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The Israeli Prime Minister's

Connection to 9/11
by Christopher Bollyn
22 December 2006

Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, seems to be more popular and
influential with European and American politicians than he is among his own
constituents.

After the disastrous and illegal invasion of Lebanon, which he foolishly

provoked and prosecuted, an Israeli poll found that 63 per cent of Israelis
wanted Olmert to resign.

Israeli forces committed a host of egregious war crimes during the month-long
invasion, including targeting civilian areas and infrastructure and using banned
weapons, such as phosphorus and cluster munitions.

While the vast majority of casualties were Lebanese civilians, at least 1,200 killed
and 3,600 wounded, Israel paid a very high price for the ill-advised invasion, losing
some 120 soldiers with many more severely wounded and maimed for life. The
Hezbollah resistance succeeded in knocking out Israeli warships, helicopters, and
scores of tanks.

In December 2006, however, it all seemed to be forgotten when Olmert visited the
White House and European capitals where he was treated with unusual deference by
the most powerful politicians of the western world.

In Rome, where Olmert met Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Pope Benedict
XVI, a television camera caught Olmert telling Prodi exactly what to say before a
press conference.

Olmert with Italian Prime

Minister Romano Prodi at Villa
Madama in Rome

THE ISRAELI DICTATES

The footage, taken by an Israeli cameraman, shows Olmert telling Prodi to mention
the international community's demands that the Hamas-led Palestinian government
recognize Israel, renounce terror, and respect signed peace agreements.

"It's important for me that you emphasize the three principles of the Quartet, that they
are not negotiable, that they are the basis for everything. Please say this," Olmert
instructed the submissive Italian prime minister.

Olmert also asked Prodi to recognize Israel's status as a Jewish state, a position which
would preclude and negate the fundamental Palestinian demand that the millions of
displaced refugees and their descendants be allowed to return to their land and homes.

"I have heard you say something about the Jewish state," Olmert prompted the
subservient Prodi, the former President of the European Commission.

At the press conference, the servile Prodi dutifully performed as instructed: "Every
peace process must go through a renouncing of violence, recognition of the state of
Israel, recognition of past agreements and, I must add, also the recognition of Israel as
a Jewish state," Prodi said.

Olmert, whose military massacred hundreds of Lebanese women and children,

including scores of innocent civilians in the biblical village of Cana only four months
ago, asked Pope Benedict XVI to urge Christians to protest scientific inquiry into
Zionist claims about the number of Jews killed over 60 years ago in Europe,
according to Israeli officials.

Earlier, during a visit to Berlin, Olmert gave a television interview in which he

admitted that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. Israel's nuclear activities are
unlawful and have been conducted outside the purview of the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

WHO IS OLMERT?

After his party, Kadima, won the election on March 28, 2006, Olmert became Israel's
prime minister. His first two months in office were described as "the most criminal
period" in Israeli history.

"Talking peace and drumming up support for his realignment plan of settlement,
Ehud Olmert's 8 weeks in power proved to be the bloodiest, deadliest and the most
criminal period of the 58-year-old state of Israel," Duraid Al Baik, foreign editor of
Gulf News wrote in his article, "Olmert: The criminal who peddles peace."

"Since he was sworn in as the 12th prime minister of Israel on April 14, the Israelis
have killed more than 50 Palestinians and injured around 200 almost at a rate of 1
killed and 4 injured per day," Al Baik wrote. "The new prime minister has set a
record, surpassing the one established by his predecessor Ariel Sharon during the
bloodiest days of the Palestinian uprising or intifada."

Although the controlled press in the United States ignores Israeli war crimes, Olmert's
criminal links demand to be exposed because of his intimate connection to the
convicted Israeli criminal who controlled airport security and passenger screening
operations at Boston Logan Airport on 9/11.

This connection is just "the tip of the iceberg" – the most visible part of the Zionist
criminal network behind the false flag terror attacks that ushered in the criminal
aggression known as the "War on Terror."

