The Kempler Video of Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination
The Kempler video is the seven and a half minute
video made by Roni Kempler while standing on the roof of a
building overlooking the scene at the Kings of Israel Square
during the assassination of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak
Rabin on November 4th, 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Contents
1 Kempler video revealed to the
public
2 Kempler disappearing from the public discourse and
returning on the Internet
3 Kempler video used to
convict Yigal Amir
4 Barry Chamish gets involved
5 Questions regarding Roni Kempler
6 David Rutstein also gets
involved
7 Back passenger door of
the limousine at 7:17
8 Video concentrates on Yigal Amir
9 Shimon Peres and the back
passenger door
10 Yigal Amir pulls out the gun
11 Mistake that video was
shown to the public
12 See also
13 External links
Kempler video revealed to the public
Almost two months after the Rabin assassination, Israelis were
shocked to read in their newspapers that an amateur film of the
event would be shown on Channel Two news. The filmmaker was
announced as a "Polish tourist". However, this story changed the
day of the broadcast. The filmmaker was, in fact, an Israeli
named Roni Kempler.
Kempler disappearing from the public discourse and returning
on the Internet
In his sole television appearance the night his film was
broadcast, Roni Kempler explained that he wasn't interested in
making money. It was quickly discovered that Roni Kempler worked
for the State Comptroller's Office and was a bodyguard in the
Israeli army reserves. The Kempler video was shown on Israeli TV
in its entirety two times in December 1996 and the name Roni
Kempler was known world-wide. In the ensuing years the video is
never shown in its entirety on Israeli TV, and the name Roni
Kempler is never mentioned in the Israeli media. In July 2005
the video appeared on the web site yigalamir.com and has given
the world its first opportunity to examine it in detail with the
aid of computer technology.
Kempler video used to convict Yigal Amir
The Kempler video was used during the trial of convicted
assassin Yigal Amir, the Shamgar Commision on the Yitzhak Rabin
assassination and used for a brief period to convince the
Israeli public that Yigal Amir did, in fact, commit the murder
of Rabin.
Barry Chamish gets involved
Barry Chamish, author of the book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?,
has written extensively on the contradictions in the Kempler
video and the Yigal Amir murder trial. Mr. Chamish is also a
well-known lecturer concerning the Yitzhak Rabin murder
conspiracy in which he shows his audiences a slow motion recap
of the main scenes of the Kempler video. Mr. Chamish did not
have in his possesion the entire seven and a half minute uncut
video to distribute to the general public, and that may be the
reason why the Yitzhak Rabin assasination conspiracy still
continues to this day.
Questions regarding Roni Kempler
A letter was published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in
January 1996 from Hannah Chen of Jerusalem in which Ms. Chen
succinctly summarized some of the most blatant suspicions of
Roni Kempler. The letter read: "Allow me to add my doubts about
the strange facts surrounding the Yitzhak Rabin assassination.
You want us to believe that Roni Kempler was a just a "regular
guy" who happened to take a video of the assasination. At the
beginning of the video Roni Kempler was in the "sterile" area
and was requested to leave. So Roni leaves and goes to the roof
of an adjacent building - the perfect place for an assassin. Of
course there were security personal on the roof but those
security personal let Roni Kempler go home with the most
important piece of evidence that existed."
David Rutstein also gets involved
The viewing of the Kempler video in 1996 convinced Barry Chamish
to write and lecture on the Rabin murder conspiracy and Israeli
political corruption. In September 2005, David Rutstein returned
to Israel after a 15 year hiatus from the country. Mr. Rutstein
noticed that Israeli TV, which dedicated the whole week to the
life and death of Yitzhak Rabin, did not show the seven and a
half minute video but just a few second clip of the murder
itself and many Israelis did not know that the Kempler video
even existed. That raised Mr. Rutstein's suspicion and he
researched the Rabin murder on the internet and soon thereafter
made a partnership with Barry Chamish to bring the Rabin murder
conspiracy to the entire Israeli public. Subsequently,
yitzhakrabin.co.il and yigalamir.com were built in Hebrew and
barrychamish.com was built in English. In July 2005
www.yigalamir.com obtained the Kempler video and shows the video
free of charge on its website.
