Commentary: Why Does the Left Hate Israel? | Georgia Star News
October 15, 2022
by Victor Davis Hanson
As over 3,000 rockets are fired into Israel by Hamas, the establishment of the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war.
It is not just that they fear that the squad, Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of Antifa, and the woke institutions such as professional sports, academia, and the media are now unapologetically anti-Israel.
They are in terror also that anti-Israelism is becoming synonymous with rank anti-Semitism. And soon the Democratic Party will end up disdained as much as was the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
The new core of the Democrats, as emblemized by Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), has in the past questioned the patriotism of American Jews who support Israel, and often has had to apologize for puerile anti-Semitic rants.
The Left in general believes we should judge harshly even the distant past without exemptions. Why then, in venomous, knee-jerk fashion, does it fixate on a nation born from the Holocaust, while favoring Israel’s enemies, who were on the side of the Nazis in World War II?
It was not just that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, was a Nazi sympathizer. Egypt, for example, welcomed ex-Nazis for their hatred of Jews and their military expertise—whether the infamous death camp doctor Aribert Ferdinand Heim or Waffen-SS henchman Otto Skorzeny. The Hamas charter still reads like it is cribbed from Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
The Left claims it champions consensual government and believes the United States must use its soft power clout to isolate autocracies. But the Palestinian Authority and Hamas refuse to hold free and regularly scheduled elections. If an Israeli strong man ever suspended free elections and ruled through brutality, U.S. aid would be severed within days.
If history and democratic values cannot explain fully the hatred of Israel on the Left, perhaps human rights violations do. But here too there is another radical asymmetry. Arab Israeli citizens enjoy far greater constitutional protections than do Arabs living under either the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.
Is the Left bothered by the allies of Hamas? After all, most are autocracies such as Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia.
We return then to other reasons for the woke furor directed toward Israel.
In part, the Western Left despises the unapologetically successful—as if they are always beneficiaries of unfair privilege. Underdog Israel was not so hated from 1947-1967. Then it was poor, more socialist, and in danger of being extinguished by its many neighboring enemies.
But after the victories in the 1967 and 1973 wars, the Israeli military proved unconquerable, no matter how large the numbers, wealth, and armaments of its many enemies.
For the Left, Israel’s current strength, confidence, and success mean it cannot be seen as a victim, but only as a victimizer. The more its Iron Dome missile defenses knock down the flurry of Hamas rockets, the more its planes take out those who launched them, so all the more the Left bizarrely believes Israel wins too easily and acts “disproportionately.”
In the virtue-signaling world of the contemporary West, Israel has become caricatured as playing the role of the American white police, the Palestinians a foreign version of the oppressed Black Lives Matter movement. The Palestinians then are woke, the Israelis not so much.
The Left also has a strange idea of current “imperialism” and “colonialism.” The general rule is that Westerners cannot settle in numbers in the non-West. But the reversal is certainly not true. Millions of Middle Easterners are welcomed into Belgium, France, Germany, the U.K., and the United States.
Yet, Jews have been in what is modern-day Israel since nearly the dawn of civilization. And their 1947 borders only grew after they were attacked and threatened with extinction.
Again, the Left always claims that its anti-Israelism has had nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
But it is almost impossible now to make that distinction when woke criticism obsesses over democratic Israel and ignores far greater oppressors and oppressed elsewhere.
Why are there no demonstrations in major Western cities damning the Communist Chinese government that has put 1 million Muslim Uighurs in camps? Why are the world’s millions of former refugees—the Volga Germans, the East Prussians, the Cypriot Greeks—long ago forgotten, and yet the Palestinians alone deified as perpetually displaced by the Jews?
Our formal NATO ally, Turkey, received little global pushback for its treatment of the Kurds, or its frequent intolerance of religious minorities. Why then does the Jewish state alone always earn such venom?
Hating democratic Israel while it is under attack is not just a reflection of the new woke and ethically bankrupt Left. It is also a symptom of a deeper pathology in the West, one of moral equivalence, amoral relativism—and self-loathing.
Hating Israel, then, has become the surrogate Western way of hating oneself.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won and The Case for Trump.
Photo “Free Palestine March” by Alisdare Hickson. CC BY-SA 2.0.
An Iowa judge ruled on Tuesday that a teenage human trafficking victim must serve five years of closely supervised probation and pay $150,000 in restitution to the family of her accused rapist, whom she stabbed to death.