ZIONIST GOALS

Although Zionists exert incredible influence on U.S. politics, Zionism itself remains a
political philosophy woefully misunderstood by the majority of the U.S. population.
Although President George W. Bush and his war cabinet are clearly controlled by
Zionists and are advancing their agenda, an agenda promoted and supported by nearly
every member of Congress, Zionism and its bloody history are subjects most
Americans know virtually nothing about.

While American universities offer courses in practically every subject imaginable, a

college curriculum offering a critical examination of Zionism and its history is not to
be found.

The public's general ignorance of Zionism is compounded by the controlled media,

which grossly distorts and misinterprets Zionism to make this un-American
philosophy appear to be something positive and benevolent. The history of Zionist
terror and ethnic cleansing, something most Israelis and Palestinians are well aware
of, is utterly unknown to most Americans, primarily due to academic and media
censorship.

After the false flag terror attacks of 9/11, which the evidence clearly indicates
involved Israeli intelligence agents, and with more than 150,000 Americans engaged
in costly and disastrous wars in the Middle East, Americans can no longer afford to
remain ignorant of Zionism and its goals.

WHAT IS ZIONISM?

Zionism developed as a political movement alongside Communism in the late 1800s

in the Jewish communities of the Russian Empire. In towns with large Jewish
populations in Lithuania, Poland, Byelorussia, and the Ukraine, Zionism became a
nationalistic movement for Jews. The Communist and Zionist movements were
closely linked from the beginning.

The religious-political ideology of Zionism led Jews in search of a national identity to

begin speaking and writing Hebrew, a reconstituted language which had not been
spoken for thousands of years.

In the Soviet Union, Jews were considered a national group and Jewish "nationality"
was denoted in Soviet passports. The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin even established the
Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzan in 1934 with Yiddish as the official
language.

Although the Eastern European Jews known as the Ashkenazi are not of Semitic
origin, but largely descendents of Slavic and Asiatic converts to Judaism, Zionist zeal
led them to misidentify themselves as "Hebrew," when, for example, they immigrated
to the United States.

The primary objective of political Zionism has always been the formation of a purely
Jewish state in Palestine, something which never existed. The fact that Palestine was
already inhabited by Palestinians, the rightful owners of the land and descendents of
Jews, Arabs, Greeks, and other races in the Holy Land, was something radical
Zionists refused to accept.

The armed conquest and ethnic cleansing of Palestine was promoted in the 1930s by
Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, one of the most militant Zionists. In 1937, Jabotinsky,
born in Odessa, established the Irgun, a terrorist organization linked to his New
Zionist Organization (N.Z.O) and the Betar youth movement.

The Jabotinsky ideology maintains that the Jewish people have exclusive rights to all
the Land of Israel, which it claims extends from the Nile of Egypt to the Euphrates
River in Iraq.

OLMERT AND JABOTINSKY

Ehud Olmert is an ideological child of Jabotinsky. Olmert's father, Mordechai, joined

the right-wing Herut movement and the Irgun, then led by the notorious Zionist
terrorist Menachem Begin. This movement evolved into the extreme far right Likud
party.

Olmert's intensely right-wing family lived on a cooperative farm called Nahalat

Jabotinsky. As a child, Olmert was a member of Betar, Jabotinsky's militaristic youth
movement. Begin, the hard-line Israeli prime minister who held the credo "In blood
and fire Judea fell; in blood and fire Judea shall rise," referred to Olmert as "Ehud,
my son."

Olmert, a member of Israel's parliament since 1973, became mayor of occupied

Jerusalem in 1993, and oversaw 10 years of illegal Israeli settlement and expansion.
The occupied territory that Israelis now claim as Jerusalem extends from Bethlehem
in the south to Ramallah in the north and nearly to Jericho in the east.

In the racist ideology of Jabotinsky Zionists like Olmert, there is simply no place for
the Palestinians in the Land of Israel: "There is no choice: the Arabs must make room
for the Jews of Eretz Israel," Jabotinsky wrote. "If it was possible to transfer the
Baltic peoples, it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs."

