In May 1968, a month preceding Robert Kennedy’s assassination, AMAN (Israeli Military Intelligence) was planning on assassinating Yasser Arafat by hypnotically programming a Palestinian. The idea was proposed by a Navy psychologist named Benjamin Shalit who claimed that “if he was given a Palestinian prisoner (one of the thousands in Israeli jails), with the right characteristics he could brainwash and hypnotize him into becoming a programmed killer. He would then be sent across the Jordan, join the Fatah there, then when the opportunity arose do away with Arafat.” The proposal was approved. Shalit selected a 28-year-old Palestinian from Bethlehem who he judged easily suggestible. The operation failed, but it proved that in 1968, Israel was experimenting with methods of assassination identical to the one used against Robert Kennedy. These mind-control experiments included the dosing of unwilling prisoners with potent drugs, subjecting them to extremes of temperature and sound & strapping them to electroshock machines.