The most
amusing news this week is the Israeli rerun of a 2008 propaganda
story, in which Al Qaeda denounces 9/11 inquiry as conspiracy theory
and singles out Israel's arch enemy Iran as the worst peddler of the
madness, as described in the Wednesday
Ynetnews story,
Al-Qaeda slams Iran 'conspiracy theories'.
Thus the Zionist/Globalist bogey man, ridiculed as Al-CIA-duh by
the free-thinking Internet Intelligentsia, remains the gang that not
only can't shoot straight, but that inevitably shoots the Muslim
world in the back. As a former Army Opposing Force's (OPFOR)
Controller, I view Al-Qaeda as a nominally red (enemy) force that
inevitably acts in support of blue (allied) strategic objectives. If
there were no Al-Qaeda, then we would have to create one to keep the
Global War going.
My analysis of a Netanyahu gaffe (below) was one of many that
forced the first silly story, so implausible that it would make a TV
wrestling pitchman blush. It was reported by Haaretz as
Qaida No. 2: Hezbollah started rumor that Israel planned 9/11.
Since the Izzys are trotting out their old stuff it serves them
right that I now trot out mine to take up the challenge. It was
originally published in The Lone Star Iconoclast on April
19, 2008.
Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
"We are benefiting from one
thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon. These
events swung American public opinion in our favor." -- Ha'aretz,
Apr. 16, 2008
More than six years after
9/11, the Israel angle becomes more and more acute, and it becomes
harder and harder to be obtuse about it. The circumstantial case for
Israeli involvement in the terror attacks grows stronger with each
new revelation, old evasion or repeated charge of anti-Semitism
leveled against those who dare to ask questions.
Netanyahu's Wednesday remarks
suggest that Israel had a motive in the terrorist events, but they
are hardly new material. Indeed, on September 11, 2001, shortly
after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the same Netanyahu was asked
by reporters how the then-fresh cataclysm would affect US/Israel
relations.
"It's very good, Well, not
very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy."
He wasn't the only one who had
reason to celebrate the terror attacks. American neocons, closely
aligned to Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, had already published
their desire to see a "new Pearl Harbor" to catalyze American public
opinion for an imperial "new American Century." The document that
contains the "new Pearl Harbor" line, Restructuring America's
Defenses, was accepted by an incoming Bush administration in
2000. In large part it was a repetition of ideas accepted by Israeli
right-wingers in the 1996 document,
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
One Israeli Arrested, Others Detained at NY Airports.
"The New York Times reported
Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at
the Twin Towers before the attack on Tuesday, and were
congratulating one another afterwards." -- Fox News, September
14, 2001
Shortly after 9/11, Jewish
film director Mark Levin found that more and more New Yorkers
believed that Israel was behind the terror attacks. Accordingly he
examined the various unexplained facts and unsubstantiated rumors
that were fueling local public opinion in his boldly-named
Protocols of Zion. The documentary took its title from the
controversial underground political classic, The Protocols of
the Learned Elders of Zion, which alleged that a worldwide
Jewish conspiracy is the unseen force in shaping international
events.
In Protocols of Zion
Levin addressed the notorious dancing Israelis, believed to
be Mossad agents, who were filming and celebrating the ongoing
attack on the World Trade Center when they were arrested by local
police. In a popular YouTube clip excerpted from the documentary,
three of the arrested Israelis offer a
dubious explanation of their 9/11 activities on an Israeli
television program in November 2001.
Shortly after 9/11, Fox News
investigated the forbidden topic of Israeli involvement in the
attacks. It abruptly took the video down shortly after airing it,
though, reportedly due to pressure from the Israel lobby. The
official government investigations that Carl Cameron's report
prompted were quietly dropped.
Israeli Spy Ring
"Since Sept. 11, more than 60
Israelis have been arrested or detained, either under the new
patriot anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful
of active Israeli military were among those detained, according to
investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph
questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against
and in the United States." -- Fox News, December 2001
Every extract or quote in my
essay has come from a pro-Israel mainstream media source, and it's
difficult to see how anyone could accuse Ha'aretz, Mark
Levin, the Israeli 9/11 suspects or Fox News of
anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, for committing the thought crime of
putting it all together, I shall certainly be accused of
anti-Semitism.
In this topsy-turvy post-9/11
new world order, the label "anti-Semite" is the price one pays for
asserting that two plus two equals four. George Orwell, that most
relevant of modern writers, predicted things would be like this. On
the other hand, it is acceptable in fact, encouraged to assert that
"Islamo-fascists" are capable of saying and doing all kinds of evil.
A few days after the attacks, Osama bin Laden denied any role in
them:
Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks
"The US government has consistently blamed me for being behind
every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the
world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seem to have
been planned by people for personal reasons." -- CNN, September
17, 2001
Soon afterward, the Bush
administration "discovered" a videotaped confession, so we wouldn't
have to worry whom Bin Laden was accusing of being the perpetrators.
Never mind that Arabic experts pronounced the videotaped to be a
phony. To this very day Muslims have tried to muddy the waters when
it comes to 9/11. Take Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for
example, who just Wednesday insinuated that the official US story
was, at best, in error:
Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
"Four or five years ago, a
suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they
said that 3000 people had been killed, but never published their
names. Under this pretext, they attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and
since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq." --
Ha'aretz, Apr. 16, 2008
Without a doubt, Ahmadinejad
is stretching things a bit. First, the names of all 2,749 World
Trade Center victims were unreported only for five years -- but were
read on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Further, the Bush
administration has not killed a million Iraqis. As of the latest
report by the British Lancet, it has killed a mere two thirds of a
million.
After Netanyahu finished his
remarks about how good 9/11 has been for Israel, he launched into a
tirade about the evil of Iran and Ahmadinejad. Thank God we have
Bibi to remind us who our real enemies are.