The Israeli barrier wall that surrounds the Palestinians of the West Bank is an idea
taken straight from Jabotinsky's 1923 book, The Iron Wall: We and the Arabs.

"Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be

terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native
population. This colonization can, therefore, continue and
develop only under the protection of a force independent of the
local population – an iron wall which the native population
cannot break through."

Olmert has provided weapons and training to support the "private army" of
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in order to foment a civil conflict
between Palestinian factions. Abbas is viewed by many Palestinians as a quisling
working with the Israelis against the elected Palestinian government led by the Hamas
party.

Among Olmert's terrorist actions prior to his aggression of Lebanon was the frequent
shelling and bombing of civilians in Gaza. Eight members of one family were killed
on the beach of Gaza in a particularly egregious Israeli terror attack on June 9, 2006.
This blatant act of Zionist terror was followed by usual Israeli denial of responsibility
although their armed forces had been shelling the Gaza Strip at the time the family
was hit.

Mark Garlasco, a military expert working for the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch,
was the first independent investigator to reach the scene of the crime. Garlasco found
shrapnel from a 155 mm artillery shell. "My assessment [is] that it's likely that this
was incoming artillery fire that landed on the beach and was fired by the Israelis from
the north of Gaza," he said.
OLMERT AND ATZMON

Olmert, who has a long history of involvement in Israeli financial crimes, was
indicted on charges of aggravated fraud, falsifying corporate documents, and
violations of the tax code and Party Funding Law from crimes committed when he
was the party treasurer for the Likud party in 1988.

The Likud fundraising scandal culminated in the March 1996 conviction of three
Likudniks, including Menahem Atzmon, Olmert's co-treasurer. As the party
treasurer, Olmert was indicted in the Likud crimes but received special treatment and
was acquitted.

During the 1970s Olmert had worked in the law firm owned by another Atzmon, Uzi
Atzmon.

Menahem J. Atzmon, Olmert's co-defendant and ally, was convicted in Israel but
went on to become the founder and head of International Consultants on Targeted
Security (ICTS). This Israeli-run company is the owner of Huntleigh USA, the
airport security firm that ran passenger screening operations at the airports of Boston
and Newark on 9/11.

Huntleigh USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICTS, a Netherlands-based aviation

and transportation security firm headed by “former [Israeli] military commanding
officers and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies.”

Atzmon, convicted in Israel in 1996 for crimes committed with Likud party fund
raising schemes, and his business partner Ezra Harel, took over passenger screening
and security at the Boston and Newark airports when ICTS acquired Huntleigh USA
in 1999.

United Flight 175 and American Flight 11, which allegedly struck the twin towers,
both originated from Boston's Logan Airport, while United Flight 93, which
purportedly crashed in Pennsylvania, departed from the Newark airport. Atzmon, a
convicted Israeli criminal, is the CEO who also controls and operates the German port
of Rostock on the Baltic Sea. The bus the blew up at Tavistock exploded outside the
London office of ICTS.

Some 9/11 victims’ families brought lawsuits against Huntleigh USA claiming the
security firm had been grossly negligent on 9-11. While these relatives have the right
to know what the Israeli security company did or did not do to protect their loved
ones on 9-11, Huntleigh, along with two other foreign security companies, was
granted congressional protection in 2002 and will not be called to account for its
actions in any U.S. court.

Atzmon, a convicted criminal, political ally and co-defendant of Israel's Prime

Minister Ehud Olmert, was directly responsible for passenger and airline security at
Boston's Logan Airport, whence the two airliners which struck the World Trade
Center originated. His airport security firm is a prime suspect in the false flag terror
attacks of 9/11.

Olmert's relationship with Atzmon and his responsibility for Boston's airport security
on 9/11 is a conspicuous tip – completely ignored by the controlled press – of the
Israeli and Zionist criminal network involved in the terror attacks that started the so-
called "War on Terror."

How often do top Israeli

officials and Rabbis join
the Christmas or Easter
celebrations at the White
House or European
governments?