Thy Greatest Ally Part Two - False Flags and Tumbling Towers

On the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, it's only fitting that we take time to look back on that fateful day and the plans that were set in motion when nearly 3,000 innocent people lost their lives in Manhattan.

The first part of this series explored the creation of the modern state of Israel, along with a (relatively small) sample of some of the war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel has carried out in its short existence.

Today, we'll be talking about Israel's history of false flag attacks - attacks designed to look like another group or nation carried them out in order to advance an agenda, typically as justification to go to war.

Humanity has a long history of using such tactics throughout our recorded past.

Sometimes, rather than being explicitly planned covert operations, false flags are merely situations or accidents that happen naturally which are manipulated after the fact to serve a goal - the Gulf of Tonkin incident is perhaps the best example of this.

In 1964, the United States destroyer USS Maddox engaged three North Vietnamese torpedo boats while conducting intelligence-gathering patrols off the coast of North Vietnam. The Maddox recorded a single bullet hole in its hull as the only damage it sustained in the incident, and the event on its own certainly wasn't enough to justify escalation.

Yet two days later, the USS Maddox and another destroyer, the USS Turner Joy, reported a second attack in the middle of the night on rough seas and amidst heavy rain.

Crew members genuinely believed they were under fire, leading to retaliatory orders. Faced with a second attack in as many days which seemingly dismissed the plausibility of an accident, Lyndon B. Johnson's administration passed a resolution granting the President broad authority to conduct military operations in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war, effectively allowing the United States to enter into the Vietnam War.

The problem of course was that the second attack never happened - the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy's crews misread signals on radar and sonar reports, which combined with adverse weather and the high-stress conditions they found themselves in after the incident just a few days earlier, made them genuinely believe they were under attack.

Later declassified documents showed that the Johnson administration and officials from intelligence agencies quickly realized that the "attack" was a mistake, yet intentionally skewed reports and covered up the reality of the situation in order to manufacture a pretext for military escalation.

It may not have been planned in advance, but US leadership saw a golden opportunity to turn a mistake into a false flag operation that successfully accomplished their goals.

In the modern sense of the term however, people often use "false flag" in a more loosely-fitting manner to encompass events that genuinely were perpetrated by the group or nation that is accused of carrying them out, but were allowed to happen by other groups in order to further their own agenda.

For example, if a country knows a terrorist attack is going to happen beforehand, but they do nothing to stop it, or even actively help it along without directly participating in the attack itself. This tragedy is then used to push their own agenda and comes without the risk of being caught perpetrating the act itself.

There is actually a separate term for this - a LIHP, or "Let It Happen on Purpose" - but as that sounds pretty dumb and certainly not as cool as a "false flag attack", most people still refer to such incidents colloquially as false flag attacks anyway, and as such I include both types for the purposes of this article.

LIHPs are the preferred form of such operations in modern times, as it obviously cuts down on risks and even if the public is presented with information that indicates a country's intelligence agencies or administration knew about an attack prior to it happening, they can always claim good ol' incompetence was why the attack wasn't prevented.

Plausible deniability is the name of the game today, and America is inarguably the champion of that game.

Given their increasingly intertwined relationship, while Israel is the focus of this series, the United States features prominently in this article, with their involvement in 9/11 being the biggest focus (Israel does however play a role in that story, read on to find out more).

The United States, outside of the Gulf on Tonkin incident which just barely constitutes such a thing, haven't been confirmed to have committed any false flag attacks, but there is undisputed proof they did plan a rather appalling false flag operation which I'd like to point out for anyone that thinks the US wouldn't commit such acts against their own citizens.

Operation Northwoods was a planned op proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1962. Following the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, the covert project proposed committing terrorist attacks on various American targets and blaming them on Cuba in order to justify a full-scale invasion of the island.

These plans proposed shooting down US Air Force aircraft near Cuba, blowing up a US ship, shooting down a passenger plane full of US civilians, and orchestrating fake terror campaign bombings in various US cities like Miami and Washington D.C.

All five Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on the plan and the proposal was presented to President John F. Kennedy; Kennedy roundly rejected the proposal and ordered the plans destroyed.

These documents were only declassified nearly forty years later - governments love to confirm "conspiracy theories" decades after the fact, only after the people involved are either dead or in nursing homes of course, in order to claim the newer staff are "transparent" and they would never do such things today.

It may not have been executed, but the fact that such an appalling plan made it all the way to the President's desk before receiving any pushback should be a massive wake-up call, and this is only what the US government has openly admitted to.

While the US hasn't been definitively caught perpetrating a full-on false flag attack, they do stand credibly accused of committing several in recent years, most notably the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline in 2022.

This attack, which severely hurt Germany and several other European nation's economies, was incredulously blamed on Russia by both America and its NATO allies, despite the fact Russia built the pipeline itself and massively benefitted from its use; Ukrainians have since been blamed and while they were almost certainly involved, there is ample evidence that the US facilitated or at the very least aided the sabotage, despite the fact it hurt allied NATO economies far more than it hurt Russia.

Israel, meanwhile, has been caught red-handed attempting to actually execute multiple false flag attacks in its short history. It's also involved in perhaps the two largest "LIHPs" in recorded history which will be covered today, so without further ado, let's dive in.

The Lavon Affair / Operation Susannah

Israel (and the Zionists vying to form it before the state was officially declared) have a long history of disguising themselves as Arabs in order to carry out atrocities - as we learned in part one of this series, Israeli agents went as far as to poison drinking water with typhus while disguised as Arabs during Operation Cast Thy Bread in 1948 - so it's no surprise that they also have a lengthy history of carrying out (or attempting) false flag operations.

Such operations got far more sophisticated over the decades to come, but back in 1954, Israel was still in its formative years when plans for Operation Susannah were hatched.

Just six years after becoming an official state, Israel faced an impending crisis - Great Britain controlled the Suez Canal in Egypt, and the Egyptian government under President Gamal Abdel Nasser was pressuring the British to withdraw their troops and return control over the zone to Egypt.

Without the British military creating a "buffer zone" between them, Israeli officials greatly feared President Nasser would then move to attack Israel, therefore they needed to convince the British military to stay - or, even better, go to war with Egypt for them.

Israel's military intelligence branch came up with Operation Susannah as a means to that end: a series of terrorist attacks on British and western targets within Egypt that would convince western governments that Egypt was too volatile for British troops to safely withdraw from the Suez Canal and allow Egypt to control such a vital international trade route.

Israel recruited a cell of Egyptian Jews to carry out firebombings on local post offices, British- and American-owned libraries, metro stations, and theatres and ensure they were blamed on Egyptian extremists, the Muslim Brotherhood, or even communists - the more chaos, the better.

The cell's terrorist attacks were thankfully a catastrophic failure - the bombs used in these attacks caused minimal damage and no casualties, with Egyptian police quickly capturing the cell members, executing two of them and jailing several others (two of the Israeli terrorists later committed suicide in prison).

The operation's failure in Egypt was remarkably similar to Operation Cast Thy Bread from six years prior - while that op succeeded in poisoning some areas of Palestine, their attempt in Gaza was foiled by Egyptian authorities and had four Israeli soldiers who had disguised themselves as Arabs executed as a result, with Egypt exposing the plot only for Israel to deny it vehemently.

This time, however, unlike in the well-poisoning case which wasn't directed at western forces and so could be easily dismissed by western powers, Israel lost significant standing with Britain and the United States as a result of the botched false flag operation regardless of Israel's denial.

A major part of the operation's failure was allegedly due to Avri Elad (real name Avraham Seidenberg), an Israeli agent sent to oversee the operation, actually being an Egyptian asset.

Elad is believed to have tipped off Egyptian authorities which led to the cell's capture while he managed to "escape" to Israel; Mossad's chief Isser Harel expressed suspicions of Elad upon his return, but Israel continued using Elad in operations until 1956 when he was caught trying to sell Israeli documents to the Egyptians and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In 1980, Mossad revealed evidence that Elad had been turned by Egypt even before Operation Susannah began - while he may have "betrayed" Israel, Elad's actions likely saved plenty of lives and exposed a treacherous terrorist plot by Israeli forces.

While the Jewish public was mostly kept in the dark thanks to the Israeli military's censorship laws, the operation's failure caused political turmoil which forced the Minister of Defense Pinhas Lavon to resign in February of 1955.

Investigations were never able to show Lavon had ever authorized the operation, which he vehemently denied. Lavon blamed Shimon Peres (then-Secretary General of the Defense Ministry) and Colonel Binyamin Gibli (then-Chief of Israel's military intelligence) for the op, who in turn both testified against Lavon.

Prime Minister Moshe Sharett sided with Peres and Gibli and forced Lavon to resign, with the scandal being known as "The Lavon Affair" ever since.

Later in 1960, a subsequent inquiry found inconsistencies that seemed to support Lavon's account of events, finding that it was likely intelligence chief Gibli who had ordered the operation behind Lavon's back. Unfortunately, it was too late for Lavon to save his reputation or have the entire ordeal renamed.