Pieper Lewis was a 15-year-old runaway seeking to escape an abusive life with her stepmother when she killed her accused rapist, 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, in June 2020, by stabbing him more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment.
Lewis, now 17, has maintained that she was trafficked against her will to Brooks for sex multiple times and stabbed him in a fit of rage.
Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually abused and trafficked. But officials argued that Brooks was asleep at the time he was stabbed, and did not present an immediate danger to her. . .
After Lewis ran away from her abusive stepmother, she was allegedly taken in by 28-year-old Cristopher Brown, who had found her sleeping in the hallways of an apartment building. She said Brown told her she couldn’t live with him for free, and he created an online dating profile to arrange for her to have sex with other men for money. . . .
During Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, Lewis’ lawyers accused Brown of aiding and abetting sex trafficking—but police have not yet pressed any charges.
Judge Orders Iowa Teen to Pay $150,000 to Family of Alleged Rapist She Killed | Epoch Times
As more Democrat operatives infiltrate American schools, the ugliness of what they are teaching children and attempting to indoctrinate their parents is becoming apparent. This indoctrination goes from kindergarten on through college.
“Earlier this month, an Old Dominion University (ODU) professor of sociology and criminal justice, Allyn Walker, brought global attention to a newer term, “Minor-Attracted Persons” or “MAPs” for short, within a greater argument that pedophiles shouldn’t be ostracized for their urges. Although ODU seemingly initially defended the comments, they eventually placed Walker on administrative leave. Walker, a transgender male, goes by they/them pronouns.” | Daily Wire
In the video below, an El Paso teacher appears to reprimand a student concerning pedophilia as others in the room appear to say, “no” and the video ends with the sound of someone starting to say, “What the f-?”.
The teacher has since been removed from the class on a 7 -0 vote, though Democrat establishment media has apparently made the concern a “far-right conspiracy theories” concern, as in My San Antonio .
The Democrat Party has always done a wonderful job of turning Americans against each other, by race, color and class, in order to stay in power. Krystle Matthews, South Carolina Representative and U.S. Senate Candidate (D) speaks candidly about how Democrats in power view, treat and segregate other Americans by color. Project Veritas is hated by the left, not for breaking the law, but for exposing the ugly underbelly of the Democrat Party.
Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell | Simon and Schuster
Facebook started the ball rolling in de-platforming and suppressing any story or journalist who mentioned any of the information coming from a laptop Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, left at a repair shop and turned over to the FBI (Daily Mail). Among some of the damning emails found were corrupt dealings with the Ukrainian company Burisma, including one thanking Hunter Biden for meeting Joe Biden. Joe Biden has consistently lied about meeting with Burisma executives.
The problem with the corrupt FBI’s plan of thwarting the story and flushing it down the Democrat Party’s dark hole is that the repair shop owner made a copy of the hard drive and gave it to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer. What has followed is one of the most massive cover-ups in American history, including some now famous and previously mysterious actions by the Democrat Party while Donald Trump was in office and now the Biden Justice Department under Merrick Garland:
From the moment Donald Trump decided to run for President of the United States, Democrats led by Hilary Clinton at once and with a straight face made the bizarre claim that Donald Trump was a xenophobe, caring only about America and going it alone while at the same time going against America and colluding with Russia. | New York Post
The FBI suppressed Tony Bobulinski’s testimony and a first hand account of Hunter and Joe Biden’s dealings with Burisma a month before Election 2020. | New York Post
FBI Raided Rudy Giuliani’s Office on April 27, 2021- “Federal agents raided Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office Wednesday, seizing computers and cellphones.”| AP News
Even American Left publications now admit, the FBI ‘Panty Raid’ had to do with the corruption in the files President Trump declassified and had at his home, secured by his Secret Service detail | Newsweek
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide | Available at Bookstores or Online | Bookshop, IndieBound, BAM!, Amazon
What will free people think when they look back at us and the way so many people blindly followed orders? It is probably what we think of NAZIs blindly following orders on how to behave and what to think: how could they have been so willingly gullible?
In the photograph below (taken in May 2021), we see high school athletes outdoors wearing masks, some fainting from lack of oxygen. Notice that many people wearing masks are not even near each other. It’s clear that an Orwellian 1984 has taken over much of the world’s population.
