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Rabin assassination has a pretty weird conspiracy theory though

• rightbyte 3y ago
  These ones? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin_assassination_conspiracy_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin_assassination_co... The bullet points seem to be mostly confusion at the scene and shitty police work afterwards. What is the conspiracy. That he was not killed at that spot, but later by the secret service? Like "that guy fired blanks at him, lets kill the PM and frame him"?
  • gordian-not 3y ago
    I never really understood the logic because it is deeply oxymoronic. People that generally wanted him dead (ultra right) think that he was killed by the secret service (presumably left) and Yigal Amir (ultra right) was framed. But it is something about putting blank bullets in order to gather support with a fake assassination and then he was really killed by the Shabak on order of Shimon Peres (but can’t say that’s verbatim) It always seemed even less internally consistent than most JFK theories
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    • rightbyte 3y ago
      I mean, that would be like a secret service sniper shooting JFK when Oswald missed, or something. Surely is is reasonable to believe that the risk of a secrete service assassination increases during a assassination attempt. But, there is not really anything that would indicate that. During the 1WW the death rate of officers was about twice that of privates for a sample. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X22001125 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X2... I believe that there is a risk of opportunity murder when bullets are flying. Using the confusion as cover. But, as I said, only speculative.
      • gordian-not 3y ago
        It’s similar to holocaust denial, it doesn’t make sense and the people who support the assassination also support the conspiracy