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Last update - 17:34 16/04/2008
Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Tags: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu 

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."

Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.
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Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the veracity of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.

"Under this pretext, they [the U.S.] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq."

Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran's nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s.

Netanyahu said Iran differed from the Nazis in one vital respect, explaining that "where that [Nazi] regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons," he said. "This regime [Iran] is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict."

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      1.   Natanyahu- May Be The Stupidist Jew Ever 11:10  |  dyinglikeflies 16/04/08
      2.   Bibi running wild... 11:10  |  Esther 16/04/08
      3.   Says it all really 11:14  |  Chris Linthwaite 16/04/08
      4.   Thanks Bibi, you`re the best 11:15  |  Natallie Durson 16/04/08
      5.   what a discusting man 11:22  |  VIPER 16/04/08
      6.   Oy Vey! 11:28  |  Yosemite 16/04/08
      7.   7-11 11:29  |  Shimon Cleopas 16/04/08
      8.   He who benefitted, did it. 11:37  |  Just Believer 16/04/08
      9.   US should stop aid to this messed up region 11:41  |  BG 16/04/08
      10.   Maybe Netanyahu Meant 7-11? It`s A Great Store! 11:44  |  dyinglikeflies 16/04/08
      11.   Will this "news" ever reach the "mainstream" U.S. media....??? 11:53  |  Swiss (Dino) 16/04/08
      12.   Ah, this Bibi... 12:00  |  Esther 16/04/08
      13.   We are not your lapdog 12:04  |  bill 16/04/08
      14.   ohhhhh yes it`s helping.... 12:13  |  watcher 16/04/08
      15.   Putting a spin of Netanyahu`s words 12:26  |  Zev 16/04/08
      16.   Let`s guess what he may have been thinking? 12:30  |  Maureen Ann 16/04/08
      17.   Why, oh why...?! 12:39  |  Esther 16/04/08
      18.   Why, oh why...?! 12:45  |  Esther 16/04/08
      19.   #11-Of course it will get out to the US media and state dept. 13:04  |  Dorothy Friend 16/04/08
      20.   EVERY DEATHS AND DESTRUCTIONS WERE GOOD FOR ISRAEL 13:28  |  indrajaya 16/04/08
      21.   Please ignore our dumb politicians 13:35  |  Israeli 16/04/08
      22.   well im sure thats a comfort to the vitims famalies 13:37  |  SJ 16/04/08
      23.   Ugly truth 13:38  |  jjvanka 16/04/08
      24.   What he used to be! 13:42  |  Ros 16/04/08
      25.   Bibi 13:45  |  Shimon 16/04/08
      26.   Wonder what he`ll say next 13:46  |  LisaV 16/04/08
      27.   Slow down, you 13:49  |  Buzaglow 16/04/08
      28.   Only silly Haaretz TBs react to headline as fact 13:53  |  Ilan 16/04/08
      29.   Politicians are pragmatic thinkers 13:58  |  1957 Closet Classic 16/04/08
      30.   # 21, ISRAELI 14:02  |  indrajaya 16/04/08
      31.   # 19 Dorothy Friend 14:02  |  Swiss (Dino) 16/04/08
      32.   Bibi is helping spread Anti-Semitism! 14:03  |  Mark 16/04/08
      33.   Beyond Chutzpah into Self Mutilation 14:06  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/04/08
      34.   These Comments make people hate Israel! 14:11  |  Mark 16/04/08
      35.   The Israel press never reported it but... 14:12  |  Chanalau, Tova 16/04/08
      36.   Netanyahu is going to greatly increase antisemitism 14:14  |  Steve Randolph 16/04/08
      37.   Why leaders need psychoanalysis 14:14  |  Marco 16/04/08
      38.   Open mouth, insert foot 14:17  |  Aphemia 16/04/08
      39.   What a Jerk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 14:22  |  Phillip 16/04/08
      40.   Judge who is the better friend of America, Britain or Israel 14:27  |  Clickfool 16/04/08
      41.   Difficult choice next elections 14:30  |  Lobo08 16/04/08
      42.   Looks as if Israeli politicians 14:38  |  Lynn 16/04/08
      43.   Maybe Netanyahu is losing it 14:41  |  Sam 16/04/08
      44.   Two Peas In A Pod 14:41  |  Yaakov Sullivan 16/04/08
      45.   This backs the conspiracy theorists 14:49  |  Stanley 16/04/08
      46.   Ahmadinejad is wrong...each and every name 14:53  |  Lynn 16/04/08
      47.   Wonder if Giuliani Were Still NYC Mayor? 14:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 16/04/08
      48.   Taken out of context...? Whats he really saying.? 14:53  |  Stephen. 16/04/08
      49.   The amazing thing 14:54  |  Clickfool 16/04/08
      50.   9-11 GOOD FOR ISRAEL 14:57  |  JOHN ISH ISHMAEL 16/04/08
      51.   Every day in Israel.. 14:58  |  Clickfool 16/04/08
      52.   WHAT A F-ing Idiot 15:08  |  Alon 16/04/08
      53.   30# more precisely 15:10  |  ChachChach 16/04/08
      54.   I agree with Mr. Netanyahu 15:11  |  American Christian 16/04/08
      55.   deffinitley Barak, 15:11  |  Alon 16/04/08
      56.   # 51. Clickfool. At least it keeps you busy. 15:20  |  Stephen. 16/04/08
      57.   What an Idiot. 15:27  |  Daniel Temkin 16/04/08
      58.   Oh sure! I`ll believe that. 15:37  |  Gideon Reader 16/04/08
      59.   Bibi`s stupidity knows no bounds 15:43  |  Zolman ben Moshe 16/04/08
      60.   Interesting - I did not find this quote in Maariv 15:46  |  Mark Geyzer 16/04/08
      61.   Netanyahu is a fool - this is news? 15:47  |  Ofer Maimon 16/04/08
      62.   INDRAJAYA.SO WHY DO YOU DO "DEATHS AND DESTRUCTIONS"? 15:53  |  PETER SM 16/04/08
      63.   Bibi Netanyahu And Haaretz Playing On Words,and Distortions 15:54  |  K 16/04/08
      64.   # 40 Clicky...and I thank each and every one 15:54  |  Lynn 16/04/08
      65.   Nasuseating 15:55  |  Nathaniel 16/04/08
      66.   WHO TO LOVE ! WHO TO TRUST ! WHO TO BELIEVE HAARETZ ? 15:56  |  atilla karagözoğlu 16/04/08
      67.   no kidding 15:57  |  curious george 16/04/08
      68.   haaretz ! I need you ban me forever. 15:58  |  atilla karagözoğlu 16/04/08
      69.   Nauseating 15:58  |  Nathaniel 16/04/08
      70.   re: "thanks Bibi" in # 4 16:02  |  Antonietta 16/04/08
      71.   BB 16:03  |  Neal 16/04/08
      72.   Why were 5 Israelis arrested in NYC for dancing in the streets? 16:07  |  POP