Officials in Oregon eased their mask requirement for athletes after a coach blamed a runner collapsing after a race on her mask.
“At the end of a recent 800-meter race in Oregon, a high-school runner named Maggie Williams got dizzy, passed out and landed face-first just beyond the finish line. She and her coach blamed her collapse on a deficit of oxygen due to the mask she’d been forced to wear, and state officials responded to the public outcry by easing their requirements for masks during athletic events.
But long before the pandemic began, scientists had repeatedly found that wearing a mask could lead to oxygen deprivation. Why had this risk been ignored?
One reason is that a new breed of censors has been stifling scientific debate about masks on social-media platforms. When Scott Atlas, a member of the Trump White House’s coronavirus task force, questioned the efficacy of masks last year, Twitter removed his tweet. When eminent scientists from Stanford and Harvard recently told Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that children should not be forced to wear masks, YouTube removed their video discussion from its platform. These acts of censorship were widely denounced, but the social-media science police remain undeterred, as I discovered when I recently wrote about the harms to children from wearing masks.”
One day after Joe Biden’s September 1, 2022, speech vilifying “MAGA Republicans”, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German was murdered. The Clark County Public Administrator, Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by police SWAT officers for the September 2, 2022, murder. What was Jeff German’s crime? He exposed the Democrat politicians’ corruption. And we all know, from Hilary Clinton’s classified emails to Hunter Biden’s laptop, you must never expose a Democrat’s malfeasance.
Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by police SWAT officers hours after investigators served a search warrant and confiscated vehicles in the criminal probe of the killing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the newspaper.
Sharyl Attkisson, the epitome of girl power, is a fantastic journalist. It is no wonder the Obama administration hacked into her computer. So what is the real story when it comes to vaccines and the CDC: lies and coverups that do not allow parents to make good, informed decisions.
The real problem with movies like “Vaxxed” and journalists’ articles on the CDC that actually do straight investigative reporting is the CDC does not come out looking very good. It follows, according to the Corporate and Political Establishment, that these movies must be banned and these journalists must be stopped.
Get it?
“According to Thompson, he and his fellow CDC scientists covered up a link between MMR vaccine and autism in African-American boys. “The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism,” Thompson later testified.
Dr. William Thompson, PhD
CDC officials disposed of study documents “in a huge garbage can”
As part of the alleged fraud and coverup, Thompson said he and the other CDC scientists who conducted the research got together and literally trashed study data.
Thompson first revealed his role in the fraud during a series of phone conversations with the parent of an autistic child. The parent surreptitiously recorded the calls, in which Thompson confessed and said he lived with tremendous guilt.”
ABC (owned by Disney Corporation) is a good example of how corporate media uses key words without reference to get us to stay away from news, individuals, and media that go against the corporate narratives. One of the most used words is “debunked”.
‘The film in question, “Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Conspiracy,” examines a now-debunked theory linking autism to vaccines. It is directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced former doctor who published a study blaming vaccines for the rise in autism. The study has since been discredited.’ ~ ABC Go
So, what is in this documentary that scares the Corporate Establishment and CDC that they have done everything they can to suppress it? Just this: the CDC destroyed crucial data in determining the harm to infants given the MMR vaccine.
“I was involved in deceiving millions of taxpayers regarding the potential negative side effects of vaccines. We lied about the scientific findings. The CDC can no longer be trusted to do vaccine safety work. It can’t be trusted to be transparent. The CDC can’t be trusted to police itself. Just a few thoughts.”
William W. Thompson, PhD, Senior Scientist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In 2013, biologist Dr. Brian Hooker received a call from a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who led the agency’s 2004 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and its link to autism.
The scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that the CDC had omitted crucial data in their final report that revealed a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. Over several months, Dr. Hooker records the phone calls made to him by Dr. Thompson who provides the confidential data destroyed by his colleagues at the CDC. Then COVID hit and once again, the CDC went into high gear colluding with big tech to censor free discussions and whistleblowers : https://greatbloggers.com/big-tech/some-people-just-like-to-be-fooled-again-and-again-cdc-withheld-covid-19-data-cnbc/
To support Dr. Wakefield and this film and battle against censorship, the enemy of science, go here: https://vaxxedthemovie.com/
Suspects In Mass Killings Via Knife Attacks In Canada
‘At least 11 people are dead and 19 injured, counting both of the alleged perpetrators, after a stabbing rampage that began on the James Smith Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan early Sunday morning. . . The deceased and injured were found at 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby town of Weldon, Sask. . .
