What's Good for Israel

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, in its English language edition, has revealed that "The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. 'We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,' Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events 'swung American public opinion in our favor.' Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University."

It would be interesting to learn if and when the Washington Post and The New York Times will be running the story, particularly as Netanyahu is likely to be the next Israeli Prime Minister. It might suggest to some Americans at least that what is good for Israel might not be an enjoyable experience for those on the receiving end, a lesson that the Palestinians have been learning for the past sixty years. It also revives old questions about just what Israel was doing in the United States prior to the attacks, questions that have never been answered and which, in fact, have been subject to a cover up by the Bush Administration and Congress. The Israelis were conducting a massive and completely illegal spying operation in the US directed against Arabs. It included bogus art students and a number of cover companies in New York-New Jersey and Florida. The presence of Israeli employees of a New Jersey moving company celebrating in Liberty Park as the twin towers collapsed suggests that the there was some foreknowledge of what was about to take place, information that was not shared with the US government. If Netanyahu is now stating clearly that the al-Qaeda attack was a good thing for Israel, is it not possible that the politicians then in charge (Ariel Sharon and company) made a similar judgment, letting the 9/11 attack take place because it was "good for Israel?"

Comments

[emeka]

Philip, i have read severral of your essays on the middle east, war and Iran. I have noticed that you have siome kind of anit-Israel bias.

Benjamin Netanyahu said that 9/11 was good for israel not because they wanted us to go to war for them, but because we here in America are able to have a feeling of the kind of things that go through everyday living around terrorist and sympatizers.

I know you dont like war. I dont either...no body does, but when you write your essays, try to bet your facts straight.

Mind you, FOXnews covered the spying case
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t8IChBDQrRQ

[Atticus]

As usual, paranoia reigns supreme with the moonbats.

[davedave]

i only got one problem w israel, its location....

you're going to need a lot more information than what you got to appear more than foolish and bigoted.

dig deeper, do your homework!

d

[MM5]

You're telling a former CIA officer to do his homework.
Your homework= If it makes Israel look bad, it must be a lie.

[davedave]

nope.

former cia people get it wrong too. just people. i can get conspiracy theories w draft beer between 4 and 7 at any bar.

he needs to connect the dots--smart, convincing, "intelligent"=intelligence.

anyone for aluminum tubes served w yellow cake?

d

[4skin]

This is an interesting article from an obviously courageous author, but it is difficult to ignore how the responding comments to this piece pretend that some manner of parrallel or common sense of purpose or destiny exists between Americans and Israelis, as if such common purpose could ever exist.

From the very first statement of our Constitution, where it is acknowledged that all men were created equal, and every word thereafter, up to and including the very lasts words in its very last sentence, our Constitution stands in proud contradiction to everything which the state of Israel represents.

Not only that but every decent American will find it impossible to countenance racist invasion, occupation, colonizing, disempowerment, dispossession, mass imprisonment, mass killing, civilian targetting, constraint on religious observance, violation of holy sites, egregious violence, perversion of democratic rights, race-based Apartheid Laws, mass passive paedocide and mass ethnic cleansing on any scale , much less on the scale practiced by that barbarous state of Israel during it's short and violent history.

Whatever nexus the author attempts to infer might exist between Israel and the events of 911, the inference, if correct, accuses Israel of involvement in a crime much less heinous than most which the world has become accoustomed to expect and to witness from that savage and barbarous state of Israel.