Did Benjamin Netanyahu & Philip Zelikow write “the 9/11 script”? Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he PREDICTED 9/11 back in 1995 - apart from the seemingly unanticipated “flying bombs” & actually naming Osama bin Laden, who was barely on anyone’s radar back in 1995.
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Netanyahu in his book Fighting Terrorism (1995) "predicted" that - if we don't stop "this rising tide of Islamic terrorism" - one day "a nuclear-armed Iran" might use “its pre-armed militants in the West” to detonate “a nuclear bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center” 2/
In 1998 Philip Zelikow w/Ashton Carter & John Deutch published article "Catastrophic Terrorism" in Foreign Affairs (CFR) also raising the specter of nukes under the WTC & implicitly pointing to Osama bin Laden, just indicted for the East Africa bombings 3/ foreignaffairs.com/articles/unite…
In addition to co-authoring this "astonishingly precognitive" article, Philip Zelikow, "a self-described expert in 'the creation and maintenance of public myths' wrote the 9/11 Commission Report in chapter outline before the Commission even convened"! 4/ kevinbarrett.heresycentral.is/2016/04/911-co…
Netanyahu & Zelikow leave to our imagination what a SINGLE nuke would have done under the WTC but quite clearly 9/11 ended up looking nothing like what Ramzi Yousef testified he intended w/his van bomb - to cause one tower to topple onto the other tower 5/ books.google.com/books?id=wglOA…
Although the damage to the Twin Towers was far worse than anything anybody - except the perpetrators - could have ever imagined, NO network reporter, anchor or commentator seriously raised the possibility that nukes might have been involved in the devastation on 9/11 6/
Instead, to a shocked & awed public, the TV networks on 9/11 from the very beginning pushed what would become the "official” story of a bin Laden-directed, top-down “collapse” of the Twin Towers due to “flying bombs", a story that came to dominate all TV networks by day's end 7/
When one watches in retrospect how we were manipulated to accept this "official" story, it is not hard to think that there was some kind of "9/11 script" that at least certain TV reporters, anchors & commentators were following & that some "guiding hand" was behind it all.
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At Fox from the moment anchor John Scott came on at 0857 ET - even BEFORE the “2nd plane” hit - he was suggesting a possible "deliberate" attack like the 1989 [sic] WTC bombing that tried "to bring down the building by knocking out the support pillars" 9/
Once the "2nd plane" struck at 0903 ET, ALL the major networks started speculating about Osama bin Laden being behind it, although cautiously remembering rush to judgment after OKC bombing & TWA Flight 800 initially blamed on Middle East terrorists 10/
Where we really start to see "the 9/11 script" kick in is @ 0959 ET w/"collapse" of WTC2 & this "dialogue" btwn Fox News anchor John Scott & reporter Bill Daley explaining how the tower wasn't designed to withstand a direct hit from a 737 loaded w/fuel 11/
As to what verb to apply to what WTC2 did, John Scott tried "falling apart", "crumble", "fall", "disintegrate" & ended w/"the building simply collapsed of its own weight" b/c "there was so much damage from the heat of the fire" #SteelWillMelt 12/
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In previous threads I have laid out the long history of Netanyahu's "Hamas is ISIS" & "battle of civilization agst barbarism" rhetoric that dominated Zionist hasbara in aftermath of 10/7. What still needs to be told is the story of those who chose to fight this hasbara.
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Late on 10/7, Israeli PM Netanyahu tweeted (in Hebrew) to the citizens of Israel "Hamas started a cruel and evil war...Hamas wants to murder us all. It is an enemy who murders children and mothers in their homes, in their beds..." 2/
On 10/9 Netanyahu addressed the citizens of Israel in Hebrew & English. In English he said "Hamas is ISIS. And just as the forces of civilization united to defeat ISIS, the forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas." 3/
Up until 10/7 Netanyahu's rhetoric dating back to the 1980s that "the battle agst terrorism was part of a MUCH LARGER STRUGGLE, one btwn the forces of civilization & the forces of barbarism" had been treated as hyperbole. Is it still hyperbole?
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To understand whether Netanyahu's post-10/7 rhetoric threatens WWIII or just revival of Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, a good start is to compare/contrast how identical rhetorical elements played out in 2014 "Gaza War" & are currently playing out in 2023 "Israel-Hamas War" 2/
A key rhetorical device employed in both Gaza wars was the meme "Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is Hamas", personally introduced & propagandized by Netanyahu in the last week of the six-week long 2014 Gaza War (8 July – 26 August 2014) 3/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza…
No doubt if Netanyahu gave this "battle of civilization against barbarism" speech before joint session of Congress, he would break the record of 29 standing ovations he got in 2011! But what is it w/this WWII rhetoric? What happened to the "War on Terror"?
As Christopher Bollyn outlined in 2018, "the War on Terror is essentially an Israeli war strategy," first promoted on world stage by Netanyahu & Menachem Begin at Jerusalem Conference hosted by Netanyahu Institute in July 1979 web.archive.org/web/2018111208…
Netanyahu continued as the leading proponent of "the global War on Terror" through the 1980s & 1990s with books like "Terrorism" How The West Can Win" (1986) & "Fighting Terrorism" (1995)
Richard Medhurst & Paul Lookman have recently raised doubts 2020 #BeirutBlast was an ACCIDENT, observing how destruction of port of Beirut fit into a pattern along w/other recent events that can ALL be seen as part of a #USrael plan for Netanyahu’s “New Middle East”
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Both @richimedhurst & @PaulLookman suggest war in Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, blowing up Nord Stream pipelines, US occupation of & Israeli bombing of Syria, killing of Iranian nuclear deal all part of plan to give Israel oil & gas monopoly in Europe 2/
@richimedhurst @PaulLookman Both also see geopolitical motives behind the recent Gaza genocide/Nakba 2.0 as Israel needs to "extinguish the Palestinian issue once and for all" in order to provide the regional "stability" necessary for #USRAEL to carry out "New Middle East" agenda 3/ geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2023/10/28/de-…
On 22 Jan 2004, "Joe Vialls" posted an article "Fortress Americas, Part 2" on his website in which he made the startling claim "the Zionists" were responsible for blowing up the US & French Marine barracks in Beirut on 23 Oct 1983. So WHO was this mysterious Joe Vialls?
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Joe Vialls more startlingly claimed "the Zionists" had NUKED the US & French Marines by detonating "two Dimona micro nukes" outside their barracks! But was he REALLY the impoverished, seriously ill Aussie working out of his home he portrayed himself as? 2/ web.archive.org/web/2005011510…
Vialls stated "The Zionists were furious when the multinational peace keeping force invaded their new training ground." So was "Joe Vialls" really the "extreme right wing" "anti-semitic" conspiracy theorist B'nai B'rith tried to paint him as? 3/
What could have caused this "cloud" at "surface zero" above the Nord Stream 1 explosion site in this photo taken at 19:12 (UTC+2) on 26 Sep 2022? Was it a "plume" from a 1-4 kiloton underwater nuke? A "fountain" from escaping methane? Could it have possibly been both?
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In the past year, two "citizen investigators" - Hans-Benjamin Braun @Ben68638515 (l) & Erik Andersson @Erkperk (r) - w/very different ideas on what caused the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, have done more than anyone to analyze the physical effects of these explosions 2/
@Ben68638515 @Erkperk Swiss physicist Hans-Benjamin Braun laid out his basic ideas in a 31 Dec 2022 paper "Nordstream - Anatomy of Dante's Explosion" that he immediately started circulating to other academics, journalists, politicians, governments, etc. 3/ drive.proton.me/urls/HYVJAJ3P5…