The James Smith Cree Nation comprises three communities, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band. Chiefs and councillors of the communities unanimously declared a state of emergency Sunday night “in response to the numerous murders and assaults on members of James Smith Cree Nation during the morning hours of Sept. 4, 2022.” A statement from the First Nation said two emergency operations centres had been set up to provide support to residents.’
As on election night 2020 it definitely looks like Joe Biden’s mysterious 81 million voters were nowhere to be found. “Donald Trump and Joe Biden Both held rallies in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania this week. Here is what they looked like back to back. Incredible.” ~ Benny Johnson
#PedoHitler has paved the road for Trump’s return to the Oval Office.
Imagine Trump giving a national unity speech this week that offers respect to Democratic voters while listing all 15 of the major hoaxes from their leadership. pic.twitter.com/Kf3eRotunb
The U.S. government is attempting to withhold many of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s email communications with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Defendants object to this Request as overbroad because it calls for documents that are not relevant to Plaintiffs’ claims and that do not fall within scope of discovery authorized by the Court,” government lawyers said on behalf of Fauci and the agency he directs, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in a brief made public this week.
The suit, brought by two states, triggered the release of hundreds of emails between government officials and Big Tech workers.
But none of the released material came from Fauci, even though his agency was asked in a discovery request to provide all communications with Zuckerberg from Jan. 1, 2020, to July 18, 2022.
A federal judge ordered defendants to comply with discovery requests concerning “the identity of federal officials who have been and are communicating with social-media platforms about [misinformation and] any censorship or suppression of speech on social media, including the nature and content of those communications.”
The request for communications between Fauci and Zuckerberg is overbroad because it doesn’t specify communications concerning misinformation, the new filing states.
“Further, to the extent this Request seeks any purely internal documents or records, Defendants object to the Request as not proportional to the needs of the case, as it would require an extensive search of internal records that would not be possible to complete in the expedited period provided for current discovery and would be unnecessary in light of the external documents Defendants have agreed to produce,” they said. “Defendants also object to this Request to the extent it seeks documents protected by the deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, law enforcement privilege, a statutory national security privilege, or any other applicable privilege.”
FBI Agent Robert Fitzpatrick was the number 2 man in the Boston FBI office in the 1980s.
60 Minutes question: John Connelly, an FBI agent, “has been involved in a murder?”
FBI Agent Fitzpatrick: “Yes, sir .”
60 Minutes question: “Do you hold other FBI agents, the bureau itself responsible for these murders?” FBI Agent Fitzpatrick: “I do.”
But the FBI is beyond corruption . . . right.
Whitey Bulger wasn’t found until Donald Trump ridiculed the FBI over the whole fiasco. When he was found, he was charged, convicted and then moved to a prison where it was sure he would be killed. He was moved after he said he was going to ‘spill the beans’ on the FBI. His killers were ‘tipped off’ that he was arriving, making his murder all but assured.
Anthony Fauci sent money to China to create gain-of-function viruses and actually admitted it, to the dismay of the Administrative State and the current Left. The problem is, Fauci admitted that these viruses WERE being manipulated in the Wuhan Lab as far back as 2021. He admitted the whole thing: bat to human interface experiments, gain-of-function, U.S. taxpayer dollars being used to fund the research, specifically in the Wuhan Lab, and the inability to guarantee safety. All the while, our own government officials and corporate media continued to gaslight the American public and called the idea that COVID-19 was produced in a lab and funded by American dollars “a conspiracy theory”.
Dr. Mercola has once again been targeted by the New York Times. The original article about Dr. Mercola, published by the New York Times, had to be changed due to the misinformation being spread by the Times itself! In this video, you can find the expert class, including Bill Gates, who is not a medical doctor, but does have a lot of money and is heavily invested in Big Pharma, giving all the wrong answers and recommendations, while the ‘conspiracy theorists’ had it right all along when it came to COVID-19. This is part of the response by Dr. Mercola about who has really been disseminating misinformation.
‘A scathing internally initiated review of how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handled COVID-19 has found that its approach toward the pandemic failed to meet the moment of crisis, and offered a series of changes intended to revamp the agency and make it more nimble. . .
