This is what the Democrat Senator Ernest Hollings said in 2004 in the Senate (and in an essay "Bush's Failed Mideast Policy is Creating More Terrorism"), but he was quickly denounced as an anti-semite.
There was also the 'Project for a new American Century' (PNAC) neocon think tank with ties to Israel which formulated the hawkish US foreign policy for the Bush administration.
Not long before 9/11 they wrote: "
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor." ('Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, forces and resources for a New Century').
Robert Kagan, one of the co-founders of the PNAC, left the Republican Party in 2016, because he said Trump was a 'fascist' and he supported Hillary instead.
Now, Hillary campaigned on a platform of more foreign intervention, policing the world and regime change. Trump campaigned on the idea that it would be better to bring troops home, not start new wars and generally adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Bill Kristol, the other founder of the PNAC, also advocated for the war in Iraq, and in 2020 launched the political initiative "Republican Voters Against Trump", in order to get Biden in office, which was described as "waging guerilla warfare within the GOP" (Philadelphia Enquirer).
Also interesting to note that the former vice president under Bush, Cheney, was the CEO of Halliburton (1995 to 2000), the multinational oil company with interests in securing the oil reserves of Iraq.
He was also a member of the board of advisors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) before becoming vice president.
Their stated aim:
"Provide leadership and affect policy on crucial issues of national security and foreign policy; to promote American security cooperation with like-minded allies including, but not limited to, Israel; to engage the American defense community about the role Israel can and does play in securing Western, democratic interests in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions; and to improve awareness in the general public, as well as in the Jewish community of the importance of a strong American defense capability."
Once you start going down the rabbit hole of 9/11, the official story brought to you by your government and the mainstream media starts to look like a manufactured cover.
The problem with criticizing Israel or theorizing that its government may be involved in nefarious things is that you are then immediately accused of anti-semitism.
Which is a shame as it stops honest debate about certain topics, and it unfairly lumps together people/journalists who are just looking to uncover the truth with actual anti-semites.
Also interesting is what the PM of Israel Netanyahu said on twitter recently:
"I would like to start with congratulations for
@JoeBiden and
@KamalaHarris. I have a long and warm personal connection with Joe Biden for nearly 40 years, and I know him as a great friend of the State of Israel."
"For myself and for all citizens of the State of Israel, I again thank President
@realDonaldTrump for the great friendship he showed the State of Israel and me personally."
That's a bit quick isn't it? Biden hasn't even legally won yet, there are still votes being counted, and the election itself is being contested on numerous fronts in law courts by Trump's lawyers.
Trump has done so much for Israel and that's the way Netanyahu repays him, by siding with his rival and waving byebye to Trump before the election is legally over? I suspect that he is overjoyed that Biden appears to have won, because that would mean the beginning of new conflicts in the middle east, possibly even with Iran, in the interests of Israeli power. Trump just wasn't pro-war enough for Netanyahu.