Shimon Peres, despite his probable involvement in the operation, would later be elected as Israel's Prime Minister on two separate occasions and was the longest serving member of the Knesset (Israel's legislative body) by the time he retired in 2014.

Israel vehemently denied any involvement in the operation for decades until in 2005 when they finally acknowledged the operation by "honouring" the surviving agents.

Yes, you read that right - the state publicly honoured agents who planned and/or participated in terrorist attacks against Israel's supposed allies, giving them certificates of appreciation and official ranks in the IDF for their "service".

Israel just can't seem to help itself from committing and celebrating terrorist attacks.

The USS Liberty

While Israel's earlier attempt at a major false flag operation against allied nations failed, the USS Liberty's crew weren't quite so lucky.

The USS Liberty, a US Navy research ship, was brutally attacked by Israeli forces in the Mediterranean Sea during the Six Day War.

The Six Day War was of course a "preemptive" strike by Israel against several neighbouring states, as we covered in part one of this series here.

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty was struck by multiple torpedoes from Israeli boats. Its deck was hit with napalm while fighter jet strafing runs took out its lifeboats, a clear violation of the Geneva Convention even against enemy combatants.

The assault took place for roughly two hours with the USS Liberty, which was not a ship designed for combat, unable to call for help thanks to their communications being jammed by the IDF during the attack.

The onslaught made it quite clear that Israeli forces were intent on leaving no survivors.

While the assault took place, then-US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara oddly recalled a group of jet fighters that nearby US carriers had dispatched to investigate reports of an attack on the vessel, leaving the USS Liberty to fend for itself.

In spite of this, the brave crew managed to get their vessel to safety courtesy of the waters around a pair of American destroyers, ultimately losing 34 service members in the attack with a further 171 wounded.

Officially, Israel blamed the attack on "misidentification" amidst the fog of war; the US government accepted these claims after their own investigation, despite the fact every single survivor of the Liberty refuted the validity of these claims.

The crew of course had ample reason to dismiss such an excuse.

The USS Liberty was clearly designated and had proudly sported an American flag on its deck at the time of the attack, something that was verified by every surviving Liberty crew member.

The incident occurred entirely during ideal weather conditions, making a continued misidentification after multiple strafing runs and multiple hours of attacks quite literally impossible.

Survivors of the attack were allegedly threatened with 10-year military prison sentences and $10,000 fines if they spoke out about the incident - according to one survivor, while he was recovering from his wounds in a hospital, the US Navy posted guards at the door to his room to ensure he couldn't speak to anyone about what happened.

Later, Israel paid a rather insulting sum to the US as an "apology" for their "mistake" - the families of the 34 men killed in the attack were given a portion of $3.32 million US, with $3.57 million total going to the 171 wounded service members. Israel later paid $6 million for damages to the ship.

Widows received just $25,000 as their payout, a pittance for the life of their spouse, whereas children over 5 years of age were given $10,000 for the loss of their father - children who were under 5 years old when their father was slain? They got nothing as they are "too young to understand trauma".

The more you look into the details of the investigation, the more damning the cover up becomes.

Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd Jr. presided over the investigation into the assault on USS Liberty, with Captain Ward Boston Jr. (JAGC) as senior legal counsel; they were given roughly one week by Admiral John S. McCain Jr. (the father of the late Senator John "Songbird" McCain) to complete the investigation and issue findings - despite both men privately estimating that a proper inquiry into an attack of this magnitude would require at least six months.

Admiral McCain explicitly directed that the team was not to travel to Israel or contact Israeli officials, a limitation Captain Boston later described as "highly unusual and obstructive".

In sworn statements and a detailed 2003 affidavit, Captain Boston recounted that he and Rear Admiral Kidd Jr. examined extensive survivor testimony, documentary evidence (including prior Israeli overflights of the clearly marked U.S. ship), and other materials that led them both to conclude privately that the prolonged air and naval assault was a deliberate attempt to sink the Liberty and kill its entire crew - Kidd even reportedly referred to the Israeli forces as "murderous bastards."

The killing of the entire crew would of course allow Israel to blame Egypt for the attack, which would be a clear act of war warranting the United States' entry into the conflict.

Many USS Liberty survivors also believe the attack was to prevent the ship from intercepting communications about Israel's military operations, possibly preventing the ship from uncovering alleged war crimes against Egyptian prisoners of war in the nearby Sinai Peninsula or catching them violating active ceasefires with other countries.

Captain Boston further stated that Kidd confided to him, after returning from a trip to Washington, that President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had ordered the Court to rule the incident a case of "mistaken identity" despite all of the evidence to the contrary, and that Kidd was directed to rewrite portions of their findings to "put the lid" on further discussion.

The official report, completed on June 18, 1967 and endorsed by Admiral McCain just ten days after the incident, thus concluded mistaken identity was the reason for the attack.

Captain Boston's claims of Israel having knowingly targeted an American vessel have since been further corroborated not only by survivor's accounts, but by the NSA's release of tapes of intercepted radio transmissions between Israeli pilots who engaged in the attack. These tapes clearly dispute several of the Israeli claims, such as that there was no American flag present and that they didn't continue attacking the ship once they had confirmed it was indeed a friendly vessel.

Despite those releases, the US government still has troves of documents related to the incident that remain classified to this day.

At best, which involves giving Israel one hell of a lot of benefit of doubt that they have proven time and again to not deserve, it was an initial mistake by Israeli forces that was then turned into an opportunity by military leaders, who opted to try and kill all of the USS Liberty's sailors to cover up that mistake and/or to turn it into an opportunity to drag America into doing the fighting for them.

If that wasn't enough, the Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum in Haifa, Israel, still features one of the USS Liberty's lifeboats recovered from the scene, displayed almost like a trophy next to a wheel and bell taken from the Israeli motor boat that hit the vessel with a torpedo.

With friends like Israel, who needs enemies?

The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and 9/11

Let me start by saying this: no one (at least publicly) has definitive proof that the US or Israeli governments were responsible for 9/11.

No one has publicly released proof that the 19 Al Qaeda hijackers (15 from Saudi Arabia, 2 from the United Arab Emirates, 1 from Egypt, and 1 from Lebanon) did not fly those planes into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers (and the Pentagon).

No one is even accusing the US or Israel of directly perpetrating the attacks.

What we do have in abundance however, is proof that the official story provided by the 9/11 Commission and the US government has major holes and is not the full or accurate depiction of what happened.

What we do have is a metric fuckton of circumstantial evidence that supports the fact that the Israel and US governments (or at least portions of them) knew far more about the impending terrorist attack than anyone would like to admit and allowed these attacks to happen (and possibly nudged them along).

What we do know and has now become pretty widely accepted history is that 9/11 served as a catalyst for major changes to the American way of life and political system, namely the expansive elimination of American rights and freedoms thanks to the PATRIOT Act which was hastily passed following the tragedy, as well as a string of wars in the middle east which have sewn chaos around the globe, have left millions of people dead, and continue to cause major issues to this day.

This article is just the tip of the iceberg, as there are plenty of rabbit holes to go down when it comes to the truth surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but I've done my best to lay out some of the most prominent "coincidences" and facts surrounding both the lead-up and actual day of the attacks without venturing too far into any particular rabbit holes.

We'll start all the way back in 1993 with the World Trade Center bombing and go forward chronologically.

Many are unaware (or have forgotten as it was obviously overshadowed) that the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 was not the first attack of its kind on the world-famous Twin Towers.

On February 26, 1993, a group of terrorists from multiple middle eastern countries blew up a van under the WTC's North Tower with a roughly 680 kilogram bomb.

The explosive was meant to topple the North Tower and cause it to fall onto the adjacent South Tower, destroying both of the iconic skyscrapers and killing tens of thousands of people in one fell swoop.

The attack, according to the terrorists involved, was an act of revenge for America's support of Israel during their occupation of Palestine.

The bomb ended up killing six innocent people and one unborn child, injuring over 1,000 others, but luckily the mighty North Tower stood tall and the plot failed to deliver the results the terrorists intended.

In time, evidence would present itself that this may have been a "LIHP" or Let It Happen on Purpose type of false flag operation.

Emad Salem, an FBI informant and a key witness in the trial of several of the perpetrators of the bombing, stated on the record that the bomb itself was built under supervision of the FBI.

During his time as an FBI informant, Salem recorded many hours of telephone conversations with his handlers; though these tapes have not been made public, the New York Times after hearing the tapes stated it was never clear that the FBI knew of the exact target, only that the bomb was being built and they knew of the people involved.

Salem alleged that an unnamed FBI supervisor declined to move forward on a plan that would have used a "phony powder" to fool the conspirators into believing that they were using genuine explosives, instead allowing the terrorists to use real explosives which would of course allow the group to ultimately carry out the attack.

Even if they weren't sure of the target, the fact that the FBI allowed such a device to be made in America by a group of terrorists should raise everyone's eyebrows.

On that day as over 50,000 people were evacuated from both WTC towers, Otis Elevator employees on site bravely stayed inside to help first responders get the towers' occupants out.