As part of the suggested solutions, Walensky committed to sharing scientific findings and data faster, rather than at the typical speed for academic publication.
“Produce data for action” rather than “data for publication,” said a CDC briefing document summarizing the changes.’
For those of us in academia who, for legal and collegial reasons, cannot openly tell the public certain things we know through our own research and that of our colleagues that contradict political and financial interests, none is bigger in our current time than the idea of “Global Warming”. However, those of us in the scientific community have known for some time that the evidence is clear that the obvious is true: solar activity has a pronounced effect on our weather and rain patterns through cloud formations.
As usual, when funding is in question, politics in science is unfortunately part of the equation. So scientists always have to be careful about what they say and how they say it so they don’t lose their funding. A Conspiracy Theory? No, Conspiracy Fact.
Americans must be willing to look with clear eyes at the institutions and information we’re given with open and discerning minds. Many clues come hidden in articles that appear to tell us one thing, while subtly letting us know an opposing view is possible and even more likely.
“Many estimates have been made of the effect that long-term trends in solar cycles could have on global climate. Computer models suggest, if the Sun’s irradiance consistently increased or decreased for many decades that the average temperature on Earth would change as well. While the magnitude of those changes would likely be small – around a couple of tenths of degrees in the global mean, because solar irradiance changes slowly on decadal time scales – there is some evidence for solar-cycle related regional enhancements of the effects in the North Atlantic and surrounding regions.”
‘While the solar cycle is not yet at its peak, the space agency said activity has already surpassed predictions. Solar flares and eruptions will likely increase from now until 2025, as we reach “solar maximum,” writes Nicola Fox, the director of NASA’s heliophysics division.’
Solar flares will increase, cause problems on Earth through 2025, NASA says | Wane
It’s official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
Like the quiet before a storm.
Recently researchers announced that a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.
Researchers say a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years | NASA
The Global Warming crowd and the Left have made great advances in creating an ignorant, compliant base. For those of us who love science, the world isn’t as scary as it seems.
“The sun is certainly feeling forceful these days, as it is generating a surge of space weather to herald the start of its maximum of an 11-year solar cycle of activity.”
Powerful solar flare lashes Earth, causes radio blackout across Europe and Africa | Live Science
Dr. David Kessler, chief science officer of the White House Covid-19 response team, and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky (Pool photo by Amr Alfiky)
Corporate media will pounce on dissent based on real science and data if it goes against the official, that is to say, the Administrative State or corporate narratives. This is especially true in recent times when it comes to COVID-19. But buried in the bowels of its own writings, you can find glimmers of the truth. It’s always buried deep in articles that mostly try to cover up administrative state and corporate malfeasance.
As far back as February, 2022, everyone in the scientific community, the medical community and mainstream corporate media knew the truth.
What is the real reason the CDC has lied to the American public about the data collected on the so-called COVID-19 ‘vaccine’?
“But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.”
The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects | The New York Times
It’s hard to believe the depths of corruption in the Democrat Party until you remember the Democrat Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan, the party of Jim Crow laws, the party of Tammany Hall. Its corruption reaches across the entire United States and has been a stain on America since its inception.
“On the first visit, archivist David Paynter provided the box of records that he said contained the FBI reports of interviews conducted by FBI agents on Foster’s death.
On a second visit, archivist James Mathis provided what he said were those same documents.
While the box contained dozens of FBI reports concerning Foster’s death – including interviews with the medical examiner, U.S. Park Police officers, and White House aides about the contents of Foster’s office – the reports on Hillary Clinton’s role in his death were absent.”
Missing: FBI files linking Hillary Clinton to the ‘suicide’ of White House counsel Vince Foster have vanished from the National Archives – The Daily Mail
In the Serbo-Croat language the communists have a phrase for true democrats who consent to collaborate with them for “democracy.” It is Koristne Budale, or Useful Innocents. Raditsa rendered this crucial phrase as “Useful Innocents”, but a more direct translation of “Koristne Budale” into English yields “Useful Fools”. ~ Quote Investigator
Here is another of the real reasons the establishment hates President Donald Trump. “I don’t want their money. I’m going to do what’s right for the American public. . . and I’m the only one up here who can say that.” Donald Trump responding to donors who hated the fact he wanted transparency in politics for the American public, not a bought and paid for politician.
