{"id":213013,"date":"2020-09-04T06:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213013"},"modified":"2020-09-07T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T07:57:18","slug":"the-dancing-israelis-fbi-docs-shed-light-on-apparent-mossad-foreknowledge-of-9-11-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213013","title":{"rendered":"The Dancing Israelis: FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whitney Webb \u2013 Mint Press News Sept 10, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Four of the Israeli nationals arrested for \u201cpuzzling behavior\u201d during the September 11 attacks are seen casually posing together in front of the Manhattan skyline while the September 11 attacks were in progress. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests<\/strong><\/span><\/a> made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called \u201cHigh Fivers,\u201d or the \u201cDancing Israelis.\u201d However, new information released by the FBI on May 7 has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the \u201cDancing Israelis,\u201d at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after 8:46 a.m. on the day of the attacks, just minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five men \u2014 later revealed to be Israeli nationals \u2014 had positioned themselves in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they were seen taking pictures and filming the attacks while also celebrating the destruction of the towers and \u201chigh fiving\u201d each other. At least one eyewitness<\/a><\/strong><\/span> interviewed by the FBI had seen the Israelis\u2019 van in the parking lot as early as 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack. The story received<\/a> coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in U.S. mainstream media<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the time but has since been largely forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n

The men \u2014 Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Yaron Shimuel and Omar Marmari \u2014 were subsequently apprehended<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by law enforcement and claimed to be Israeli tourists on a \u201cworking holiday\u201d in the United States where they were employed by a moving company, Urban Moving Systems. Upon his arrest, Sivan Kurzberg told the arresting officer, \u201cWe are Israeli; we are not your problem. Your problems are our problems, The Palestinians are the problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For years, the official story has been that these individuals, while they had engaged in \u201cimmature\u201d behavior by celebrating and being \u201cvisibly happy\u201d in their documenting of the attacks, had no prior knowledge of the attack. However, newly released FBI copies of the photo<\/strong><\/span>s<\/a> taken by the five Israelis strongly suggest that these individuals had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The copies of the photos were obtained via a FOIA request made by a private citizen<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A high-quality photo, top, shows the area the dancing Israelis were staged. Credit | Panamza. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

According to a former high-ranking American intelligence official who spoke to the Jewish Daily <\/em>Forward<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> in 2002, the FBI concluded in its investigation that the five Israelis arrested \u201cwere conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, NJ, served as a front.\u201d At least two of the men arrested were determined<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to have direct links to the Mossad after their names appeared in a CIA-FBI database of foreign intelligence operatives. According to one of their lawyers, one of the men, Paul Kurzberg, had previously worked for the Mossad in another country prior to arriving in the United States. Another of those arrested, Oded Ellner, subsequently stated<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Israeli TV that the five Israelis had been in New York at the time \u201cto document the event,\u201d meaning the attack on the World Trade Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FOIA release of the photos<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is notable because responses to prior FOIA requests to the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, had previously claimed that all of the photos taken by the Israeli nationals had been destroyed in January 2014. The photos themselves are heavily redacted, making it impossible to see the Israelis\u2019 facial expressions. However, previously declassified yet heavily redacted FBI reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a> state that the Israelis are \u201cvisibly happy\u201d in nearly every photo, even when the burning towers are in the background. The photos released are also not original copies and instead appear to be photocopies of photocopies of the original pictures. In addition, of the original 76 pictures developed by authorities from the camera in the Israelis\u2019 possession, only 14 were released.<\/span><\/p>\n

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