Otis Elevator, which had over a century in expertise and had engineered and installed the 198 elevators in the Twin Towers in addition to many more in the complex's other buildings, had continued to maintain and service those elevators since the buildings were first officially completed in 1973.

For their bravery, just months later Otis Elevator lost the maintenance contract to a relatively tiny and unknown outfit from New Jersey named ACE Elevator, which took over maintenance duties beginning in 1994.

ACE Elevator's website (long since removed) claimed to have been in operation since 1980 or 1981, yet internet sleuths have failed to find any other work done by the company prior to their WTC contract, which was the largest elevator contract in the world at the time. In addition, they note it only had one small office in a residential area in New Jersey and one small office in New York, both of which were extremely small for a company with so many employees and the equipment they would have required.

Hold onto that info, as it becomes relevant later.

In 1995, the leader of Israel's opposition party (he would be elected Prime Minister for the first time in 1996) Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu published his book Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists.

In it, Netanyahu stated that if the west didn't wake up to the "suicidal nature" of militant Islam, that the next thing they'd see is that militant Islamists would bring down the World Trade Center.

He predicted that they would do this by setting off a nuclear device in the basement of the tower(s), effectively copying the 1993 WTC bombing but with a much more powerful device in order to be successful in a subsequent attempt.

After Netanyahu became Israel's Prime Minister in 1996, he was given a report from the IASPS, a Jerusalem-based think-tank, called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.

This report suggested a shift away from the "land for peace" policy that the UN had been advocating and for Israel to stop retreating from any captured territory - it also explicitly called for regime change to various hostile governments in the region, most prominently Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and called for extensive American support in order to carry out these plans.

The Clean Break report established a list of seven countries as primary targets for Israel's security - Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.

In 2000, another think tank, this one from an American group called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), released Rebuilding America's Defenses, a report which called for wars in the middle east but concluded that the American public wouldn't support any massive new foreign wars...unless a catastrophic event were to occur.

"Like a new Pearl Harbor".

Many co-signers and members of this political think tank later assumed very prominent positions in George W. Bush's administration - Dick Cheney became Bush's Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld became the Secretary of Defense, and Paul Wolfowitz became the Deputy Secretary of Defense, amongst others.

Following 9/11, Israel and America's actions and policies in the middle east followed the blueprints described in these two reports almost to the letter - including the PNAC's claim that the equivalent of a new Pearl Harbor would be needed to get the American public on board with any major new wars.

Back to 9/11's timeline specifically: in 1999 ACE Elevators was tasked with a long-term project that would modernize all of the elevators in the World Trade Center complex, a project that would still only be partially complete well into 2001.

In June 2001, an internal DEA report (which was leaked to the public early in 2002) detailed investigations into suspicious Israeli nationals posing as "art students" around federal facilities, noting that many of these supposed students had backgrounds in military intelligence, electronic surveillance, and some even had experience with explosives.

On July 24, 2001, Larry Silverstein, through his Silverstein Properties company, finalized and signed a 99-year, $3.22 billion lease agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - just 49 days prior to September 11th.

Silverstein's management notified tenants that adminsitrative and billing transitions would take effect starting in August 2001.

When he signed the lease, Silverstein took out a whopping $3.55 billion insurance policy for the properties, which included terrorism coverage; while many have pointed to the terrorism coverage as evidence of a conspiracy, this coverage wasn't unusual at the time given the prior 1993 bombing of the North Tower.

"Lucky" Larry, a Jewish man born in Brooklyn, is a real-estate mogul who happens to be a very close friend of one Benjamin Netanyahu, as detailed in public accounts by both men over the years.

According to both, Silverstein had weekly calls with Netanyahu stemming from a friendship started when Netanyahu served as Israel's ambassador to the UN in the 1980's, which saw the future Israeli Prime Minister make a name for himself in New York City.

Larry famously ate breakfast at "Windows of the World" each and every morning, a restaurant at the top of the North Tower.

Between September 6 and September 10, 2001, massive amounts of "put" options (effectively bets that a company's stock market value will go down in a certain period of time) were placed on United Airlines and American Airlines stock, with the volume of options placed on the stock being more than 90 times the norm for United Airlines and 60 times the norm for American Airlines, some rather peculiar trades.

Many Americans, and westerners in general, are unaware that on September 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally called George W. Bush to warn him that Russian intelligence had picked up troubling signs of an imminent, large scale terrorist campaign in the US via Al Qaeda. He described this threat as something that had been planned for a long time, though they were not aware of specific targets or perpetrators.

Then, on the morning of September 11, 2001, North American Aerospace Defence Command (commonly known as NORAD from an earlier acronym) ran a massive, multi-agency military exercise under the codename "Vigilant Guardian".

The drills were designed to test the military's reponse to various crisis scenarios in American airspace, including, coincidentally, simulations of hijacked commercial aircraft.

The existence of these drills on the very same day as real hijackings caused critical, fatal delays to the military response of the 9/11 hijackings.

With military pilots, radar operators, and commanders actively engaged in a simulation of crises and hijacked planes, the injection of real reports of hijackings caused mass confusion and chaos amongst air traffic control that delayed the scrambling of fighter jets and of obtaining authorization required to actually intercept hijacked craft in time.

The 9/11 Commission Report documents this confusion in detail - the fact that a system-wide military drill mirroring the exact nature of the attacks was occurring simultaneously is an undisputed matter of public record and just another "coincidence" on a day filled with them, and there are many more to get through.

Sometime around 7 am, five hijackers boarded United Airlines Flight 175 at the Logan Airport in Boston (the airport didn't use CCTV cameras at the time so precise times are unknown).

All five of those hijackers happened to pass through the single security checkpoint in Logan Airport that was operated by Huntleigh USA, which was contracted by United Airlines to handle security at said checkpoint. Huntleigh was a subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., a Dutch company founded by "former" members of Shin Bet (Israeli's internal intelligence agency) and El Al (Israel's national airline) security personnel.

Three months later another terrorist would attempt to blow up a US airplane by hiding a bomb in his shoe and was allowed through a security checkpoint run by ICTS International N.V. as well.

Civil lawsuits over Huntleigh's negligence following 9/11 were settled out of court, and no records can be found that show the company was ever investigated.

Back to the events of 9/11 specifically, at 8:37am, Boston air traffic control first contacted the military sector to report the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11; the military controller's response was "Is this real-world or exercise?".

Nine minutes later, American Airlines Flight 11 was flown directly into the World Trade Center's North Tower.

United Airlines Flight 175 would hit the South Tower just 17 minutes later.

In the minutes after, before either tower would collapse into its own foundations, Satam al-Suqami's passport would allegedly rain from the sky.

Suqami was one of the 15 Saudi Arabian hijackers involved in 9/11 and was onboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane which hit the North Tower.

Sometime in the short window after the towers were struck but before either had collapsed, a random passerby picked up Suqami's passport near Vesey Street in Manhattan, not far from the World Trade Center. This unidentified bystander handed the passport, which the FBI claims was soaked in jet fuel, to NYPD Detective Yuk H. Chin as he patrolled the street and left the scene without being identified.

So this passport was on board a plane that was flying roughly 466 miles per hour (750 km/h) when it slammed into a steel-core building, erupting into a fireball that instantly killed all of its passengers (along with many others) and started a jet-fuel sourced fire, yet managed to escape relatively unscathed and fall out of whatever was left of the plane, then out of the tower itself to find its way down to a nearby street.

Not one other passport from either AA Flight 11 (which had 75 innocent passengers plus crew) or UA Flight 175 (51 innocent passengers) was found amongst the debris even long after the rubble was cleared, let alone that morning, yet one of the 10 alleged hijackers just happened to have their passport in shockingly fine condition fall to the streets of Manhattan to be picked up by an unidentifiable person.

American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37am (that incident has many separate questions, improbabilities, and coincidences of its own, but we'll focus on the Twin Towers for this piece).

The South Tower would then collapse at 9:59am, 56 minutes after being hit with a Boeing 767.

The fourth and final hijacked flight, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at approximately 10:03am, after passengers and crew managed to fight back against the hijackers and prevent the plane from reaching its target (likely the White House but never confirmed).

The North Tower stood until 10:28am, 102 minutes after being struck, before it too turned into a pile of rubble and dust.

You may have noticed that the only two airlines which had its planes hijacked just happened to be American Airlines and United Airlines, the very same airlines that happened to have highly suspicious trading activity in the five days prior to the attack that was seen by no other airlines.

The 9/11 Commission even acknowledged these highly suspect trades in their final report, stating that "a single US-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to Al Qaeda purchased 95% of the airline puts" in question.

Because the commission deemed the investor had no ties to Al Qaeda, they claimed it had no connection to 9/11 - that's the extent of their findings on this massive red flag.

The US government has still never revealed who this institutional investor was who placed these massively profitable trades, and more importantly than ties to Al Qaeda, if that investor had any ties to the US or Israeli governments.

At the time of these attacks, where was ol' Lucky Larry?

No breakfast at Windows on the World for Lucky Larry that morning.

According to his own accounts, he was dressed and ready to go to his properties for a scheduled meeting that morning when his wife insisted he keep a dermatologist appointment that he had already brushed off once.

