Israel was not only the chief beneficiary of 9/11, they also had the strongest motive: President Bush and Saudi Arabia had reached an agreement on a peace proposal that would give Palestinian a state and force Israel to abandon her occupied and annexed territories( in essence, Israel removes occupation forces from Palestine and Golan Heights). This was poison pill for the GREATER ISRAEL Zionists and they needed an immediate counter punch to stop this peace intiative by Preside Bush and Saudi Arabia! The Jewish-American Israel-Firsters within our government warned the Israelis of the coming announcement and then 9/11 happened! Strange coincidence?
Marriage of Convenience : The U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Saudi Leader's Anger Revealed Shaky Ties
Bush's Response Eased a Deep Rift On Mideast Policy; Then Came Sept. 11
Washington Post Feb. 10
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"On Friday, Sept. 7, Bandar told U.S. officials that Saudi Arabia was "pleased and grateful," as one official put it, to discover that it had misread the Bush administration's attitude toward the Middle East. Saudi Arabia would continue to try to protect U.S. interests, he promised. The Americans indicated a willingness to pursue a new Mideast initiative immediately, Saudi officials said -- a sharp departure from the administration's policy for seven months.
Over the weekend of Sept. 8 and 9, officials of the two countries discussed what should happen next: a speech by Bush, or by Powell, or perhaps both? There was also discussion of a Bush-Arafat meeting at the United Nations later in September, an important point for the Saudis, who were pleased that Bush seemed willing to have the meeting. Powell left for a previously scheduled trip to Latin America on Monday, Sept. 10, with these decisions still pending.
Even without the final decisions, Bandar was euphoric. After months in what he called "a yellow mood" over the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, "suddenly I felt the same feeling I had as we were going to Madrid [to the peace conference that followed the Gulf War in 1991], that we really were going to have a major initiative here that could save all of us from ourselves -- mostly -- and from each other."
So "the happiest man in the world that night, on Monday night, was Bandar bin Sultan. I was in the [indoor] swimming pool [of the McLean residence], smoking a cigar. I gave myself a day off because I worked the whole weekend. I had been to Saudi Arabia . . . out with the [Bush] response, back with our response. I worked on the weekend up to 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock in the morning. . . . I worked all Monday. And I said to my office, Tuesday I'm taking the day off."
Tuesday was Sept. 11. Instead of a day off, Bandar got the worst crisis of his career. Dreams of a new Mideast peace initiative evaporated. The realization that most of the hijackers were Saudis "fell on me . . . like the whole house collapsed over my head," Bandar said later. He couldn't imagine a way to "do more damage or worse damage to Islam or to Saudi Arabia."
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