Few world leaders understand the political utility of false-flag terrorism as well as Benjamin Netanyahu. Indeed, both his right-wing Likud Party and his Israel Defense Forces sprang forth from underground Zionist terror groups Irgun, Lehi and Haganah, which bombed and butchered Israel into existence in 1948. It was Likud's founding father, Menachem Begin, who so perfected the use of terrorism as a political tool that he crowned himself "father of world terrorism" during an interview with British journalist Russell Warren Howe in 1974.
Begin's terrorist bona fides, which include bombing the King David Hotel in 1946, earned him a spot on the British government's most-wanted list, restricting his entry into England until 1977 when the fugitive soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared for a political conference as the newly-elected Prime Minister of Israel. [1]
Two years later, Begin headed a committee that organized the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, a three-day event intended to "launch an international propaganda offensive to promote and exploit the issue of international terrorism," as Philip Paull of San Francisco State University wrote in his 1982 thesis International Terrorism: The Propaganda War. The event was held at the Jonathan Institute -- founded by Benjamin Netanyahu and his father Benzion -- and its purpose was to bring western political leaders together to discuss international terrorism and the possibility of bringing America's military into the Middle East to wage a war on terror. The elder Netanyhau (born Mileikowsky) said in his opening address, "This conference was called to serve as a beginning of a new process -- the purpose of rallying democracies of the world to a struggle against terrorism and the dangers it represents." From that point on, the western media dutifully disseminated the propaganda of the Jerusalem Conference and Benjamin Netanyahu authored three books and made frequent media appearances throughout the 1980's and 90's promoting the doctrine of a global War on Terror that came into existence following the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City and Washington DC.
People would do well to listen closely and read between the lines whenever Benjamin Netanyahu speaks. [2]
As far back as 1995, in his book Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists, Netanyahu presciently predicted that radical Islamist militants might attempt to bring down the World Trade Center towers by planting a nuclear device in the basements (a prediction which bears some similarity to the one made by Mossad spymaster Isser Harel 16 years earlier during an interview with converso journalist Michael Evans). When his prophecy was fulfilled on the morning of September 11, 2001, whether by nuclear means or not, Netanyahu told James Bennett, the newly-appointed Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times, that it was "very good" for Israel as the attack would "generate immediate sympathy" for the Zionist cause.
Terror at Home and Abroad
Many Israelis are well aware that the Netanyahu government played some role in allowing the events of October 7, 2023 to transpire for hours on end without any meaningful military response. As early as October 26, 2023 The Times of Israel reported on a group of IDF soldiers who, for months prior to the attack, repeatedly tried to pass information about "digging, mapping, (and) training near the fence" up their chain of command, but were completely ignored. As I point out in my article October 7 in Context, the New York Times of Dec. 2, 2023 reported that:
Israel knew of Hamas's plan to attack a year in advance and were even in possession of their 40-page battle plan document, codenamed 'Jericho Wall,' that was said to "uncannily mirror" what actually transpired on October 7. More shocking still was a report in Associated Press (Dec. 1, 2023), which detailed Israel's obvious awareness of the forthcoming military operation: "The attack was planned in plain sight. A month before the assault, Hamas posted a video to social media showing fighters using explosives to blast through a replica of the border gate, sweep in on pickup trucks and then move building by building through a full-scale reconstruction of an Israeli town, firing automatic weapons at human-silhouetted targets." [3]
Indeed, there are even many Israelis who believe Netanyahu bears some responsibility for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995.
Rabin had earned the ire of right-wing and religious fanatics after signing Oslo Accords I and II in 1993 and 1995. In response, Netanyahu took it upon himself to appear as the public face of the opposition, becoming somewhat of a lightning rod for the rabble-rousers on the extreme right who were inciting violence against Rabin at mass demonstrations by portraying the Israeli Labor Party prime minister in a Nazi uniform or wearing a keffiyeh. During Netanyahu-led demonstrations in Jerusalem's Zion Square and the Ra'anana junction, protesters carried nooses and mock coffins and held signs that featured slogans like "In Blood and Fire We Will Expel Rabin." Following the 21st anniversary of Rabin's assassination, Israeli newspaper Haaretz excoriated Bibi for contributing to the fanatical climate of hostility which motivated Rabin's Talmudic murderer, Yigal Amir:
The images of Netanyahu standing smugly on the balcony at Zion Square, with cries beneath him of "Rabin is a traitor," "Rabin is a murderer" and placards being waved of Rabin in an SS uniform and the crowd singing "Death to Rabin," cannot be denied. Their significance cannot be denied, either... In real time, Netanyahu marched in front of the mock coffin and gave the incitement his approval. In real time, Netanyahu saw the picture of Rabin being burned and did not respond. In real time, Netanyahu gave the incitement free rein, and thus betrayed his role as a leader in a democratic country... One cannot suspect for a moment that Netanyahu ever acted to calm the discourse -- the absolute opposite is true... Netanyahu's repudiation of responsibility for the atmosphere that led to Rabin's murder will not succeed.
