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The link points to a direct quote from Osama bin Laden. That's not "misrepresenting his views": "God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but
by faxywaxy 4y ago
The link points to a direct quote from Osama bin Laden. That's not "misrepresenting his views":
"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon—I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the US Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way: to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#September_11_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#September_11_a...
- brigandish 4y ago
- faxywaxy 4y agoHe clearly states in both the quote and the BBC article you posted that Israel's actions are motivation. You're arguing semantics when the point is that Israel is a liability to US citizens and nothing you posted contradicts that. The parent that I was responding to said that it's not debatable that Israel is of strategic value to US citizens and both of our posts show that it definitely is debatable.
- brigandish 4y agoYes, the semantics between only and many. Somehow you wish to gloss over any difference and focus on Israel alone.