Israel, 9/11 and Norway.

Across the Muslim world and beyond there is a widely held but mistaken belief that the terrorist attacks that took place in the United States on September 11th 2001 were an Israeli false flag operation. In the intervening years the main way that this belief has been challenged is by pointing out that no-one would be prepared to kill so many people in a false flag attack on a friendly nation.

By carrying out the twin terrorist attacks on Norway last Friday Britain was hoping to send the message that, in 2011, it is prepared to kill a high number of people in a false flag attack on a friendly nation. The idea being that this would make more Muslims believe that the 9/11 attacks were the work of Israel. This is of course on top of the planned narrative that would have seen Muslims wrongly blamed for the Norway attacks for several days only for it to be revealed that there are many people in Europe who hate Muslims. So the idea was to inflame tensions across the Muslim world ahead of September's vote at the United Nations over Palestinian statehood and increase anti-Jewish feeling in the future.

As for the Israeli side of the conflict Breivik's attack on Utoya island took place at a rally of a political youth movement and saw a military looking Aryan man slaughtering a high concentration of people at a camp in the forests of northern Europe. These are all images that bring to mind the Holocaust of the second world war and cause upset and anger to Israelis and Jews across the world. This is of course would have been on top of having to deal with increased levels of upset and anger on the part of Israel's Muslim neighbours. So by carrying out the attacks Britain was also trying to inflame Israeli anger ahead of the UN vote. Within Israel they had help in the form of Tzipi Livni's Kadima Party who got party supporters to stage Tahrir square style street protests in Tel Aviv throughout last weekend.

This of course raises all sorts of questions about what prior knowledge Israel had of the Norway attacks and how did they find out. From what I can gather Britain did formally tell the Kadima Party at least that they were going to do something big, somewhere in Europe during last weekend. I should stress though that there is a world of difference between having prior knowledge that something is going to happen and being able to stop it. For example I know that tonight the sun will dip below the horizon and the sky will turn dark. However the only thing I can do is plan to close the curtains.