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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TH who wrote (60753)12/9/2002 7:44:54 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I wonder if 9/11 would have still happened if our support for Israel was no different than for any other country in the region/world.

This admittedly popular thesis just doesn't wash. 9/11 was in the financing and planning stages when the Oslo peace accords were being agreed on, of which if my memory is exact, Clinton was a key player. bin Laden's network had already made an attempt on the WTC, and had made several other notable terrorist attacks, long before this latest Intifada sprung up.

In short this "blame Israel" for 9/11 (and just about every other ill suffered by the Arab world) is just another argument trotted out by the Israel haters, and they never get tired of dreaming these things up.

bin Laden is (or was?) basically one of those nutcases (like Tim McVeigh) with delusions of grandeur coupled with bestial sadism. He was above all else looking out for personal power at the head of some future global Califate.
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