Yes friends, Bibi the Butcher can often be found in close proximity to nations-altering events.
Some may recall that Netanyahu was staying at a hotel in London at the time of the numerically-significant 7/7 tube train and bus bombings that killed 52 and injured over 700 in 2005. As Israel's finance minister at the time, Bibi was scheduled to speak at an economic conference at the Grand Eastern Hotel located right next to Liverpool Street Station, the precise location of one of the underground blasts that day. (A Foreign Ministry official who spoke to the media on condition of anonymity, claimed the British police warned the Israeli Embassy in London of possible terror attacks before the first explosion.)
Almost immediately after the bombs went off, Mossad chief Efraim Halevy wrote in the Jerusalem Post about "multiple, simultaneous explosions that took place today on the London transportation system" although nobody, including London police, knew the blasts were simultaneous until later. On the morning of the terror attacks, Peter Power, head of Visor Consultants, conducted a terror drill that eerily shadowed what actually unfolded. Interviewed by BBC Radio 5's Peter Allen on the afternoon of 7/7, Power stated:
"At half-past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for... a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now! ... We planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers, for the first time they'd met, and so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision, 'this is the real one' and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from 'slow time' to 'quick time' thinking and so on." [4]
Later that day, Power appeared in a television interview on ITV News and provided further details about the terror drill:
"Today we were running an exercise for a company...and we sat everybody down, in the city -- 1,000 people involved in the whole organization -- but the crisis team. And the most peculiar thing was we based our scenario on the simultaneous attacks on an underground and mainline station. So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from 'fictional' to 'real.'...I was up to 2 o'clock this morning, because it's our job, my own company Visor Consultants, we specialize in helping people get their crisis management response...And we chose a scenario -- with their assistance -- which is based on a terrorist attack because they're very close to, er, a property occupied by Jewish businessmen, they're in the city, and there are more American banks in the city than there are in the whole of New York..."
Interestingly, a year prior to the attacks, the infamous Israeli company Comverse/Verint was awarded a contract to provide networked video and CCTV security systems for the London Underground which were designed to allow security personnel the ability to monitor passenger platforms and remote track areas across selected lines. Detective Inspector Ewan Kindress, the man in charge of the CCTV recovery team at the Metropolitan Police, told coroner Lady Justice Hallett that the CCTV operation was hampered because some organizations did not hold footage for long enough -- or it was unobtainable. The CCTV operational policies, such as the 'seven-day footage retention window' lamented by Kindress, were set by the organization Transport for London, which was headed at the time by CIA agent Robert Kiley, a one-time executive assistant to Richard Helms, President and CEO of David Rockefeller's New York City Partnership, a principal of Kohlberg & Company, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Oddly enough, the bus that was blown up that day, which just-so-happened to feature a promotional tagline for a film on its side which read "Outright Terror...Bold and Brilliant," detonated right outside the corporate head office of Israeli security firm ICTS UK located in Tavistock Square. [5]
Bibi's Recent Shenanigans
In early September, an explosive report by Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz was released revealing that 10 days before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Netanyahu received an explicit warning in the form of a phone call from UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed that Hamas was planning a major operation, but Bibi did nothing with the information. According to The Times of Israel:
"The Haaretz report cited a new book, "Kidnapped: 843 Days of Abandonment,' by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, based on interviews with dozens of sources including senior officials in Israel and around the world. It said three senior foreign officials were updated on the contents of the 45-minute phone call at the end of September, and it cited a Palestinian adviser to Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed who emigrated from Gaza to the UAE and had direct knowledge of the conversation.
It said Mohammed bin Zayed (known as MBZ) warned Netanyahu that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major action against Israel that would lead to bloodshed, unsettle the region and potentially harm the Abraham Accords. The report said MBZ was surprised by Netanyahu's response in the 45-minute phone call, which was sanguine, with the Israel premier telling him Jerusalem was on top of things in Gaza, that any Hamas action was likely to come from the West Bank, and that Israel was prepared for any scenario."
In the face of these allegations, Bibi made an unannounced trip to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday September 27, to pressure MBZ to deny the reports, per sources familiar with Netanyahu's visit who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. The following day Netanyahu's office and the UAE's official media agency both confirmed the meeting took place, although Bibi rejected the AP's claim about the reason for his trip as "fake news." Netanyahu's denial, however, is contradicted by multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of the meeting cited by The Times of Israel:
"The visit came amid controversy in Israel over a reported warning given by the Emirati leader to Netanyahu a week and a half before the Hamas-led massacre, as well as several other reports of warnings, including from Egypt's former intelligence chief, just days before the attack... According to Channel 12, Netanyahu's office asked repeatedly for the sit-down in order to try to convince bin Zayed to issue a denial, but the UAE sees the issue as internal to Israeli politics and does not want to get involved, especially ahead of an election." [6]
That last line could offer a clue to understanding what happened next.
