[R-G] A telling comment by Benjamin Netanyahu

[shniad at sfu.ca]

The New York Times September 12, 2001, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 22; Column 5; National Desk 
HEADLINE: A DAY OF TERROR: THE ISRAELIS; Spilled Blood Is Seen as Bond That 

Draws 2 Nations Closer 
BYLINE: By JAMES BENNET 
DATELINE: JERUSALEM, Sept. 11

......

Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States
and 
Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, "It's very
good." Then 
he edited himself: "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate
sympathy." He 
predicted that the attack would "strengthen the bond between our two
peoples, 
because we've experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States
has 
now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror."

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