In 2016, the final chapter of a congressional report on the attacks was declassified. The document named people who knew the hijackers after they arrived in the U.S. and helped them get apartments, open bank accounts and connect with mosques. It said some hijackers had connections to, and received support from, people who may be connected to the Saudi government. The document said information from FBI sources suggested at least two people who assisted the hijackers may have been Saudi intelligence officers.
But it didn’t reach a conclusion on complicity, saying while it was possible the interactions could reveal proof of Saudi government support for terrorism, there were also possibly more innocuous explanations for the associations.
The FBI conducted its own investigation, Operation Encore, with some agents drawing a tighter link.
One former agent, Stephen Moore, stated in a 2017 declaration that al-Qaida wouldn’t have sent Hazmi and Mihdhar to the U.S. “without a support structure in place.” He said he believed Bayoumi was a “clandestine agent” and that Thumairy knew the hijackers “were on a complex pre-planned mission” that would involve the use of airplanes. He said he’d concluded that Saudi Arabian diplomatic and intelligence personnel had knowingly given support to two of the hijackers.
Families of the 9/11 victims are hoping to prove similar allegations. They believe the entire story has not been revealed because of the U.S. government’s reluctance for a full accounting. Any new evidence they might surface could be politically explosive given Saudi Arabia’s role as a Middle East partner.
Twenty-one family members and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks wrote to the White House on Monday, pleading with President Obama to release 28 classified pages from a congressional report into the al Qaeda strike.
The advocates implored Obama not to waste any time releasing the secret portion of a 2003 report that is believed to contain details linking the government of Saudi Arabia to 9/11.
{mosads}“Not a single day of further delay can be justified,” the survivors and family members wrote.
The advocates urged the Obama administration to go above and beyond those 28 pages and offer more sweeping evidence connecting the Saudi kingdom with the 2001 terror attack.
The 28 pages should be “only a first step in responding to the public calls for transparency and accountability,” they wrote.
“As you know, this September will mark the 15th anniversary of the horrific attacks that claimed the lives of our innocent loved ones, and transformed our nation and world,” they told the White House in their letter. “We know from our efforts since that day to pursue justice on behalf of our loved ones that individuals and institutions that bear culpability for their murders — many of them Saudi — have never been held to account.
“We are encouraged that you have initiated a process to address that injustice, and look forward to working with you and your administration in any way possible towards that goal.”
In addition to their letter, the 9/11 families gave the White House nine categories of records they believe should also be declassified, including records from the 9/11 Commission and documents connecting Saudi religious institutions to al Qaeda.
There has never been any conclusive proof tying senior levels of the Saudi government to al Qaeda ahead of 9/11, but scrutiny around a possible connection has lingered for years.
Saudi leaders have repeatedly rejected the allegations and have said that the pages should be released to quell any speculation.
Here are the files that President Trump fought to declassify. Just another action that removed the veil behind incompetence and lies of the Administrative State against the American people and our right to know what unelected officials are doing in our name.
Trump exposing how the highest level of law enforcement was used to protect the Bin Laden family is only one of the many reasons the administrative state hates President Donald J Trump.
According to the New York Times, the Bin Laden family WAS “driven or flown” to Texas and then Washington, BEFORE airports were opened for the rest of America,
“The young members of the bin Laden clan were driven or flown under F.B.I. supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas and then to Washington from where they left the country on a private charter plane when airports reopened three days after the attacks.”
When President Donald J Trump debated Jeb Bush, President Trump pointedly admonished the Bush Administration for flying the Bin Laden family out of the country. Following that debate, newspapers quickly came to rescue the establishment by stating the family was flown out of the country AFTER airports opened up. Actually, the FAA had issued and implemented a “stop and clear the airspace” (FAA National Archives) except for military operations and security of the President of the United States. . . . and, as Trump exposed, the Bin Laden Family.
“Two dozen members of Osama bin Laden’s family were urgently evacuated from the United States in the first days following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, according to the Saudi ambassador to Washington.”
Donald J Trump exposed the underbelly of the US Administrative state, and for doing so, is hated by the entrenched corrupt establishment. It’s a battle between corruption, greed, war profiteering and donors and lobbyists that look at our fellow Americans as mere fodder for their gaining power and wealth.
“In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America’s delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.
That’s quite an understatement.
Actually, the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled. Co-conspirators were let off the hook.
Case agents I’ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several 9/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.
Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads. A common excuse was “diplomatic immunity.”
