by John Massaro<\/p>\n
IN THE MONTHS AND years after September\u00a011<\/span>, 2001, there was plenty of commentary in the alternative media that implicated\u00a0Israel<\/span>\u00a0in the events of that day. I had my doubts about that, not because I ever believed the fairy tale about nineteen Arab hijackers, or the boogeyman terrorist Osama bin Laden, much less Bush Junior\u2019s line that \u201cthey hate our freedom,\u201d but because there was no smoking gun, as there had been on June 8, 1967 during the six-day war, when Israeli air and naval forces strafed and torpedoed the U.S.S.\u00a0Liberty<\/em>, murdering 34 American sailors in cold blood and wounding 171. (They failed in their attempt to send the ship and its entire crew to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, an act sure to be blamed on Egypt, which would have incited hatred in America against the entire Arab world.) Nevertheless, knowing how\u00a0Israel<\/span>\u2019s leaders operate and have always operated, as in the case of the\u00a0Liberty<\/em>, I kept an open mind on the subject.<\/p>\n Well, there was no smoking gun on the evening of June 12, 1994 either, when Nicole Simpson Brown, the ex-wife of pro football star O.J. Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, were found slashed to death outside her residence in a ritzy suburb of Los Angeles, but every sensible person knows who killed them. And in my mind, the evidence of\u00a0Israel<\/span>\u2019s culpability in the terror attacks of September 11th has reached the same level of certainty.<\/p>\n There are so many anomalies connected to the events of that day, and so many Jewish fingerprints all over the crime scene \u2014 the fingerprints of both American and Israeli Jews \u2014 that if I were on a jury, I would not hesitate to convict the many criminals as accessories to mass murder and vote for the death penalty. I\u2019m not going to write a dissertation here. I will mention, in passing, \u201cthe five dancing Israelis\u201d who were filming themselves, amid shouts of joy and mockery, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, while in the background the twin towers were engulfed in smoke and flames; of building #7 in the World Trade Center suddenly collapsing late that afternoon, a fact hardly mentioned in the media and about which most Americans are still unaware; of Larry Silverstein, who had held top posts in various Jewish organizations and had leased the WTC, and\u00a0did<\/span>\u00a0not show up for work that day, nor\u00a0did<\/span>\u00a0his two children who worked there, and later filed an exorbitant insurance claim for the destroyed buildings.<\/p>\n There is so much circumstantial evidence that this attack was planned in advance in order to kick-start the phony War on Terror, meaning endless U.S. military aggression against\u00a0Israel<\/span>\u2019s perceived enemies, but as I said, I can\u2019t begin to cover all of it here. Think of that Latin phrase,\u00a0Cui bono?\u00a0<\/em>(Who benefits?), often invoked by Cicero in the senate of ancient Rome. Who benefits \u2014 and therefore who is probably responsible? The answer is obvious: not America, not Iraq, not Afghanistan, not Libya nor Syria, nor any other Arab or Islamic country, only\u00a0Israel<\/span>. Indeed, one day after the terror attack, when former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a good friend of Silverstein\u2019s, was asked what it meant for relations between the U.S. and\u00a0Israel<\/span>, he responded \u201cIt\u2019s very good.\u201d Then he quickly edited himself: \u201cWell, not very good but it will generate immediate sympathy.\u201d What kind of creature would say such a thing, right after nearly three thousand people lost their lives, without uttering a word of sorrow or sympathy? The answer is: a creature who was mightily pleased with what happened that day.<\/p>\n