Back in Israel a day after his visit to Abu Dhabi, Netanyahu issued a public warning during a visit to Tel Nof Air base indicating that Israel's enemies might attempt a major attack ahead of the upcoming elections. His claim was immediately rejected by Israeli security/intelligence officials as well as by opposition leaders like Yair Lapid, who accused the prime minister of "fear-mongering" as a means of disrupting the upcoming elections.
Lapid's criticisms were drowned out the following day when a UAE-born co-pilot of a FlyDubai Boeing 747 bound for Tel Aviv allegedly attacked the flight's captain -- an Indian named Smit Machchhar -- with either a knife or an emergency axe before plunging Flight 1073 and its 174 mostly Israeli passengers into a suicidal nosedive that reportedly dropped 14,000 feet in roughly 30 seconds. Miraculously, an Israeli plumber was able to enter the cockpit, subdue and tie up the attacker with help from a dentist, grab ahold of the yoke and level the plane out before handing control over to a backup pilot who happened to be onboard who then executed an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia!
Israeli officials have indicated that the aspiring kamikaze is an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami who was born in the UAE to a Syrian mother and who spent several years in the Emirates before attending university in the UK. Curiously, The Wall Street Journal has reported that Hammami had previously been barred from flying by Omani officials due to concerns over his alleged extremist views. While it has yet to be established whether Oman informed other countries about its concerns, it seems unlikely that a character as questionable as Hammami could evade detection by Israeli intelligence allowing for him to pilot an airliner full of Israelis into Tel Aviv. [7]
Whatever the truth may be there's no question that Benjamin Netanyahu will get a significant bump in the polls if enough Israelis believe they're under threat from hostile foreign adversaries; and the right event could even be used as a casus belli to justify increased US military action against Israel's enemies in the region. (Trump has already made it clear Iran will be "hit very hard" if it is behind the FlyDubai fiasco.)
It's probably not a coincidence that all this happened at the same time as the RAF Fairford Airbase incident and the so-called 'Manchester Plot' are receiving maximum attention in the Western media. Both narratives cast the Iranian state in the role of villain, even while the Iranian Foreign Ministry has categorically denied any government involvement whatsoever. What would Iran have to gain by orchestrating such worthless plots at a time when she's winning the war, world opinion is on her side, and both Trump's and Netanyahu's popularity are at historical lows around the globe? Are we to believe Iranian leaders are stupid enough to skunk their hard-earned credibility and incur the wrath of the militarily-superior Western nations over idiotic operations for which no national interest is served?
What we can say for sure is that Netanyahu has a well-established history of using threats against Israel as a mechanism for clinging to power. With looming court cases dangling over his head like the Sword of Damocles, the Israeli prime minister will obviously try everything he can to maintain his political grip. Speaking recently about his documentary film 'The Bibi Files,' director Alexis Bloom observed that, at this point, all of Netanyahu's actions are taken with a mind towards staying out of prison:
"The main message of the documentary is that this man who is leading Israel to the bottom of the sea has a very serious legal case... It's sort of like a monkey on his back, and people forget that he's motivated to stay out of jail, and everything he does comes back to that."
Bloom's insight helps explain some of Netanyahu's seemingly irrational decisions and how he stands to personally gain from a climate of endless threats and perpetual war. It's likely this whole FlyDubai episode has a considerably more mundane reality to it than the one being whipped up into "Israel's 9/11" by Bibi and his fellow Jewish scriptwriters. Certainly, there is no shortage of outlandish claims and inconsistencies in the unfolding narrative.
Notes:
1.) While serving as prime minister in 2006, Netanyahu attended a two-day 60th anniversary celebration of the King David Hotel bombing with surviving members of the Irgun and Haganah.
2.) On April 10, 2026, Netanyahu issued a public video message in which he threatened that Spain would pay an immediate price for waging a diplomatic war against Israel. In July, Spain declared a national emergency after a series of wildfires threatened communities near Madrid and the province of Avila, forcing thousands to flee. Later that same month, the Spanish North African enclave Ceuta was spontaneously overrun by more than 70,000 migrants from Morocco. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez explicitly accused intelligence and social media networks linked to Israel of spreading false reports claiming that any migrant who reached Ceuta would be given legal status and would be allowed to stay.
3.) Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confirmed that the IDF invoked the controversial Hannibal Directive on October 7th, which likely led to the deaths of many, if not most, Israeli citizens that day.
4.) See also: Nick Kollerstrom's Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7 and Christopher Bollyn's Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World.
5.) Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a close associate of Robert Kiley, was staying at the same hotel as Netanyahu at the time of the blasts.
6.) During his stay in Abu Dhabi, Netanyahu met with senior officials from other Middle Eastern countries to discuss regional cooperation against Iran. Israel's Kan News reported that military and government planes from Libya, Morocco, Qatar and Riyadh landed in Abu Dhabi at the same time as Netanyahu's visit.
7.) The Times of Israel has noted with alarm the large number of online accounts immediately questioning the official story.