Except for that one interview where he was asked where he was on 9/11 and said "Well...you know...I was...home" before later in that same interview returning to his old dermatology story.

Whatever the actual reason, the lone morning Silverstein happened to not make his daily journey to the towers, just happened to be the day when they were destroyed. Both his son and daughter who worked in the Twin Towers, also happened to not be absent from work that day.

Larry wasn't the only well-connected man to have a similarly suspicious story.

Howard Lutnick, who I've written plenty about already, lost his brother and nearly the entire staff of his company Cantor Fitzgerald that day when he was dropping his son off for his first day of kindergarten.

Public schools started the prior week, though it's noted that private schools sometimes held different days and thus could be possible - yet his public accounts differ on whether he took his son to Horace Mann School or Park Avenue Synagogue for that fateful dodge of death.

Considering everyone knows where they were on 9/11, even if they were thousands of miles away, it's pretty hard to fathom that this kind of detail would be lost by someone when it literally saved their life.

One might think surely if he had any foreknowledge of what was about to happen, he'd have saved his brother and maybe some of his employees, but don't forget, Lutnick was a longtime neighbor and business partner of Jeffrey Epstein, and someone who publicly admitted to taking his own grandchildren to Epstein's island long after Epstein was a convicted pedophile.

Just look at this rather bizarre interview he gave that very week, in which it looked like the man couldn't stop himself from smiling.

Within days, salaries and health benefits for the families of the deceased employees were cut off by Lutnick.

Cantor Fitzgerald pursued and ultimately received a $135 million settlement related to business losses from 9/11, yet none of those funds went to victims families and instead went to the owners of the business, with Lutnick estimated to have pocketed $15-25 million or more personally for his ownership stake.

But don't worry, Howard personally donated $1 million to a charity he set up himself for the victims at his company, and dedicated 25% of profits over the next five years to that charity (which the company of course received tax writeoffs for, meaning it was an even lesser cost to the company overall) to make up for it.

Just watch the man giggle as Donald Trump talks about the one day Lutnick happened to not be in the trade center while his brother and hundreds of employees died in gruesome fashion.

But enough about slimey Lutnick, back to the events of 9/11.

On the fateful day, 83 ACE Elevator employees were on site between the two towers. Unlike the employees of Otis Elevators some eight years prior, all 83 fled the area as soon as the first plane hit, refusing to even answer questions for first responders despite many people being trapped inside malfunctioning or stalled elevators.

The Port Authority's emergency plan for the complex required mechanics to stay and help with rescues in an emergency event, yet no record has been found of any ACE employees being questioned as to why they didn't follow procedures; the company received massive backlash in the aftermath of the attacks (it went bankrupt in 2003), with defenders of the company stating they had no obligation to risk their lives to try and help.

Indeed nobody was legally required to stay and help, however, nobody was even asking them to go back into the towers or risk their lives, but simply answer the questions of first responders to help them be able to save lives, something they could have easily done outside over radios.

Weirdly, ACE Elevator appears nowhere in the 9/11 Commission reports or associated files, not even as experts on the elevator systems despite the fact that the 9/11 Commission's explanation of the tower's collapse relies heavily on the elevator shafts (more on this shortly).

And then there's the "dancing Israelis", the most damning evidence tying Israel to foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

After the towers collapsed, New Jersey police detained five Israeli nationals in Union City. The five men had parked their white work van at an overlook with a direct line-of-sight to the World Trade Center, and were witnessed taking photographs and video of the burning Twin Towers while appearing "jovial" and reportedly even high-fiving.

Although they are commonly referred to as the dancing Israelis, they were not witnessed actually dancing, with these five men being conflated with reports of Israelis dancing in the streets elsewhere following the attacks - instead, along with witness reports, the FBI's investigators noted that based on pictures of the men taken by said witnesses, the men appeared visibly happy or celebratory.

After the five men had left the area, police pulled their van over - bomb-sniffing canines indicated the presence of explosives in the van and samples were taken, with the only FBI files revealed to the public still showing these samples were "pending results", thus no public information is available as to whether or not the van contained any explosive residue.

What police did find in the van were maps with certain areas of New York highlighted, $4700 in cash, their Israeli passports, and box cutters, though they oddly did not find any recording equipment.

The Israelis worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, owned by one Dominik Suter, who fled to Israel after initial questioning.

The case was immediately taken over by the FBI and the five men were detained for 71 days and extensively interrogated, including being given polygraph tests, which at least one of the men reportedly failed multiple times.

Urban Moving Systems was suspected of being one (of many) Jewish moving company scams that operated in the New Jersey/New York area, with these companies reportedly having a reputation for holding customer's belongings hostage in order to get more money from them or simply stealing their belongings outright and disappearing.

The FBI raided Urban Moving System's offices and confiscated 16 computer systems that they noted were far more sophisticated than what would be expected from a moving company. More concerning however, is the fact that the FBI concluded that at least two of the men were indeed Israeli intelligence.

The men claimed to have stopped to witness the event after it was already unfolding, which is what the FBI concluded in their report, yet witness testimony places their van at the scene by 8am - the first plane didn't strike the North Tower until 8:46, a pretty massive problem with their story.

After 71 days, the FBI deported the men to Israel and claimed that although they were Israeli intelligence, the FBI had no evidence that they had foreknowledge of the events and instead believed they were part of an Israeli intelligence operation that was merely tracking extremist Islamic groups in America.

In November, three of the five men appeared on a TV talk show in Israel, where Oded Ellner, one of the notorious "dancing Israelis", stated openly that "Our purpose was to document the event".

Read that again: Our purpose was to document the event.

How can one possibly be at a specific location for the express purpose of documenting a particular event, without having any knowledge that the event was going to take place?

A December 2001 Fox News four-part investigative report by correspondent Carl Cameron would seemingly confirm the details of the prior June DEA memo regarding Israeli "art students" suspected of being spies, while simultaneously unveiling extensive investigations into Israeli nationals in the US prior to and post-9/11.

This report claimed at least 60 Israeli nationals had been detained in the two months after 9/11, many of whom had military backgrounds and failed polygraphs before being deported. The program also highlighted the fact that Israeli telecom companies like Amdocs and Comverse handled US phone records and wiretap equipment which may have created security problems for investigators.

Other mainstream media outlets did not pick up the story and while Fox News claimed there was no external pressure to pull the report, transcripts and the video footage was pulled from their website within days without ever being moved to a paid archive as was usual for their programming, with surviving copies instead coming via third-party internet archival sites.

As for the collapse of the twin towers themselves, both fell in an almost identical fashion, which on its surface shouldn't be surprising as both were hit by planes in the same manner.

What is odd however, is just how they both collapsed.

Steel-core buildings are incredibly blast resistant - even with controlled explosions, they are difficult to take down, as steel has immense tensile strength and is very flexible. Buildings like skyscrapers are also designed to redistribute weight to surviving columns in the case of failures. It's why the 1993 bombing on the North Tower failed - the structure absorbed the immense blast and remained entirely intact.

They're also effectively fireproof, or at least the structure is - even if the entire contents of the building are incinerated, which are of course typically flammable, the steel structure remains.

Steel skyscrapers have only ever collapsed in the manner seen on 9/11 - where they fall from the top-down and effectively drop into their own footprint (like the footage captured here) - via controlled demolitions.

This is especially the case with skyscrapers because as one makes their way down the floors of such a tall building, the building's core is increasingly strong and over-engineered to support massive amounts of stress - a collapse high-up on a tower should not be able to buckle the entire lower structure at near-freefall speeds, which indicates the lower foundations all failed virtually instantly and didn't noticeably reduce the speed of collapse as would be expected.

Thanks to the extensive video footage of the towers collapsing and increasing questions regarding just how this was possible, the 9/11 Commission (which was, according to its own members and is a matter of public record, underfunded, had access virtually completely blocked by various government agencies, and was effectively the Warren Commission 2.0 made purely to put to bed any "conspiracy theories" that people may believe) was forced to try and explain how two steel-core high-rises could collapse into their own foundations in the manner in which they did.

Especially when numerous first responders at the scene described hearing and seeing explosions throughout the building prior to and during the collapse, which are seemingly corroborated by various clips of the collapses, with these claims curiously being omitted from later reporting of the event.

In response to speculation, FEMA had issued a report in 2002 suggesting the "pancake" theory, that the fire and damage caused the floors to essentially "break loose" from the central core, with one floor dropping into another, essentially stacking together with their combined weight and gravity causing the next floor they fell on to break loose and so forth.

The obvious problem with such a theory, as explained in this clip even back in 2002, is that the central core would stay standing after the floors effectively fell off and crumbled, yet there were clearly no steel beams left sticking a thousand feet into the air after the Twin Towers collapsed.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency under the US Department of Commerce, was tasked with explaining what happened and issued their own findings in September 2005, which was basically an extension of the pancake theory but taking the central support columns into account.

