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4,000 Jews Did Not Go To Work At WTC On Sept. 11

(AL-MANAR Television - Beirut Lebanon) With the announcement of the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, the international media, particularly the Israeli one, hurried to take advantage of the incident and started mourning 4,000 Israelis who work at the two towers. Then suddenly, no one ever mentioned anything about those Israelis and later it became clear that they remarkably did not show up in their jobs the day the incident took place.

No one talked about any Israeli being killed or wounded in the attacks. Arab diplomatic sources revealed to the Jordanian al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General Security apparatus, the Shabak, the fact which evoked unannounced suspicions on American officials who wanted to know how the Israeli government learned about the incident before it occurred, and the reasons why it refrained from informing the U.S authorities of the information it had.

Suspicions had increased further after Israeli newspaper Yadiot Ahranot revealed that the Shabak prevented Israeli premier Ariel Sharon from traveling to New York and particularly to the city's eastern coast to participate in a festival organized by the Zionist organizations in support of the "Israel". Aharon Bernie, the commentator at the newspaper, brought up the issue and came up with a negative conclusion, saying "no answer". He then asked about the clue behind the Shabak's position in preventing Sharon's participation, and again without giving an answer.

Bernie added that Sharon, who was delighted for having his speech on top of the festival agenda, asked the head of the organization to mediate and convince the Shabak to change its position, but his attempts were in vain. The next day after Sharon's secretary officially announced that Sharon would not participate, the incident took place.

For its part, the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper revealed that the FBI arrested five Israelis four hours after the attack on the Twin Towers while filming the smoking skyline from the roof of their company's building. The FBI had arrested the five for "puzzling behavior". They are said to have been caught videotaping the disaster in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery.

So there are three main points claimed here:

    4000 Israelis/Jews didn't show up for work at the WTC, based on hints from Shabak, according to Arab diplomatic sources.
    Sharon was prevented by Shabak from travelling to New York for an un-named "festival" by un-named "Zionist organizations".
    The FBI arrested 5 Israelis four hours after the WTC attack.

Re: The U.S. State Department's "The 4,000 Jews Rumor"

Just like the ADL's "rebuttal", the State Department's response fails to address the issue. First, the State Department insists that the mere existance of 'The bin Laden tapes' (which are of highly questionable authenticity, mind you) means that the "4,000 Jews absent from work on 9/11" report is patently false. Since when does the existance of grainy video tapes relate to the absence of 4,000 Jews in any way, let alone contradict it?

Second, the highly speculative assertion of the origin of the 4,000 missing Jews statistic proves nothing. The same round number happened to appear in two newspapers within a week. The State Department goes on to imply that the Arab diplomatic sources are nothing more than "conspiracy theorists" who take every opportunity to conjure lies to promote their agenda. That sounds a whole lot like what the State Department seems to be doing here, as well.

It seems to be a common assumption that the reports claim that no Jews died on 9/11. The reports say nothing of the sort. Instead, they briefly mention the sudden change from mourning 4,000 Jews to relative silence on the issue.
Suspiciously Low Number of Israeli Deaths

As a major location for doing business, the World Trade Center would undoubtedly have more than enough Israeli citizens trapped on the upper floors of the buildings, after all it housed tens of thousands of highly paid, high tech and high level jobs and executive positions. Aside from the 19 Mossad Agents posing as Al Qaeda members, only five Israeli citizens died on 9/11. (Only three were actually in the building). Compare that to the 47 from the Dominican Republic, the 41 from India, the 14 from Trinidad and Tobago, the 8 from Pakistan, or even the 6 from Bangladesh. Could they have been forewarned?