Wikipedia's first sentence called it “canadian -born israeli conspiracy theorist”. Today it says “canadian-born israeli writer and public speaker”.
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Barry Chamish is a Canadian -born Israeli conspiracy theorist. He is best known for his book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin ? , in which he puts blames the Rabin assassination on Shimon Peres and the Shin Bet (See: Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories ). He links his conspiracy theories with the roles of Freemasonry and the New World Order . He has also written a book about UFO sightings in Israel , and currently has a website and newsletter devoted to conspiracy theories about the deaths of various Israelis and Israeli politics. Chamish served in an Israeli tank division during the Lebanon War in 1982 . He has written extensively about what he views as Ariel Sharon 's and Shimon Peres 's mismanagement of the war. He accuses Sharon of sending his brigade deep into Lebanon after receiving orders from former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to advance no more than 20 kilometers beyond the border, and then sending word back to Shamir that the advance had indeed halted at 20 kilometers. Chamish's brigade ran into heavy fire, and the brigade was given no air support, resulting in half of it being destroyed. Chamish lives in Modi'in , Israel .1
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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 .
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Barry Chamish (born January 13, 1952) is a Canadian -born Israeli writer and public speaker.
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Barry Chamish ( ; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker.He was best known for promoting conspiracy theories about the death of Yitzhak Rabin - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.
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Canadian writer Barry Chamish ( Hebrew : ברי חמיש ; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker. He was best known for promoting conspiracy theories about the death of Yitzhak Rabin - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.
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canadian -born israeli conspiracy theorist
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canadian-born israeli writer and public speaker
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