The Upside of the 9/11 attacks...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4a9aee65-dcb5-4afb-91df-c5b8199c39f4/70E0975C-47DF-40DC-96B4-B58FEC5EBB3D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html" href="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.prospectsforpeace.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html"><P>Yesterday my friend MJ Rosenberg  <A href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/16/netanyahu_911_good_for_israel/">noted </A>what, according to former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, was  the upside of 9/11 (you read that correctly).  Here's what Netanyahu had to say  at a speech at Bar  Ilan University:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html"><P>We are benefiting from one  thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers  and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq…[events  that] swung American public opinion in our favor.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html"><P>He uttered these words at Bar Ilan  University as reported by  the Ma'ariv newspaper—it seems the speech was in Hebrew (read: something we  weren't supposed to know about).  But MJ reminds us that is nothing new for  Netanyahu. Here is what he said in September 2001: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html"><P>It's very good. Well, not very good, but it will  generate immediate sympathy…[and] strengthen the bond between our two peoples,  because we've experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has  now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/04/a_friend_for_all_seasons.html">So sayeth the best friend that  American neocons have in Israel</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/70E0975C-47DF-40DC-96B4-B58FEC5EBB3D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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