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THERE is an on-going Internet debate and
controversy about the number of Jewish casualties in the World
Trade Center tragedy. How many Israelis did survive the
bombing? We have kept out of this, but the discussion below
deserves posting as it summarises different and often
untenable positions. |
Sunday, November 25, 2001
Evidence of Mossad Treachery in the
WTC
Ed Toner:
Let's look at the hard evidence indicating the Mossad had
foreknowledge of the September 11 attack. The day after the attack
on the World Trade Center, the Jerusalem Post, the most respected
and famous Israeli newspaper in the world, reported
that 4,000 Israelis were missing in the attack on the WTC.
The Jerusalem Post (08:15 - Wed) Thousands
of Israelis missing near WTC, Pentagon Wednesday September 12,
2001 The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the
names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the
attack.
The list is made up of people who have not yet made
contact with friends or family, Army Radio reported.
Telephone connections between Israel and the New York City
and Washington, D.C. areas has been sporadic and unreliable since
the multiple attacks yesterday.
Ten thousand people are estimated to have been killed in
the New York attacks and another 800 in Washington.
Several hundred also went down with the hijacked
planes.
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September
13, 2001:
Four Israelis were almost certainly in the twin towers of
the World Trade Center when they collapsed, the Israeli consul
in New York said this evening.
He added that in all likelihood, four more Israelis in
nearby buildings are also among the casualties, Army Radio
reported. |
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Thursday September 13, 2001
Search in NYC locates 1,000 missing Israelis
By Melissa Radler
NEW YORK (Sept. 13) -- The number of Israelis considered
missing in New York dropped to
three last night when Ya'acov Habbi and his
daughter Gali were located.
Ya'acov, who lives near the World Trade Center, and Gali
were trapped in a car next to the site for about 20
hours. | The Foreign Ministry
compiled the number from Israeli relatives who in the first few
hours after the attack, contacted the Israeli Foreign Ministry and
gave the names of Israeli friends and relatives who worked in the
WTC or who had business scheduled in it or its adjacent structures.
Even without seeing the article in the Jerusalem Post,
logic alone would tell you that there would be many hundreds, if not
thousands of Israelis in the World Trade Center at the time of the
attacks.
The international Jewish involvement in banking and finance is
legendary. Two of the richest firms in New York are Goldman-Sachs
and the Solomon Brothers; and both firms have offices in the Twin
Towers.
Many executives in these firms regularly commute back and forth
to Israel.
New York is the center of world wide Jewish financial power and
the World Trade Center is at its epicenter.
One would expect the Israeli death toll to be catastrophic. The
Jerusalem Post certainly thought so on September 12, 2001.
Here is the beginning of its article:
Thousands of Israelis missing near WTC,
Pentagon.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the
names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the
attack. [...]
When George Bush made his speech before Congress, it turns
out that he made a significant error other than saying that the WTC
attackers did it because they "hated freedom," Bush made a point of
saying that in addition to thousands of Americans, 130 Israelis died
in the WTC.
The implication was to say that Israel shared in our suffering,
and that we and Israel are in this thing together.
Upon hearing the number of 130 Israeli dead, it seemed
suspiciously low to me.
If 4,000 Israelis were at the WTC and the WTC death
toll was about 4,500 (about 10 percent of the 45,000 people
normally in the buildings at that time), the Israeli toll should
have probably been between 300 and 500.
130 deaths would have been unusually low. As a place for doing
business and for employment, the world Trade Center was not a huge
MacDonalds; it housed tens of thousands of highly paid, high tech
and high level jobs and executive positions.
They were primarily international finance, trade, banking and
brokerage firms.
These are the kinds of businesses where Israelis are
traditionally over-represented.
I asked myself how there could be only 130 Israelis dead, while
there were an estimated 199 dead from Columbia and 428 from the
Philippines? In previous articles I wrote on the September 11
terror, I did not allude to these suspicions because I have always
taken pride in not writing anything I could not firmly substantiate.
But, while researching this article on Israeli terrorism against
Palestine and America, I discovered the most surprising fact I have
ever run across in all my years of research and writing.
I discovered a simple fact that has enormous ramifications in
regard to the September terror attack.
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October 15, 2001
JERUSALEM DISPATCH.
Holy Terror
by Yossi Klein Halevi
Post date 10.05.01 |
The destruction of the World Trade Center has partially
rehabilitated, if only by default, the Zionist promise of safe
refuge for the Jewish people.
In the last year, it had become a much-noted irony that
Israel was the country where a Jew was most likely to be
killed for being a Jew.
