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Barry Chamish (born Winnipeg, 1952) is a Canadian-Israeli writer, investigative journalist and public speaker, best known as a conspiracy theorist and UFO investigator.

He studied at the University of Manitoba and later moved to Israel. In 1975 he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, receiving an MA in 1979. In 1981, Chamish founded a small press service and has contributed investigative reports to publications as diverse as National Review, Israel Business Today and New Internationalist.

Chamish has written several books, most self-published, of which the best-known is Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?, published in 1998. In this book, Chamish blames the Rabin assassination on Shimon Peres, at that time Israel's minister of Foreign Affairs, and on the Shin Bet instead of the convicted assassin Yigal Amir.

Chamish has also been a Scrabble champion in Israel and has written on the game for The Atlantic Monthly.

Views

Ariel Sharon

Chamish has written extensively about what he views as Ariel Sharon's and Shimon Peres's "mismanagement" of the 1982 Lebanon war. He has stated that Sharon, in collusion with Peres and Henry Kissinger, deliberately perpetrated the Sabra and Shatila massacre in order to destroy Begin's political reputation and career. Chamish maintains a very low opinion of Sharon based on a number episodes in Sharon's public life.

Chamish also described the drowning of former Israeli minister Rafael Eitan, who reportedly was "swept away by a wave while working on a dock in Ashdod", as a "hit" by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The police and media in Israel saw it as an accident.

Shimon Peres

Chamish claims that Yigal Amir did not shoot Rabin. Members of Yigal Amir's family told Yedioth Ahronoth in January 2005 that "they object to Chamish's ideas, and that have no right to publish such a website. They added the campaign angers Yigal Amir himself." .

Chamish has also accused Peres of the death of former Utah Congressman D. Wayne Owens the founder of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation and head of the Middle East Peace Center because "he raised congressional concern about Palestinian-sponsored terrorism... the ire of some Israeli activists" and because Owens uncovered supposedly fraud he had put himself at risk:

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 Peres Peace Center. He was poisoned at dinner and dead on a beach by 9 PM. Rep. Owens is now another notch on Peres' gunbelt.

In his explanation for the "Sharon stroke mystery", Chamish explains that this was a murder attempt by Shimon Peres and Yoram Rubin. While he gives no explanation why Peres and a bodyguard would want to kill the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, let alone any evidence, Chamish tells us that before he fell into a coma, Sharon wanted to appoint the Israeli president Moshe Katzav as his deputy and not his close political affiliate Ehud Olmert. Also he explains that Sharon was about to allow business people to build a casino in the dismantled Gush Katif settlement block.

Chamish also claims that Shimon Peres gave away Jerusalem to the Vatican in a secret clause of the Oslo Agreements and that this "fact" had been widely published in Israel.

See also: Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories

Gaza Strip withdrawal and Hurricane Katrina

Barry Chamish connects the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip with the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, because Gush (Katif) and Gulf start with GU and Katrina and (Gush) Katif start with KAT. He points out that the remainder of the latter words, after subtracting KAT and rearranging rina, is "if rain". Chamish told Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem reporter of the World Net Daily: Simple human beings cannot fully understand what is going on, but the events certainly must be connected. It's statistically impossible to have two such great natural disasters like the recent tsunami in Asia and Katrina right after each other. This is the hand of God. He is saying something. This view is also supported by some religious Jews who are not conspiracy theorists.

In addition to the letters, Chamish connects the two occurrences also with numbers: "There are approximately 6 million people in Israel. 10,000 divided by 6,000,000 equals 0.00167. Two weeks later, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in the southern United States, and laid waste and complete desolation to the City of New Orleans. New Orleans has a population of 500,000. US News agencies are openly calling those displaced by the hurricane 'refugees.' There are approximately 300 million people in the United States. 500,000 divided by 300,000,000 equals 0.00167."

UFOs

Chamish has also written a book about UFO sightings in Israel. In the 21st century, he stopped writing about UFOs, although he still claims his analysis on UFOs to be true.

Miscellaneous theories

In the Versailles banquet hall disaster, where a floor collapsed during a wedding, 23 persons were killed and 300 more injured. Chamish, without quoting any evidence, deducts that this was a sort of general rehearsal for the American set-up of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, in which almost 3000 persons died.

In 2005, Chamish broke the story of a large secret military base being built in Israel by the US and published numerous pictures as well. . Located near Rosh Ha'Ayin, the base was completed shortly thereafter and turned over to the IDF.

Chamish also accuses Natan Sharansky of being a "liar" , who hid his alleged role of KGB double-agent , and not a heroic refusenik as many believe.

Criticism

The chief critic of Barry Chamish is Professor Steven Plaut in the Jewish Press weekly and the Jerusalem Post daily . Daniel Pipes has also dismissed Chamish's work as "nonsense".

References

Bibliography

  • The Devil Wore an Angel's Suit. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Split Level, 1972. No ISBN
This book was Chamish's first book and was a compilation of the tales of triumph of a collective group of friends
  • Keep Stillman: A Pun. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1973. No ISBN (front cover by Irene Chamish)
  • Mack. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1974. No ISBN.
This book was written during the time period of Barry Chamish's divorce from his first wife ( Irene Chamish who was the artist of the previous book "Keep Stillman : A Pun". The Mack book was a deliberate satirical parody of Barry Chamish's first wife and his relationship with her. The book was written for the benefit of an explanation to a group of close friends
  • Alice in Newfoundland. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1976. No ISBN (Poems)
  • The Fall of Israel. Edinburgh, Scotland: Canongate, 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: Feral, 1998. ISBN 0-922915-50-4
  • Return of the Giants. Sun Lakes, AZ: Book World/Blue Star, 2000. ISBN 1-881542-66-1
  • The Final Days of Israel. Tempe, AZ: Dandelion, 2000. ISBN 1-893302-16-4
    • Also published as The Last Days of Israel. 2001. Same publisher and ISBN
  • Israel Betrayed. Ainsworth, NE: Counting Coup, 2001. ISBN 0-9708598-5-6
  • Save Israel. Modi'in, Israel: Modiin House, 2002. No ISBN
  • Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust. Knoxville, TN: Master Press, 2005. ISBN 965-90766-1-4
  • Bye Bye Gaza

External links

Websites and web-based articles

Journal and press articles

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