26, 2011.
  6. Greer Fay Cashman, "Grapevine Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2000.
  7. ^ Barry Chamish, "Sorry for Being Right," The Jerusalem Post, February 2, 2006.
  8. "Books" Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, March 6, 2011.
  9. "בן-גביר כונה "סוכן שב"כ" - ויפוצה". ערוץ 7. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  10. "Barry Chamish passes away". Israel National News. 28 August 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

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