For many, the United States had beckoned as the real Jewish
refuge; in a poll taken just before the bin Laden attacks, 37
percent of Israelis said their friends or relatives were
discussing emigration.
That probably changed on September 11.
I was among the thousands of Israelis who crowded Kennedy
Airport on the weekend after the attack, desperate to find a
flight to Tel Aviv.
"At least we're going back where it's safe," people joked.
Everyone seemed to have a story about an Israeli living in
New York who just barely escaped the devastation.
If this could happen in Manhattan, the reasoning went, you
might as well take your chances at home." |
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The New York Times |
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September 22, 2001
THE TALLY
Officials Say Number of Those
Still Missing May Be Overstated
[...] But interviews with many consulate officials
yesterday suggested that the lists of people they were
collecting varied widely in their usefulness.
For example, the city had somehow received reports of many
Israelis feared missing at the site, and President Bush
in his address to the country on Thursday night mentioned that
about 130 Israelis had died in the attacks.
But today, Alon Pinkas, Israel's consul general
here, said that lists of the missing included reports from
people who had called in because, for instance, relatives in
New York had not returned their phone calls from Israel.
There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been
confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been
visiting the towers on business and who was identified and
buried. | After searching through
dozens of articles trying to track down the true Israeli death toll,
I finally found a New York Times piece that clarified the
precise number of Israelis who died in the World Trade Center
attack.
Of the 130 Israelis President Bush
claimed had died in the World Trade Center, it turned out that 129
of them were still alive. Only one Israeli had actually died in
the catastrophe of the World Trade Center.
I was incredulous.
"Good God," I said outloud to myself, "only one Israeli!" Here is
the pertinent excerpt from the NY Times:
But interviews with many consulate officials
Friday suggested that the lists of people they were collecting
varied widely in their usefulness.
For example, the city had somehow received reports of many
Israelis feared missing at the site, and President Bush in his
address to the country on Thursday night mentioned that about 130
Israelis had died in the attacks.But Friday, Alon Pinkas, Israel's
consul general here, said that lists of the missing included
reports from people who had called in because, for instance,
relatives in New York had not returned their phone calls from
Israel.
There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been
confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been
visiting the towers on business and who was identified and
buried. (New York
Times, Sept. 22)
The very low death toll of 130 suggested that a number of
Israelis at the Trade Center had been warned before the attack.
When I found out the truth that only one Israeli had died, there
could be no doubt that there had been a prior warning for many
Israelis.
Having only one Israeli casualty among the 4,500 dead at the WTC
is simply a statistical impossibility.
Even if the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Jerusalem
Post had grossly overestimated the number of Israelis in the
World Trade Center by 3,000 (400 percent), there still should have
still been one thousand Israelis there at the time of the attacks.
Again, even if only a few hundred Israelis were present at the
time of the attack, only one Israeli death occurring there is
statistically absurd.
Either September 11 had to be a big Israeli holiday, or a number
of Israeli citizens had some advance warning of the impending
attack.
The fact is that no Israeli or Jewish holiday falls on September
11.
Prior Warning to
Israelis.
The next thing I researched was to see if there were any
confirmed warnings to Israelis prior to the attack.
I quickly found an article in Newsbytes, a news service of
the Washington Post, titled "Instant
Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack." The Israeli daily,
Ha'aretz, also confirmed the prior warnings to Israel and
confirmed that the FBI is investigating the warnings.
The articles detailed that an Israeli messaging firm, Odigo, with
offices in both the World Trade Center and in Israel, received a
number of warnings just two hours before the attack. [...]
Now, who would have warned Israelis of the impending attack, if
not Israel's Mossad?
November 23, 2001
From: Robert Reis
Odd but true
TODAY a person -- who was very angry with me for observing that
the Newsday site listing all victims at World Trade Center did not
include the anticipated percentage of names of people of the Jewish
heritage -- approached me and said I was an evil person full of ....
because he had gone to the CNN list and found 35 -- 40 % Jewish
names.
He asked sarcastically "Aren't Horowitz and
Rubenstein Jewish enough for you?"
I went to CNN and could not find such a list. I went to
ABCnews.com and searched their list. No Horowitz and no Rubenstein.
I went to Newsday list and found no Horowitz and no Rubenstein. I
went to elbnet.com and did a victim search. No Horowitz and no
Rubenstein.
Robert Reis
P.S.There were two "REIS" victims in WTC
From: Ed Toner
The Asbury Park Press printed the names of ALL the victims from Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Quite heavily Jewish populations. Many commuters to the WTC, daily.
There was ONE "identifiable" Jewish name.
Following the obituaries, I saw ONE more, a
name which was not particularly Jewish sounding. That's TWO in the whole area.
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