According to NIST, the initial impacts severed multiple exterior perimeter columns and core load-bearing columns. The force of the impacts stripped the spray-applied fireproofing insulation off the steel structures. Intense, multi-floor fires fueled by office materials and the massive amounts of jet fuel from the aircraft reached temperatures up to 1,000°C (1,800°F), severely weakening the exposed steel columns and floor trusses.

These jet-fuel fires reportedly spread through much of the building thanks to fuel leaking down elevator shafts, compromising more of the building than just the floors directly hit by the plane. The impacted floors sagged inward and pulled the perimeter columns along with them, causing them to buckle, which according to NIST, initiated a downward collapse of the upper blocks of each tower.

Once these "blocks" buckled their underlying supports, they effectively became a giant missile comprised of multiple floors of the building that once it started its fall, near-instantly compressed the floors below as gravity pulled the massive projectile to the ground, gaining mass with each floor it swallowed and pulverizing the lower floors into dust at an astonishing speed.

Now, you may have heard the slogan "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" floating around the internet, used by people who (rightly) point out that despite the impressive heat, a jet fuel-produced fire can't come close to the temperature required to actually melt steel.

This is especially relevant because there have been hundreds of steel buildings and structures that have been ravaged by fire, and throughout history they always left the steel structure standing - not once has a fire caused this kind of building to collapse.

The increased heat of the jet fuel compared to a regular office fire is cited as the differentiating factor here, and the whole "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" isn't really correct, because it doesn't need to actually melt the steel (which would require 2500-2800°F+ temperatures, far more than what jet fuel can produce), it just needs to weaken it enough so that it can no longer sustain the weight it's holding.

NIST's conclusion regardless requires many, many safeguards of the extremely over-engineered towers to fail simultaneously in order for such a collapse to happen.

While it attempts to offer an explanation of how the central supports also failed which the pancake theory entirely misses, even with the substantial weight of the upper floors coming crashing down, unless the central supports were pretty much significantly compromised all the 1000+ feet down (and in a matter of under an hour and just over 100 minutes depending on the building), the central structure would have still offered incredible resistance during such a collapse - certainly enough that the entire building wouldn't collapse in on itself at near-freefall speeds.

These towers were some of the most impressive and structurally sound buildings built by man - there's a reason why a massive bomb in the basement of one of the towers in 1993 barely made a dent in the building's structure.

Given the unprecedented (at the time) height of the towers in busy New York, the builders believed a plane getting lost in the New York fog could potentially fly into one of the towers by accident, and so these builders famously engineered these skyscrapers to be able to withstand an impact from a Boeing 707, which was the largest passenger jet at the time.

And indeed, both towers withstood the impacts of even much larger Boeing 767s decades later, only collapsing later in a suspect manner.

NIST's explanation, while many engineers, architects, demolition experts, and others have disagreed with it over the years, is at least theoretically possible, even if it happening identically to both towers seems extremely far-fetched.

But let's pretend their theory is entirely correct and that's how the Twin Towers fell.

Where NIST's explanation goes beyond plausibility is the collapse of Tower 7.

Tower 7, if you didn't know, was a 47-story (a baby compared to the Twin Towers) skyscraper in the World Trade Center complex that fell at roughly 5:20pm on September 11, bringing the number of buildings which collapsed to three despite only two being struck by planes.

This building, rather than being hit by an aircraft, was hit by some of the debris from the North Tower, leading to regular ol' office fires.

The tower did have fire suppression systems, however the collapse of the Twin Towers that morning took out the water mains in the WTC complex, meaning all of the sprinkler systems shut off, allowing the fire to then spread uncontrolled.

Now, what should have happened, as we've seen in hundreds of other buildings like it, is for the fire to run its course and effectively devour the material of the building, leaving just the steel structure of the building behind, as you can see in plenty of examples like this fire in Shanghai or this entire block of towers in Hong Kong.

Instead, World Trade Center Building 7, in nearly identical fashion to the Twin Towers, fell in on itself, the only difference being that this time it appeared to have begun its collapse much further toward the ground, but otherwise like its far taller siblings it fell at near-freefall speed despite not being hit by a Boeing 767 nor having any possibility of jet-fuelled fires.

NIST claims that the uncontrolled fires caused a failure on one column which triggered a cascading failure of adjacent columns due to the heat.

This alone is entirely implausible given how this building and virtually all skyscrapers are designed and what the structure is made out of; when one column fails, the odds of an adjacent column immediately falling are astronomically low, but a whole section following?

Lottery jackpots have better odds.

To have the entire grid of massive steel support columns, from the middle to all four corners, all fail near instantaneously as described?

Literally impossible.

NIST's explanation is basically what you'd see in a Looney Tunes episode, where a single nail being removed can cause an entire building to collapse.

This makes Tower 7, out of hundreds of structures like it that have caught fire, literally the only steel skyscraper to have ever collapsed purely from fire damage, and it just happened to be right after the peculiar manner in which the Twin Towers collapsed.

One former FDNY Captain claims that, while making his way over to Tower 7 that day, he saw a construction worker making his way out of the dust cloud surrounding the entrance of the building. The man walked past him and his Chief, who were talking about the Tower, and said in passing "that will be coming down around five o'clock". Tower 7 would fall at around 5:20pm, something that couldn't have possibly been predicted for an office fire of such a building.

He also claims that two men with rifles prevented him and his Fire Chief from accessing Tower 7, telling them it had been secured.

Other first responders reported hearing or seeing explosions prior to the towers coming down (not the initial ones from the plane impacts) and also report being told that Tower 7 specifically was going to come down - something that is incredibly odd given that this tower was never hit by a plane (nor did anyone on the ground believe it was) and according to all accounts was merely on fire, which again has never resulted in the collapse of a steel-structured building before.

This is only made even more questionable after a monumental freudian slip by one Larry Silverstein, who in a 2002 documentary, famously claims they made the decision to "pull it" in regards to Tower 7.

Larry claims his comment to "pull it" was in regards to pull the rescue efforts of first responders who were still in Tower 7 and trying to get any remaining survivors out, stating it was too risky at that point given the collapse of the other buildings, yet Larry's use of a demolition term when talking about the highly suspect collapse of his building doesn't exactly look good.

The full quote: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've made that decision to pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

It's also been noted by many engineers that the elevator shafts would have been the ideal spot for explosives to have been hidden and used to ensure the buildings came down, which loops back to the suspect ACE Elevator contract.

ACE's modernization project gave plenty of cover for any bad actors to have prepped the buildings to ensure the buildings came down, unlike in the 1993 bombing which failed to produce the desired effect.

That certainly isn't proof that ACE Elevator was involved or behind the demolition of Tower 7, but all of these astronomically improbable coincidences make the official narrative of 9/11 about as impossible to believe as the "magic bullet" theory that remains the official government explanation for JFK's death over 60 years ago.

On the day of September 11, Netanyahu was asked by a reporter what the attacks meant for US-Israeli relations. His response?

"It's very good."

This jovial sentiment was reflected by many Israelis interviewed post-9/11, as they stated it would awaken Americans and the western world to what they have to deal with and would inspire them to join the fight (ironically ignoring their own nation's terrorist attacks over the years).

This clip shows the contrast between people in Iran, now public enemy number one some 25 years later, which saw massive crowds take to the streets to chant "death to terrorism" and light candles for the fallen, to an interview with an Israeli woman who can't stop smiling when talking about the gruesome death of nearly 3,000 people.

Despite their general positivity toward an event that killed thousands of American people, Israel was and is still considered one of America's closest allies - meanwhile on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, big bad Russia, the only country that tried to warn the US about the impending attacks before they happened, sent America a 100-foot monument dedicated "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" which is displayed in New Jersey facing the Manhattan skyline.

Netanyahu's close friend Larry Silverstein, who as afforementioned had taken out a hefty insurance package that included terrorism coverage on the buildings, sued his insurance company in order to double the $3.55 billion payout, arguing that since the property was struck by two separate airplanes, two separate attacks had occurred and thus two insurance payouts were required.

"Lucky" Larry won his case, though eventually the insurance company managed to settle for a massive $4.55 billion payout rather than the $7.1 billion Silverstein sought.

It was a pretty hefty profit for Silverstein, who had paid $3.22 billion for a 99-year-lease of the entire complex and still had the land and remaining buildings in his portfolio.

Shortly after 9/11, Sibel Edmonds was hired by the FBI to translate highly classified wiretaps related to counter-terrorism.

She was fired after just 7 months when she tried to blow the whistle on corruption surrounding the 9/11 investigation and further terrorism investigations, claiming that critical intelligence on Al Qaeda was deliberately mistranslated or blocked entirely in order to protect illicit relationships between US officials, foreign intelligence agencies, and criminal networks.

She sued for wrongful termination, claiming she brought it up to her superiors and was dismissed, leading to her filing complaints to the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility and the DOJ's Inspector General. Those complaints led to her being fired as a result; the court dismissed her claim because the FBI would need to disclose highly privileged information.

In 2004, Edmonds reportedly gave details to a panel investigating 9/11 which included claims that the FBI knew that a planned attack was mere months away and the terrorists were already in place within the US.

She stated, "there was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used, but not specifically about how they would be used...and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."

