Haaretz reports that Bibi Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan University:
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is
the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle
in Iraq," Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He
reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in
our favor."
It is true that many Americans came to think that we are in the same war Israel is in after 9/11. Podhoretz’s World War IV. I believed as much myself for a little while. But this belief, to be sustained over many years, requires stupidity, bad leadership, propaganda, racism, parochialism, or all of the above. Americans are stirring from their nightmare…
