by Kevin Barrett, http://www.truthjihad.com
Most Americans think the war on terror was Bush's
idea, and it began in New York and Washington DC on September 11th, 2001.
Did you know that it was actually Benjamin Netanyahu's idea, and it began in
Israel in the summer of 1979?
Netanyahu
is an ultra-radical Zionist and former Prime Minister of Israel. He launched
the war on terror at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International
Terrorism (JCIT), which he organized on behalf of the Jonathan Institute,
named for his brother who was killed during an IDF raid on the Occupied
Territories.
As Nafeez Ahmed writes, the 1979 JCIT "established the
ideological foundations for the 'war on terror.'"[i] Participants at the
conference included George H.W. Bush, Richard Pipes, Sen. Henry M. Jackson,
Benzion Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, and many other high-level Israeli and U.S.
military and intelligence personalities. Netanyahu's JCIT proposed to
deceive the American public, and the world, by wildly exaggerating the
dangers of "international terrorism" and even manufacturing a nonexistent
"terrorist threat" to mobilize Western populations behind aggressive
policies.
At
exactly the same time as the Jerusalem Conference (summer 1979) Brezezinski
and the CIA created al-Qaida as a CIA asset. The name "al-Qaida" means "the
(data) base" and refers to the CIA's database of Arab fighters that it
recruited to battle the Soviets in Afghanistan and elsewhere along the
southern flank of the Russian empire. Ahmed cites evidence that "al-Qaida"
does not exist except as a CIA database and a CIA asset. (The Arab/Muslim
fighters referred to in the Western press as "al-Qaida" never used the term
prior to 2001.)
Fast-forward to 1996. Netanyahu, now the Prime
Minister of Israel, commissions a paper entitled “A Clean Break: A New
Strategy for
Securing
the Realm.” The paper's lead author is neoconservative Zionist extremist
Richard Perle. Co-authors include such neocon Israel-first fanatics as
Douglas Feith and David Wurmser--the same folks who will lead the "war on
terror" propaganda campaign after 9/11.[ii]
"A Clean Break" argues for (U.S.-imposed) regime
change in Iraq. Perle will later become the chairman of President George W.
Bush's Defense Policy Board, and play a key role in pushing the U.S. into
its ill-fated invasion of Iraq in 2003.[iii]
When the Twin Towers were destroyed, and thousands of
Americans murdered, Israeli extremists were overjoyed, and the "Clean Break"
plan became reality. Netanyahu himself, asked what 9/11 would mean for
U.S.-Israeli relations, could barely restrain himself:
"It's very good. Well, it's
not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)."[iv]
More than six years later, he hadn't changed his mind:
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."[v]
Netanyahu wasn't the only Israeli extremist celebrating
the 9/11 attacks. A Mossad surveillance team was arrested in New York on
9/11 after they were caught red-handed filming and wildly celebrating the
destruction of the Twin Towers. The New Jersey newspaper the Bergen Record
reported that police and FBI field agents searched the Mossad van and found
maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same
items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and
foreign passports. The Bergen Record reported that bomb sniffing dogs were
brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives.
According to the Jewish weekly The Forward, the FBI says that at least two
of the detained Israelis were Mossad agents.[vi]
One of the Mossad agents, Sivan Kurzberg, told the
police who had arrested him: "We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your
problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem."
Why are the Palestinians America's problem? Was the
"war on terror" designed to convince Americans that Israel's problems are
also America's problems? Was it designed to demonize Arabs and Muslims, who
don't have a problem with the U.S., but who do have a very serious problem
with Israel? Was it designed to trick Americans into doing what Israelis
have been doing for decades: kidnapping, torturing, sexually-abusing, and
mass-murdering Arabs and Muslims? As the San Francisco Chronicle asked:
"Were Abu Ghraib abuses learned from Israel?"[vii] Did you know that one of
America's leading international law professors says Israel is guilty of
genocide against the Palestinians?[viii] And if the Zionists are committing
genocide, and using their financial and media clout in the U.S.A to cover it
up, what wouldn't they do?
Michael Andregg, Peace Studies professor at the
University of Minnesota, has asked the Israeli Prime Minister to immediately
tell the American people the truth about Israel's role in the 9/11 attacks.
"The question is not whether Mossad was here. They were here, and lots of
them. The question is why." Dr. Andregg, who wants a Truth and
Reconciliation Commission to investigate 9/11, says that the American people
can be tolerant and forgiving...IF they're told the truth.[ix]
[i] Nafeez Ahmed, The War on Truth: 9/11,
Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism. Ahmed's work on JCIT cites
Philip Paull's MA thesis "International Terrorism": The Propaganda War, San
Francisco State University, 1982.
[ii]
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=benjamin_netanyahu
[iii] James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of
Bush's War Cabinet (NY: Viking, 2004).
[iv]
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
[v] Reported in Haaretz, archived at
http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/04/netanyahu---911.html
[vi]
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
[vii] "Were Abu Ghraib abuses learned from Israel?
Palestinians think so, but Shin Bet interrogators scoff at U.S. methods.
"San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2004.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/27/MNGMM7CTSF1.DTL
[viii] Francis Boyle, "Palestine Should Sue Israel for
Genocide before the International Court of Justice." MediaMonitors, December
2, 2000 (http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis1.html).[ix] "Rethinking 9/11:
Why Peace and Reconciliation Are Better Strategies than Global War."
http://www.gzmn.org
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