The US Attorney General then issued a rarely used state-secrets privilege order on her, which prevented Edmonds from being able to reveal any more information from her time with the FBI and quashed a planned public deposition of Edmonds, claiming it would endanger national security.

Inspector General Glenn A. Fine released a summary of an audit report from 2004, stating "that many of her allegations were supported, that the FBI did not take them seriously enough, and that her allegations were, in fact, the most significant factor in the FBI's decision to terminate her services. Rather than investigate Edmonds's allegations vigorously and thoroughly, the FBI concluded that she was a disruption and terminated her contract." - the Inspector General's report validated Edmonds claims, but unfortunately it did nothing to lift the gag order.

In February of 2011, Sibel Edmonds published a story on her website which corroborated and expanded on her own claims - according to another translator's descriptions of meetings with an Iranian informant in April 2001, the FBI knew:

'Bin Laden's group is planning a massive terrorist attack in the United States. The order has been issued. They are targeting major cities, big metropolitan cities; they think four or five cities; New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco; possibly Los Angeles or Las Vegas. They will use airplanes to carry out the attacks. They said that some of the individuals involved in carrying this out are already in the United States. They are here in the U.S., living among us, and I believe some in US government already know about all of this.'

According to Edmonds, two agents with whom this other translator had worked with reported this information to a "Special Agent in Charge (SAC)" months before the attack. After the attack, one of these agents had allegedly told the translator that the SAC "called us into his office and gave us an order; an absolute order [that] we never got any warnings. Those conversations never existed; it never happened; period. He said this is very sensitive...and that no one should ever mention a word about this case, period."

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, a memo that was later revealed by retired four star General Wesley Clark proposed that America should pursue regime change in seven countries over the next five years - Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.

Those seven countries, if you recall, were the exact same countries that Israel's 1996 Clean Break report singled out five years prior.

As bad as all of this looks, we won't even touch on the more publicly acknowledged aspects of 9/11 such as the CIA's withholding of vital intelligence regarding major terrorist threats before the attack from other agencies (which have been explained away by the government as simply poor inter-agency communication), or the many ties to Saudi Arabian intelligence that the hijackers had (including documents released just a few years ago that show two of the hijackers met with a Saudi intelligence agent and a Saudi Arabian Consulate General in Los Angeles early in 2000 and provided them support in setting up bank accounts and acquiring an apartment, as well as a list of over three-dozen high-ranking Saudi Arabian officials or members of their royal family with extensive ties to the hijackers).

Saudi Arabia, next to Israel of course, is America's closest ally in the middle east, so it's no surprise that the US government would go out of their way to protect their potential ties to terrorism, even if they were involved in the murder of nearly 3,000 American citizens on American soil.

It should be noted as well that, despite Al Qaeda still being around today and having massive amounts of funding, not to mention the litany of other terrorist organizations out there, no terror attack even remotely close to the complexity of 9/11 has ever even been attempted since.

But wait, there's more!

On September 18, just a week after 9/11, letters containing anthrax were mailed from Trenton, New Jersey to various media outlets and companies, with the letters containing things like "Death to America" to evoke middle eastern terrorism ties.

In early October, a photo editor at American Media Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida was hospitalized and then died due to anthrax inhalation; on October 8, the AMI building was shut down after anthrax was found in the building.

Earlier I briefly mentioned the PATRIOT Act, which was proposed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to grant intelligence agencies sweeping powers which heavily infringed on American citizen's constitutional rights.

By October 2001, several lawmakers were pushing back against the massive bill as it was being rushed through the approval process, asking for more time to review the implications of the bill's contents.

The two most prominent Senators pushing back against the PATRIOT Act were Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy.

On October 9, two additional letters were mailed from Trenton, New Jersey - one to Senator Tom Daschle, and one to Senator Patrick Leahy.

On October 12, an NBC News employee opened a letter containing anthrax spores.

On the 15th, an employee of Tom Daschle's opened a letter containing "weapons grade" anthrax spores.

The media immediately ran with the assumption that Al Qaeda was behind the attacks, even linking them to Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

As more and more media members, combined with the two Senators' offices, reported anthrax attacks, the nation was in an absolute state of panic and all resistance to the sweeping PATRIOT Act collapsed. The act passed with overwhelming support, with Congress passing it on October 24 followed by the Senate on the 25th, finally being signed into law by George W. Bush on October 26.

October 9 is believed to be the last time anthrax letters were sent, though cases popped up through November as the letters made their way through the postal service. Five people died, with 17 more falling ill from anthrax exposure.

No motive was ever established, nor any reason why the sending of these letters stopped so quickly after it began.

It wasn't until 2008 that the FBI finally revealed the letters did not in fact originate from Al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein - instead, they claimed it came from a US biodefense labratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland, with Dr. Bruce Ivins being named as the perpetrator.

Of course, Dr. Ivins committed suicide before ever being persecuted or explaining why he'd have done such a thing.

It just so happened that the anthrax attacks, which came weeks after 9/11 and scared Congress and the Senate into passing a bill which provided incredibly broad and sweeping powers to intel agencies and the military, powers that violated the constitutational rights of American citizens, came from an American bioweapons lab and the perpetrator killed himself without ever leaving a clue as to why.

But wait, there's more! Again!

Mexican Chamber of Deputies Bombing Attempt

The US wasn't the only country in October 2001 where suspected false flag attacks were going down to maximize the fear surrounding Islamic terrorism after the 9/11 attacks.

On October 10, 34-year-old Israeli special forces Colonel Salvador Gersson Smeck, alongside an IDF soldier Saur Ben Zvi (both were later alleged to be Mossad operatives for obvious reasons) infiltrated the Mexican Chamber of Deputies (effectively Mexico's House of Congress) in Mexico City.

Following a morning meeting in the building, the two individuals began photographing people in a suspicious manner, prompting Mexican workers in the Chamber to demand identification.

The two Israelis claimed to be press photographers, but the workers were unconvinced, with a scuffle ensuing which alerted congressional security as the two men tried to draw 9mm Glock pistols on the workers, who outnumbered them and managed to overwhelm the two men.

Security broke up the disturbance and detained the two individuals, only to find that in addition to firearms, both men carried explosives, multiple hand grenades, and fake Pakistani passports.

The suspects, who were later discovered to be Israeli, were handed to the Mexican Attorney General's Office; following intense diplomatic pressure from the Israeli embassy, both men were sent to Israel with no charges.

Despite uproar in Mexico, the failed terrorist attack by Israeli operatives was swept under the rug and forgotten about, with most of the world never even hearing about it.

October 7 / Jericho Wall / Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

First, as this is a very recent and controversial topic, I'd like to point out that this article in no way insinuates that Israel itself carried out the atrocities committed on October 7, 2023.

I'd also like to point out that while this article will point to plenty of proof that Israeli officials and Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu knew about the attacks ahead of time, that does not absolve Hamas or any of the Palestinians involved in the attacks of their despicable actions both on that day and following it.

Now, let's delve into the facts.

In September of 2016, Israel's Ministry of Defense prepared a top-secret memo, signed by then-Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, warning of the possibility of an invasion and massive hostage-taking operation by Hamas.

The memo outlined Hamas's purchases of drones, GPS jammers, and other sophisticated weaponry that was outside of their normal modus operandi. It also reported estimates that Hamas had swelled its fighting force by some 6,000 men in just two years, and aimed to grow it from 27,000 to 40,000 by the year 2020.

Israeli intelligence from 2018 onward extensively reported evidence that indicated Hamas was preparing for a multi-point breach of the Israeli border and deep raids into southern Israel.

Fast forward to April 2022, roughly 18 months before the October 7 attack.

Israel's Unit 8200, which is the IDF's elite signals intelligence and cyber warfare agency (kind of like America's NSA), obtained a detailed 40-page plan created by Hamas.

The plans, which Israeli officials code-named "Jericho Wall", originated from around October 2021 and reportedly laid out in detail the exact kind of assault that would later take place on October 7, 2023 - an opening rocket barrage, drone attacks to disable cameras and automated guns along the border, followed by large numbers of fighters crossing into Israeli communities by paraglider, motorcycle, and on foot to hit both military bases and civilian populations.

Hamas's plan was circulated amongst the Israeli military and intelligence officials, with Israel's higher-ups concluding that an attack of that scale was beyond Hamas's capabilities and the plans were more "aspirational" than realistic.

Now, hubris is one thing, but given that so many analysts had access to these materials as well as internal documents showing Hamas had been purchasing drones, jammers and other such equipment many years prior, one would think that they'd at least assess whether their defenses would be able to handle such an attack and adjust accordingly, but we'll go with the official narrative that the dismissal of such plans was purely incompetence.

In July 2023, a veteran Unit 8200 analyst warned the agency that recent Hamas training drills, which included taking a kibbutz (effectively small communes in Israel) and overrunning a base, closely matched the blueprint laid out in Jericho Wall, with Hamas terrorists even recorded reciting the same quote from the Quran that appeared at the top of the Jericho Wall document.

