Reply #74: Israeli superspy Rafi Eytan dead, suspicious circumstances, Nov 23rd

[Minstrel Boy]

Thanks to Gandalf for getting me up to speed.

Raful, Ex-Chief of Staff, Drowns in Ashdod Port
16:03 Nov 23, '04

The popular and outspoken former IDF Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, known as Raful, drowned this morning at the Ashdod port. He was 75.

Raful arrived at the Ashdod seaside early this morning, as he did every day, to oversee the continued construction of the new HaYovel Port. He drove up to the site, and while standing on the breakwater, was either overtaken by a large wave or slipped into the sea for other reasons. Only after an hour or more did his car attract attention, and a search began. A helicopter helped in the search efforts, and his body was found close to 8 AM. Resuscitation efforts by Magen David Adom teams failed to revive him.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=72487

FORMER ISRAELI ARMY C-O-S RAPHAEL "RAFUL" EITAN MURDERED

On November 24, the wide circulation newspaper Yediot Ahronot published two photos on pages one and two. They are herein attached. The question of the breakwater was answered in both the photos published by Yediot Ahronot. Eitan was on the protected side of the harbor. Big waves could not get in. The photo where Eitan parked his car showed that the whole bay was dead calm. Barely a ripple could be seen. Outside the harbor, the sea was nasty. But inside where Eitan was, it was quiet. Had he actually fallen in, he could have swum to shore in seconds. But that wasn't the biggest revelation in those photos. The state of the car was the shocker. I sent the car photo far and wide, observing:

{photo on site}

Now look at the damage to his car. Observe the smashed windshield, the collapsed roof, the near total destruction of the right hand side of the vehicle. Now if anyone is crazy enough to think that a wave caused the wreckage, note the damage on the left hand side of the car as well. That car was rammed by something sharp there, by something powerful and blunt on the other side, and it appears that a fifty pound boulder fell on the roof.

Even if a magic tsunami raced over the breakwaters and headed straight for the car, it could not have caused the kind of damage we see in the photo. But the point is moot, because no giant waves occur where the car was parked. That observation was reinforced by the photo in Attachment Two: Eitan's body is on a pier in the Navy base, 1.5 km. distance. The pier is located on a far more exposed part of the harbor, yet the waves don't come close to reaching the top of it. And considering the still waters where Eitan parked his car, Israelis are asking how his body floated such a distance. The most likely scenario thus, is that Raful tried to escape his assailants in his car and was violently prevented from doing so. As for motive: No one knew more about Sharon's murky past than Eitan. Lately he had come out strongly against Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan. In his last interview, to Tel Aviv Magazine, he stated, "This disengagement plan is a historical error and I can prove it." In Israel today, that can get you killed.

Whatever the motive, the evidence of foul play was so strong in the public mind, that the government ordered an investigation on the day of Eitan's demise. It met for a few hours and declared that a wave had towed Eitan into the Harbor where he drowned. The issue of the still waters, the contradictions in testimony regarding the time of the "accident," and the state of Eitan's vehicle were not discussed. In Israel today, this passes for justice.

http://barrychamish.4t.com/html/raful.html