Yesterday my friend MJ Rosenberg noted what, according to former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, was the upside of 9/11 (you read that correctly). Here's what Netanyahu had to say at a speech at Bar Ilan University:
We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq…[events that] swung American public opinion in our favor.
He uttered these words at Bar Ilan University as reported by the Ma'ariv newspaper—it seems the speech was in Hebrew (read: something we weren't supposed to know about). But MJ reminds us that is nothing new for Netanyahu. Here is what he said in September 2001:
It's very good. Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy…[and] strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we've experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.
So sayeth the best friend that American neocons have in Israel—a thought that should give all pause. ‘Nuff said.
Comments (1)
So do you disagree with Netanyahu, or are you just criticizing him for speaking the truth?
Posted by bm | April 23, 2008 7:35 AM
Posted on April 23, 2008 07:35