This analyst's report claimed that Hamas was building the capacity to put the Jericho Wall plan into action; the Colonel who received the report apparently called the exercises "imaginative" and said to "wait patiently" to see what would come of it.

Other analysts reportedly endorsed this agent's warning, with one invoking comparisons to the Yom Kippur War - "We already underwent a similar experience 50 years ago on the southern front in connection with a scenario that seemed imaginary, and history may repeat itself if we are not careful".

For the uninitiated, the Yom Kippur War began on October 6, 1973 which coincided with the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, which was also the tenth day of Ramadan. An Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria which also included forces from many other Arab nations and allies like Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Iraq, Kuqait, Lebanon, and even Cuba, launched a surprise two-front assault on Israel which resulted in heavy military losses.

Caught off guard, Israel would quickly organize and launch counteroffensives which halted Arab progress and pushed them back, with a UN-brokered ceasefire signed just 19 days after the assault began to end the war.

In roughly September 2023, in the weeks leading up to October 7, Egyptian intelligence repeatedly warned Israel that "something big" was coming from Gaza.

At some point in late September, Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel reportedly told Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu himself that Hamas was preparing "something unusual, a terrifying operation" from Gaza.

Shin Bet (Israel's version of the FBI) was passed a message from Egyptian intelligence that was relayed to Netanyahu, that Hamas intended to "make the ground in Gaza tremble".

In a new report via Canada's CBC, the United Arab Emirates also reached out to warn Israel of an impending assault.

According to three senior officials, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed reached out personally to Bibi Netanyahu 10 days before the October 7 attack and during a 45-minute call warned that (then) Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major assault from Gaza.

Netanyahu of course calls these reports "outright lies" - the UAE refused to confirm or deny the claims, citing they did not wish to get involved in Israeli's national politics.

The entire Israeli-Gazan border stretches just 60-65 kilometres (37-40 miles) - remember, the entire state of Israel, including occupied Palestine, is roughly about the size of New Jersey. Flying an average civilian helicopter from the northern-most tip of Israel to its southern tip would take just over two hours, while you can drive across Israel at its widest point in about 90 minutes by car.

With many terrorist attacks occurring during religious holidays, combined with the warnings stemming out of Gaza, one would think that they'd have at least told troops to be vigilant over the long holiday weekend and to watch out for strange activity, if not beef up security just in case, but in Israel, it was the opposite.

All of the warnings told Israel that a threat from Gaza was imminent, yet for some reason, on October 5, the IDF repositioned two companies of troops stationed near the Gaza border and moved them to the West Bank instead.

Israel's borders with Gaza and the West Bank are arguably the most heavily defended and surveilled borders on the planet, yet the Gaza border was left with a skeleton crew on October 7. According to the IDF, some 767 soldiers were stationed along this border that morning, which according to them is about half the amount normally stationed there.

In addition, throughout the night of October 6, multiple IDF soldiers stationed along that border reported unusual activity in Gaza, but their concerns were dismissed as likely being Palestinians executing drills rather than an imminent raid.

About 5 kilometres (3 miles) from the border fence,the Nova Music Festival had thousands of ravers dancing through the night and into the morning in the Negev Desert at a spot near the Re'im kibbutz.

And here's where more oddness comes into play.

A month prior to October 7, the Negev District Police Commander ordered that no events or parties should be permitted near the Gaza border for the foreseeable future in light of security concerns.

Yet on September 20, Israel approved the Unity Festival, a concert, to set up for an event on October 5 which would end on the morning of October 6 in the Negev Desert, near the Re'im kibbutz.

The Nova Festival, which was originally set for another location that fell through, then asked on October 2nd to use the Unity Festival's site for their own event for the night of October 6 and extending through the morning of October 7.

Gaza Division commander Brig. Gen. Avi Rosenfeld and Col. Cohen initially objected, stating an extra event with thousands of people on a holiday weekend would overload already reduced forces; Gaza Division operations officer Lt. Col. Sahar Fogel reportedly called the event a "needless risk".

After talks with Southern Command, Nova Festival's late request was accepted and the event began at 10pm on October 6 as requested, yet no dedicated IDF unit was assigned to the party and no military liaison was assigned the on-site police post, an oddity for an event held so close to the border.

Soldiers deployed along the fence that night were not informed that 3,000-4,000 people were gathered just a few kilometers away. No loudspeaker rocket-warning setup was added for the event, another odd omission for an event taking place near the Israeli border.

That same night, according to Haaretz, top Israeli defense officials held urgent consultations about a possible imminent Hamas attack, yet troops were not mobilized or made aware whatsoever.

At around 5:20am on the morning of October 7, Shalom Sheetrit, an IDF soldier in the Golani Brigade who was stationed at an outpost along the Gazan border, was reportedly given a "strange message" from his commander.

Sheetrit later testified under oath to Israeli's Knesset that while he and two other soldiers were on the battalion radio, their commander issued an order that there were to be no patrols at the fence until nine in the morning. Sheetrit claimed the message was very strange given early-morning fence patrols were routine for that battalion.

In a similar claim, three other soldiers from the same brigade reported to the BBC in 2024 that they were supposed to go on their regular morning patrol along the Israeli side of the Gaza border fence but were told to hold off due to "a threat of anti-tank missiles".

At approximately 6:30am local time, Hamas and allied Palestinian groups launched a surprise incursion into southern Israel from Gaza.

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood began with a massive rocket barrage fired at various targets inside Israel, with thousands of rockets sent to provide cover for the ground invasion.

Thousands of Muslim militants (estimates range from 3,000 to over 6,000) then proceeded to breach dozens of points along the Israeli-Gazan border using explosives and bulldozers, with troops on foot or on motorcycles pouring through the gaps while others merely flew over in motorized paragliders.

The invading force overran the sparsely guarded military outposts and then turned their sights on civilian communites, massacring men, women, elderly and children alike.

The Nova Music Festival, where several thousand concert-goers including many tourists were concentrated, saw hundreds of terrified teenagers shot and killed while fleeing for their lives, and reports of various women and young girls being raped before being murdered (or their corpses being mutilated).

Precise numbers of casualties from the attacks are hard to come by thanks to difficulties identifying some bodies as well as the exclusion/inclusion of hostages who were later killed sometimes being included versus not, but roughly 1200 people were killed in Israel; at least 810 civilians (79 foreign nationals and at least 282 women and 36 children) were killed and 379 security forces (between IDF, police, and other security personnel), with thousands more being injured.

251 hostages were also taken to Gaza; 83 of them would either be killed or later die in captivity, with roughly half reportedly having been dead before entering Gaza. 168 of those hostages would eventually return home, with the last survivors/bodies being recovered in January 2026, with the hostages having suffered torture and in many cases rape at the hands of their captors.

Out of the Hamas/Palestinian invading forces, somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 were killed while in Israel; while the attacks started at 6:30am inside one of the most militarized countries on the planet (and again, it's only slightly bigger than the state of New Jersey), many areas suffered for upwards of six, ten, and even twelve hours before IDF troops arrived to secure the area.

In the aftermath, various Israeli government opposition members called into question Netanyahu's response to the attacks and his seemingly glacial movements that day. The Times of Israel reports that, according to Netanyahu's own journal and IDF records, Netanyahu was first told of an attack at 6:29am local time.

It reportedly took Bibi over two hours to leave his home, arriving at the IDF Headquarters shortly after 9am. He didn't meet with the IDF's Chief until roughly 9:45am - Netanyahu himself then claims to have ordered IDF mobilization at 9:55am, nearly 3.5 hours after he was first notified of an attack.

According to the New York Times, thousands of IDF soldiers were on base and less than forty minutes from the towns that were under attack.

In the Be'eri kibbutz, video footage confirmed over 500 soldiers, along with tanks, sat just outside the community as it was being attacked. They didn't enter the kibbutz to save their own citizens until 4:30pm, roughly ten hours after the kibbutz was initially invaded. According to one Israeli in the kibbutz, she was even yelling at the soldiers outside of the town that "We're being slaughtered, come in, save us!" yet the soldiers didn't say or do anything.

At roughly 7am, the Nova Festival's organizers called Lt. Col. Elad Zandani, the man who had given the organizers approval for the event, informing him that terrorists were shooting up the concert and pleading for help - Zandani suggested that they "fend for themselves". The IDF's reinforcements didn't enter the festival grounds until 11:50am, nearly five hours after that call, when they killed the only two attackers that had remained.

Despite these massive delays in defending their own citizens, with a deluge of troops at the IDF's main Gaza base just a few miles away, by 10:46am Israel was already firing rockets at targets in Gaza.

Here you can see the late Charlie Kirk outlining the questionable response and legitimate questions regarding a stand-down order on that day. Kirk was viciously smeared as antisemitic for the implications, even told he was "no better than a holocaust denier" for believing that the Israeli government might have let the attack happen on purpose.

Addng to the questionable IDF response is the Hannibal Directive.

Introduced in 1986 by the Israeli military, the Hannibal Directive dictates that maximum force is used to prevent the capture of soldiers (or civilians) by enemy combatants, even if it risks harming or killing the captives.

