How Far Down Does the Rabbit Hole Go?

That's what came to mind as I read this post over at Troof Action:

What does trouble me though, is the belief that "The Mossad Did 9/11!" is exactly the message the Mossad wants the truth movement to put forth. I mean, look at the Dancing Israelis. They could have videoed the airstrikes on the towers quietly from a tall building in Jersey City,or a boat on the river, or from inside a van quietly. Instead they sent a bunch of guys dressed as Arabs to Liberty Park to attract attention.

Same thing with Larry Silverstein. "Silverstein confessed to blowing up Building 7" is exactly what he wants the truth movement to say. That way truthers mark themselves as just a peculiar flavor of Jew-haters.

See, the Mossad intentionally sent the Dancing Jews to film the towers so that they would get blamed for 9-11, so that people could dismiss the 9-11 Truth Movement as Jew-haters. But doesn't that mean that the Mossad knew about the attacks in advance, and therefore they were in on the plot? And Larry Silverstein must have been coached by his Rabbi to say "pull it" on national TV.

How many blows to the head would it take before that started to make some sense?

Fabled Enemies Part III: Dancing Jews

Alex Jones had mentioned a few months ago that this was the first film he'd been involved with that went into the Israeli connection. We get the story of the lady who phoned the police about the five dancing Jews outside her apartment. We get Michael Rivero, of What Really Happened talking about them. We get the supposed van full of explosives stopped outside of Manhattan, and the Israeli art students mystery.

(Note: The dancing Jews existed. I don't mention this much, but a client of mine who's Jewish and fanatically pro-Israel was the first person I talked to on 9-11 and his immediate comment to me was, "Now you know what Israel goes through every day." So I can imagine some Israelis reacting in an inappropriately celebratory manner, knowing that America had discovered what terrorism was all about.

The van full of explosives on the GWB did not. I don't know the truth or falsity of the Israeli art students story. If we catch Israelis spying in the US, I'm 100% in favor of arresting and imprisoning them.)

We're told that the Israelis routinely spy on the United States; this seems to be true from everything I've heard. The question is whether it's really sinister or just an example of the (justified) paranoia of that tiny country. I don't approve of their actions, but I understand them, and I would be the first to say that Jonathan Pollard should not be released.

Jason assumes that the Israelis had a prior knowledge of 9-11. He notes that one of the dancing Jews said that their purpose was to document the attacks; as somebody noted in the last post on this, the news cameras of CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS were also there to document the attacks; this does not mean that the news media knew beforehand.

This is another "Merry Pason" confession. The conspiracy theorists all seem to think that evil people are compelled to blurt out their guilt on TV.

We get something about a van exploding on King Street between 6th and 7th; this is the first I've heard of that. Then there's a discussion of an Israeli company that does the billing for most US phone calls. Carl Cameron points out that this means that they could track people; all very true, but you'd need a starting point.

Overall, Jason puts a lot of dots in this section, but does little connecting.

The Band Must Be Playing Hava Nagila

Because suddenly we've got the Dancing Jews again:



This is the Counterpunch article that got some attention a week or two ago, now available to read online. As we've discussed, there's little new here, and the author tries to fill in the gaps in his narrative with major weasel words:

Intense political pressure apparently had been brought to bear.

There is sufficient reason ­- from news reports, statements by former intelligence officials, an array of circumstantial evidence, and the reported acknowledgment by the Israeli government -­ to believe that in the months before 9/11, Israel was running an active spy network inside the United States, with Muslim extremists as the target.

What's incendiary is the idea -­ supported, though not proven, by several pieces of evidence ­- that the Israelis did learn something about 9/11 in advance but failed to share all of what they knew with American officials.

It brings up concerns not only about Israel's obligation not to spy inside the borders of the United States, its major benefactor, but about its possible failure to have provided the U.S. adequate warning of an impending devastating attack on American soil.

The Dancing Jews Redux

Justin Retardo couldn't resist the new CounterPunch article giving him a hook to republish his crap about the five dancing Jews and the Israeli art students.

The story of how this line of investigation was suppressed, both in the law enforcement community and in the media, is a saga in itself. I know that Ketcham worked on this story long and hard, and had supposedly firm commitments from both Salon.com and The Nation to publish his work. Both projects were killed at the last minute, in one case an hour before it was scheduled to run. What’s particularly stupid, in the case of Salon, is that they ran his previous piece, on the "Israeli Art Student Mystery," years ago – and now refuse to follow up their own story.

And the reason for this mysterious refusal? It's because Ketcham is just recycling the same old story, with no new revelations.

As usual, Retardo takes basic facts--that five Israelis were jailed on 9-11 for suspicious behavior, that some Israeli art students were trying to infiltrate the Drug Enforcement Adminstration--and tries to weave it into Israeli foreknowledge of 9-11. But of course, the weak link is always this last part.

Ketcham, utilizing the public record, news reports, and his own sources, has painted the clearest portrait yet of the "urban mover" Mossad cell, and how they shadowed the five hijackers who took over American Airlines flight 77, which struck the Pentagon to such devastating effect. Living, working, and socializing within a six-mile radius of Bergen County, these two groups circled each other until, on 9/11, as a dark pall fell over Manhattan and much of the rest of the world, one applauded the others’ handiwork.

Oooooh, they lived within a six-mile radius of the hijackers on Flight 77! Now, as it happens, I grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. According to the Census Bureau, Bergen County had a population density of 3,774 persons per square mile in 2000. A circle with a radius of 6 miles has an area of 113 square miles. Thus on average, there are approximately 425,000 people in a 6-mile radius in Bergen County, and that increases as you get closer to New York City, where the population is even denser.

Retardo isn't above patting himself on the back for his bravery in covering this story:

I have to tell you that it hasn’t been easy following this story over the years. I was told in the beginning, and in no uncertain terms, that this line of investigation is forbidden, that it’s "too hot to handle," and, implicitly, that the truth and the facts have to take second place to political correctness. To even mention this story, in certain quarters, is considered prima facie evidence of anti-Semitism. Case closed.

But hey, he's a tough guy and can handle the pressure; we can tell by that cigarette drooping from his lower lip.

Look, do I buy the notion that the Israelis may have been spying on the US, or on radical Muslim groups in New Jersey? Sure. Do I buy the possibility that the five dancing Jews may have insensitively celebrated the attacks because they saw it as waking up America to the dangers of terrorism? Sure. But do I buy that Raimondo and Ketcham have proven that Israel had foreknowledge of the attacks? Nope.

Update: For an exercise, check out the laughable comments on this story over at 9-11 Blogger. Remember, many of the Deniers don't believe that the hijackers existed and the rest think they were just "patsies", so Raimondo's claim that the Israelis were shadowing them causes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance, although of course many of them want to believe the Jews were responsible. When John Albanese rightly points out how hard it is to fit this into the rest of the conspiracy theory, they promptly vote his comment down three points. LOL!

They don't care if it fits any theory, it's just an opportunity to say, "Woo!"