Back passenger door of the limousine at 7:17
The event captured on the film that is the center-piece of
doubts about the veracity of the Shamgar Commission is the back
passenger door of Rabin's limousine that closes before Yitzhak
Rabin enters the car. To almost everyone who watches that door
close, it appears that someone, perhaps the murderer, may have
been waiting in the limousine for Rabin. This is in direct
contradiction to the official conclusion that Rabin entered an
empty car. This occurs at 7:17 of the video as well as at 8:41
when repeated.
Video concentrates on Yigal Amir
But there is more on the Kempler video that contradicts the
official findings. As the seven and a half minute video begins
we notice that the video is concentrating on Yigal Amir as Mr.
Amir is by himself in the sterile area near Rabin's limousine.
Mr. Roni Kempler, when interviewed, said that he concentrated on
Yigal Amir because of his suspicions. We also notice that two
security officers strike up a conversation with Yigal Amir at
4:20 of the video.
Shimon Peres and the back passenger door
A few minutes later, Shimon Peres comes down the steps and walks
towards the crowd at the barrier. He accepts their good wishes
and walks to a spot about a meter and a half opposite the hood
of Rabin's car. Shimon Peres is accompanied by four bodyguards.
Peres stops, looks inside the back passenger door of the
limousine and then speaks to the the bodyguards. Peres and the
bodyguards together look into the back passenger door of the
limousine.
At this point there is a cut. Suddenly Shimon Peres is talking
to Rabin's driver, Menachem Damti. Shimon Peres speaks to
Menachem Damti, the driver, and subsequently Damti, Peres and
the bodyguards again look at the back passenger door of the
limousine. We notice in the video that Menachem Damti's head is
nodding from side to side to indicate that he disagrees with
something said by Shimon Peres.
Yigal Amir pulls out the gun
Shmon Peres enters his car and Yitzhak Rabin descends the steps.
The camera now concentrates on Yitzhak Rabin and we see the
bodyguard at Rabin's rear clearly stopping. The rear bodyguard
stopping creates an open space and allows Amir a clear shot at
the Prime Minister. Amir draws his gun from deep inside his
right pocket, circles a student reporter named Modi Yisrael, and
shoots with his left arm. At this point we see a flash of one
bullet, one loud "bang" and two softer bangs. After supposedly
"taking" the first bullet in the back, Yitzhak Rabin turns his
neck to see who shot him. The fuzziness or cuts of the video are
obvious to even an untrained eye. At the time of the shooting
Yigal Amir was somewhat of a shadow. According to the ballistic
testimony at the trial Rabin was shot at a very close range.
Yigal Amir was far away from Rabin so the video was "cut" to
extend Yigal Amir's left arm to shoot. As well, Yigal Amir is
right-handed and during the re-enactment of the shooting during
the trial Amir reenacted the shooting with his right arm, not
his left. The entire video becomes fuzzy for two seconds after
the first shot and then the video quality returns to normal. The
back passenger door of the limousine closes. Rabin, the driver
and bodyguard enter the limousine from the driver's side and the
limousine begins to travel. Soon thereafter the video stops.
Mistake that video was shown to the public
The most haunting moment of the video is the seconds before
Rabin is placed in the car, the opposite back passenger door
slams shut. This segment has been examined and tested by
numerous journalists, every shadow on the screen traced, every
possible explanation exhausted. It seems that someone was
waiting inside the car for Rabin. The question arises "Why did
they make this video if it's so incriminating?" One obvious
answer may be that "they made a mistake." That may be the reason
why the video is not shown or even mentioned on Israeli TV.
Therefore, the majority of younger Israelis didn't even know the
seven and a half minute Kempler video even exists. That is,
until its sudden appearance last month and now it's the talk of
the nation and soon the whole world as the Rabin assassination
cover-up gets blown!
See also "Shimo
n Peres came to power over Rabin's dead body"
The Kempler video
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