The doctrine effectively removes standard constraints used for dealing with kidnappings under the premise that a dead soldier (or civilian) is better than a captive one that can be used in high-cost prisoner exchanges.

The directive was understandably classified and censored by the Israeli government from reaching Israeli publications, but in more recent times the policy became an open secret and inspired much debate, particularly after various groups accused the IDF of using this protocol and causing mass casualties as a result in Rafah in 2014.

In 2016, the IDF Chief of Staff formally revoked the Hannibal Directive, yet there is clear evidence that this policy remained in full effect during the October 7 attack.

In this leaked video, you can see Israeli leadership openly discussing bombing Gaza "including the soldiers who got abducted" - when Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir notices the camera filming, he tells the camera operator to "take this out" and only film when he gives permission.

Then came leaked videos of IDF soldiers firing into crowds from Apache helicopters, with Israel acknowledging that it was difficult to determine amidst the chaos who was friend and who was foe; Israel admitted that there were some instances of friendly fire on October 7, which is understandable given the nature of the attacks, yet indiscriminately firing into crowds with machineguns is not the kind of friendly fire that can be excused.

Even Yoav Gallant, the Minister of Defense from 2022-2024, admitted in an interview that the Hannibal Directive was used on October 7.

Exactly how many of the roughly 800 civilians and nearly 400 security forces in Israel were killed by their own IDF troops that day will likely never be known.

And then there's the hostages.

Reporting from Israeli publication Haaretz claims Qatar, serving as an intermediary for Hamas, reached out to Israel with an offer from Hamas to return all of the hostages on the day of October 7.

Rather than their typical ask of prisoner releases, Hamas reportedly asked only for a mediator to arrange the exchange and facilitate later negotiations to return captive Hamas soldiers. All Israeli channels open to Qatar refused to respond.

Qatar officials then reached out to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to inform him that Hamas was willing to release the hostages without a prisoner swap - Blinken responded that "Israel is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to. We will wait three days".

The three days was the period of time it was going to take for Blinken to travel to Israel and meet with Netanyahu personally, despite Qatar urging him to act immediately to secure the hostages.

Some of those hostages, the ones who didn't die in captivity, wouldn't be returned to Israel for over two years.

Surely, if they knew there was a chance they could have been returned the same day they were taken and that the Israeli government (nor the US government which was apprised of the situation) didn't even attempt to make it happen, they might not think too highly of their own government.

In the aftermath of October 7, mainstream media around the world of course reported heavily on the atrocities committed - many of Hamas's acts were recorded by their own fighters and posted on their own social media accounts, which were then leaked to the broader public.

The IDF itself has a similar problem of keeping such crimes under wraps as their own soldiers regularly record themselves with dead bodies or in the act of blowing things up to share with their friends and family.

The acts committed were horrific already, yet for some reason, Israeli politicians, government officials, and media outlets decided it wasn't enough - they had to make it even more brutal, even more cruel to really hammer the point home.

Stories like finding "babies in ovens" and "beheaded babies" spread like wildfire, only for the state of Israel itself to later confirm that this in fact did not happen when people started demanding proof of such incredulous claims.

It harkens back to certain claims made by Holocaust survivors even decades after the event that clearly exaggerrated or made up stories to garner extra sympathy, such as the notorious case of Herman Rosenblat who gained worldwide attention for writing a memoir that told of him meeting a little girl who passed him food through a barbed-wire fence at Buchenwald who he would later marry, a story Oprah Winfrey called the "greatest love story she had heard in 22 years of hosting her show" - only for most of the story to be proven a hoax, with Rosenblat forced to admit he made it up in order to "bring joy" to people.

There have been many cases like this over the years, often describing horrific scenes which didn't happen - this kind of deception has even been granted the name of "atrocity porn" as many believe the perpetrators enjoy coming up with sadistic details while media outlets love using these stories to fuel their own narratives.

This phenomenon is of course not exclusive to Israel or the Jewish community.

The "beheaded babies" claim in particular may trigger some readers to recall the Kuwait incubator hoax from 1990 that was used to garner public support for the 1991 Gulf War.

In October 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl known only as "Nayirah" gave emotional testimony before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus, in which she claimed Iraqi soldiers had entered a hospital in Kuwait City, removed hundreds of babies from incubators, then left them on the floor to die.

Nayirah presented herself as a volunteer nurse at the hospital, helping sell the story to the masses. The media and many politicians, including President George H. W. Bush, used her compelling testimony as evidence of Iraqi brutality during the occupation of Kuwait and thus justification for entering the Gulf War.

The problem was, as reports in late 1991 and early 1992 would unearth, the story was a complete fabrication.

Nayirah was never a volunteer nurse nor had she worked at the hospital; she was actually the daughter of Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, Saud Nasir Al-Sabah.

Her dramatic account of systematic baby executions? Entirely fabricated, with her testimony rehearsed and coached by American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton on behalf of "Citizens for a Free Kuwait".

October 7 served as the start of a "new" war between Israel and Gaza according to Israel, with many across the world agreeing that Palestinians deserved what it got for "starting" a new war and committing such an atrocity.

However, these claims are ignorant of even very recent history.

For the year of 2022, roughly 209 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and Gaza, with 53 being children. 21 Israelis and 3 foreign nationals were killed that year by Palestinians, with 1 child among the victims.

From January 1 to October 6, 2023, about 200 Palestinians were killed, with an estimated 38 being children. Estimates of Israelis killed by Palestinians prior to October 6 in 2023 were 30 with 3 of those being children. 26 of those victims were killed in occupied Palestine while just 4 were in Israel.

To put that into perspective, 36 children were killed by Hamas on October 7; in the roughly 10 months of 2023 up to October 7, about the same amount of children were killed by the IDF and/or Israeli settlers (settlers account for only a few of the total deaths each of those years, with the bulk being IDF fatalities) as the amount killed on October 7. 38 Palestinian children were killed, compared to 39 Israeli children if you add the 3 victims prior to October 7 to that day's massacre.

The year before saw far more Palestinian children killed (53) while there was apparently "no war" going on.

One side are labelled sub-human terrorists, the other gets virtual immunity for slaughtering civilians and children.

Calling the IDF or Israelis terrorists is denounced as "antisemitic" and an attack on Jews or "pro-terrorist", despite the fact that they are objectively doing the same thing as the side we all agree to call terrorists.

Here, former CIA Director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talks openly to a Jewish institute in America about forming the narrative around October 7, explaining that they need to make sure that Israel is seen as the sole victim in history books and that the victims in Gaza (which he acknowledged exist) are not sympathized with.

Now, as to why Bibi Netanyahu and the Israeli government (or at least portions of it) would let such an atrocity happen and/or maximize the casualties and brutality of it? Well that's pretty simple.

Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu had been embroiled in a corruption scandal ever since he was indicted on three separate corruption cases back in 2019.

As these cases slowly neared a trial, the scandal caught fire when Netanyahu and his Likud party claimed that the judicial branch of the Israeli government held too much power and implemented a series of major legislative changes to limit those powers.

Netanyahu and his party claimed these reforms were "unrelated to the corruption trial", because of course they were, but that didn't stop hundreds of thousands of Israelis from attending regular protests, first in 2020 and 2021, with a second wave starting in January 2023 that continued right up until October 7.

Once Hamas invaded, not only did those protests stop, but Netanyahu, who was faced with losing an election and the protections he was afforded as PM, now had an emergency government (which he retains to this day) with a mandate from virtually the entire country to take out all of Gaza, something that Bibi has been calling for throughout the last several decades.

Since October 7, Bibi has effectively gotten his wish - roughly 75,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of them being civilians (at least 20,000 of them being children) and over 80% of Gaza has been reduced to rubble.

As calls for a formal investigation into the Netanyahu administrations' handling of the October 7 incident grew amongst opposition groups, Netanyahu stood vehemently opposed into letting a state investigation (those are handled by the judicial branch, which remember he had been battling for years).

Instead, he cut a deal with the opposition party in order to create a political commission to handle the investigation rather than a state one, a commission he could fill without any opposition members.

Effectively, the party that entirely controlled the response on October 7 is the party in charge of investigating itself.

The October 7 terrorist attack on Israel was in essence Israel's version of the 9/11 attacks - a brutal slaughter of their own citizens that was allowed (and let's say possibly enhanced by their respective governments) in order to fulfill political goals, with 9/11 serving as the excuse to pass the unconstitutional PATRIOT Act and provide justification for various wars in the middle east over the ensuing decades, while October 7 served as an excuse to bulldoze Gaza and continue Israeli expansionism while saving Netanyahu from his own political demise.

Israel's actions (and inactions) regarding the October 7 attacks as well as their involvement in various other false flags, point to a willingness to sacrifice their own allies (and even their own citizens) to advance their political agenda, and are just one more reason why Israel should be recognized for what it is - a terrorist state.

On this 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, take a moment not only to honour the victims of those heinous acts, but to spread awareness of the evils of their own government that allowed such an attack to occur and used their deaths to kill millions of people halfway around the world while stripping their fellow countrymen of their constitutional rights.

On this September 11, we remember.