THE LATEST DELIBERATE ISRAELI HOAX
                         by Barry Chamish
   I thought when I announced that the "alien body" body "found" in Israel
was a hoax, that would be the end of matters, However, the same day I
received a number of requests to explain what happened. So here goes:
   On the morning of November 8, Mazal Maman who lives in a Galilee moshav,
went digging for fertilizer and found a small plastic "ET" doll in the
ground. It was in the ground long enough to rub out the coloring, so it lost
it's doll-like appearance and she thought she found a corpse.
   She called a government-owned radio station and police to report her
discovery. Within half an hour, a reporter from Maariv named Avi Ashkenazi
reacted and made an appointment to see her. He spent almost a full day in
her home. Shortly after, the Second Television Channel sent a crew out to
her home. That day, the evening news program of Channel Two, hosted by Gadi
Sukenik, broke the story of the "corpse." The next day, Maariv featured a
photo of the "body" on its front page with a prominent story by Ashkenazi.
The media circus was now in full swing with numerous networks and reporters
making pilgrammages to Mazal's home. One of the first to arrive was David
Ronen, Maariv's resident UFO reporter.
   After a full year in which Israelis filmed some of the most convincing
UFO footage in the world, in December of 1996, Ronen and Ashkenazi broke the
story of another "alien" corpse, found in another northern village called
Achiud. Ultimately, testing of this "alien" in England by the UFO
organization BUFORA proved it had the same carbon level as a frog or lizard.
The embarassment to legitimate Israeli UFO research was profound.
    However, this was not enough for Maariv or Channel Two. Also in December
1996, a "mystic" named Edna Harar predicted, at a UFO conference held in
Eilat, that the aliens would land in Tel Aviv on the evening of Jan. 4,
1997. Somehow, this nonsense became front page news in Maariv, and Channel
Two devoted almost a full evening of its programming to await the arrival of
the "spacemen". While Maariv and Channel Two ignore the many highly proven
UFO incidents in the country, they are less than amazingly open to
publicizing frauds in the most blatant manner possible.
     Between Achiud and the phoney alien arrival, the subject of the very
real wave of Israeli UFO sightings and encounters became a joke, with the
discoverers of the "alien," the Damti family of Achiud, the primary butt of
the laughs. However, David Ronen, a sincere but naive reporter, did not
understand the humor, and arranged to have the Achiud frog tested by state
pathologist Yehuda Hiss. He determined that DNA testing proved this
amphibian was not of this world.
     And now I intercede with my own experience of an unrelated issue: the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. By the summer of 1996, I had found police
laboratory results that totally contradicted the government's version of the
murder and clearly indicated that the General Security Services (Shabak)
were deeply involved in the assassination. I presented these results in a
series of lectures which planted widespread doubts that the convicted
assassin of Rabin could have done the deed.
     In October 1996, Channel Two's Friday Evening Magazine, hosted by
Sukenik, interviewed me under the pretense of "showing the contradictions
between the government's conclusions of the Rabin assassination and your
discoveries." The show that was broadcast claimed I was a "right wing
fanatic," not much different than "a Holocaust denier," and Sukenik arranged
to have organizations which sponsored my lectures, cancel them. Meanwhile
Ashkenazi published reports of my work which falsely accused the governing
Likud party of secretly financing me.
     As for Yehuda Hiss, who attempted to keep the Achiud joke alive through
Ronen, he was the state pathologist who changed Rabin's wounds to fit the
government coverup of the truth.
     In July, 1998, I gave a well-attended lecture on the Rabin
assassination in Jerusalem. One of the attendees was the highly respected
Jerusalem Post reporter Greer Faye Cashman. She surprised the audience by
announcing, "Everyone knows that Gadi Sukenik is on the Shabak's payroll."
     In October, 1998, Gadi Sukenik's secretary and researcher, Sharon,
called me several times promising to give national coverage to my new book
Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin (Feral House Books, Venice. CA). I decided to
play along, thinking bad publicity was good if it helped sell the books. But
I was mistaken. Sukenik's sole interest was in identifying bookstores
selling the book and threatening them with national TV embarassment if they
continued to do so.
     There is a great deal in common with UFOs and the Rabin assassination.
They are both state secrets and the same media personalities are being used
to cover them up. Numerous naive people have been deeply hurt by this
campaign to control Israeli public
opinion. I was supposed to be one of the victims but I had the goods on the
conspirators and ultimately prevailed. Mazal Maman was not so lucky. 
      A very shaken Mazal called me the day after Channel Two exposed her
"alien corpse" as a rubber doll. "Why did they make it such a big deal," she
asked, "if they knew it was a doll all along?"
      I explained that because of her, no one who had a true UFO experience
would dare publicize it out of fear of the kind of humiliation she had
suffered. After Achiud, it was two years before anyone would admit publicly
to a UFO encounter. After what the media did to her, it could take another
half a decade.end   
A suggestion: Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin (Feral House) can be ordered at
www.amazon.com