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Netanyahu: “We also have a September 11. We remember October 7. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
By JNS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday invoked the memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States as he defended Israel’s strike in Qatar targeting Hamas leaders behind the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
“We remember September 11. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery on American soil since the founding of the United States,” Netanyahu said. “We also have a September 11. We remember October 7. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
The premier drew a direct comparison between Israel’s actions and the U.S. campaign against Al-Qaeda.
“What did America do in the wake of September 11? It promised to hunt down the terrorists who committed this heinous crime, wherever they may be,” he said. “And it also passed a resolution in the Security Council of the U.N., two weeks later, that said that governments cannot give harbor to terrorists.
“Well, yesterday, we acted along those lines. We went after the terrorist masterminds who committed the October 7 massacre. And we did so in Qatar, which gives safe haven, it harbors terrorists, it finances Hamas, it gives its terrorist chieftains sumptuous villas, it gives them everything,” Netanyahu continued.
He stressed that Israel’s operation followed the same model the United States used when it pursued Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and ultimately eliminated Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
“Now, the various countries of the world condemn Israel. They should be ashamed of themselves,” continued Netanyahu. “What did they do after America took out Osama bin Laden? Did they say, ‘Oh, what a terrible thing was done to Afghanistan or to Pakistan?’ No, they applauded. They should applaud Israel for standing up to the same principles and carrying them out.”
The prime minister ended with a warning: “And I say to Qatar and all nations who harbor terrorists, you either expel them or you bring them to justice. Because if you don’t, we will.”
On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners set to travel from the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions to California.
The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, two of the world’s five tallest buildings at the time.
A third plane was crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Va., while a fourth aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania amid a passenger revolt.
The attacks killed 2,977 people.
On Thursday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar tweeted: “Remember 9/11. Remember the victims. We stand together in our shared fight for freedom and against terror.”
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