Netanyahu: 9/11 Attacks Good for Israel

[December]

Amazing......

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/images/netanyahu.jpg

Former Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (help·info) (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין "ביבי" נְתַנְיָהוּ‎, Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is Chairman of the Likud Party. As leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Born in Tel*Aviv on October 21, 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu grew up in Jerusalem. He spent his high school years in the United States, where his father, the historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, taught history. Returning to Israel in 1967, Mr. Netanyahu enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces and served in an elite commando unit.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/netanyahu.html


Netanyahu: 9/11 Attacks Good for Israel

16/04/2008

The Israeli newspaper Maariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 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," Maariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."

Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad casted doubt over the U.S. version of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.
"Under this pretext, they (the U.S.) attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq."

http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=40834

[suedanim]

I'm surprised this post has not received any comments. Just in case Decembers.... ahem... obsession? might have thrown you off... Here is another article from the Haarezt and Reuters... same story, different sources.

This not the first time Netanyahu has made this comparison or these kinds of remarks, but the first time I've seen any Israeli actually SAY out loud that 9/11 and Iraq had helped them (Israel).

If Ahmadinejad uses irresponsible rhetoric, so does Netanyahu. God help us if Netanyahu gets access to power in Israel.


Last update - 17:34 16/04/2008 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gifhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gifhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gifhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif

Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html)http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif

By Haaretz Service and Reuters

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gifTags: Israel (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/tags/index.jhtml?tag=Israel), Benjamin Netanyahu (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/tags/index.jhtml?tag=Benjamin+Netanyahu) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/tags/tag_arrow1.gif

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 on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the veracity of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.

"Under this pretext, they [the U.S.] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq."

Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran's nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s.

Netanyahu said Iran differed from the Nazis in one vital respect, explaining that "where that [Nazi] regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons," he said. "This regime [Iran] is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict."

[December]

I'm surprised this post has not received any comments"

There are MANY pro-Israel people on this forum, so they decided to boycott this thread I assume... :)

Thank you very much for the haaretz article, suedanim. I will sure post it on other forums.

And this one is for you - Fox News : 911 The Israeli Connection - http://youtube.com/watch?v=LecYbWM5Oao

:)

[December]

It sure seems like being an Israeli gives you a licence to say or do anything you please.... which, obviously, makes the leaders of Israel to speak their mind due to the absence of ANY self-imposed restrictions.

[potter]

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Maariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. "

I'm not at all surprised he said that. It's like disneyland for him.

We pay Billions and destroy our international reputation, along with 4,000 plus brave men and women's lives, we take all the risk protecting his ass, and it doesn't cost him a damn thing. "Owning" the American government is a wonderful thing....

[suedanim]

It sure seems like being an Israeli gives you a licence to say or do anything you please.... which, obviously, makes the leaders of Israel to speak their mind due to the absence of ANY self-imposed restrictions.

Its the leadership, extreme radicals like Netanyahu and the government of Israel that is the problem, not just being an Israeli citizen. My objection is to the actions of the government, particularly in recent years and in regards to the Palestinian people.

But, it is also true that in the last almost 8 years the Israeli government via the Mossad, AIPAC, JINSA and the PNAC have had an inordinate amount of influence on US foreign policy...since before 9/11.

[preservanation]

extreme radicals like Netanyahu
This is where we find ourselves in 2008...Any political leader or Government who protects his citizens and nation or enforces it's sovereignty is a called an extreme radical!
No wonder American Conservatives fight so hard against the tyranny of some on the left.
These One-World, Global Socialists really chap my ass.

[jafar00]

Why is it alright for Netanyahu to gloat how good 9/11 has been for his country, but when Ahmedinejad or another leader questions it, there is an uproar?
Why is it alright that some Israelis danced and cheered when the twin towers collapsed on 9/11, but when a dozen Arab teenagers danced for the camera, it was blown out of proportion?
Something is not quite right.

[suedanim]

Why is it alright for Netanyahu to gloat how good 9/11 has been for his country, but when Ahmedinejad or another leader questions it, there is an uproar?
Why is it alright that some Israelis danced and cheered when the twin towers collapsed on 9/11, but when a dozen Arab teenagers danced for the camera, it was blown out of proportion?
Something is not quite right.

Quite right. And what about all those "put options" massively traded just before 9/11?

preserve...Netanayahu IS a radical. He is on the same wave length of extremism as Ahmedinejad. Left alone those two would turn the ME into a glass landscape.

Dick Cheney snubbed Netanyahu (at least for public consumption) while he was touring the ME recently. Too much open association with him is not good for US diplomatic efforts. Though I don't know why Cheney would care. "So?"

[Pookie]

They won't think it's such a good thing when and if it happens to them.
Ahmadinejad puts our American conspiracy theorists to shame.
Netanyahu is just unrealistic.
Purrs,
Pookie

[December]

Netanyahu is just unrealistic.

I disagree with you, Pookie.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a former Prime Minister of Israel. So he knows his subject pretty well.

Fox News : 911 The Israeli Connection - http://youtube.com/watch?v=LecYbWM5Oao

[Pookie]

I know what he was. Thanks.
It doesn't make him realistic.
Purrs,
Pookie

[December]

It does.
And he is not the only one who said that 9/11 lead to Iraq war, and Israel benefited from it.

Fox News : 911 The Israeli Connection - http://youtube.com/watch?v=LecYbWM5Oao