Flashback: Israeli
Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's cheerful mood in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks
Propaganda alert
compiled by Cem Ertür
20 January 2014
“We have assembled here today [...] in
order to
bow
our heads in sorrow and deep mourning over the deaths of innocent
citizens in New York and Washington [...] [perpetrated] by criminal
terrorists of the worst kind that the world has known since World War
II, and even beyond.” said the then Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon
during a speech at the Israeli parliament Knesset fıve days
after
the 9/11 attacks. [1] However, some photos
taken in the three months after the attacks betray a
strikingly different mood of both Mr Sharon (1928-2014) and the foreign
political leaders with
whom he held consultations...
Jerusalem
Mayor Ehud Olmert, New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
New York Governor George Pataki
and New York City Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg, Jerusalem,
9 December 2001. The New
York delegation
was on a solidarity visit in the wake of the bombing attacks in
Jerusalem.
“The people of Jerusalem and the people of New York City are
shoulder-to-shoulder, and the people of America and the people of
Israel are shoulder-to-shoulder in the fight against terrorism. We feel
a great kinship with the people of Israel. We always have and I think
since September 11 and what's happened here in Israel we're even
closer.”
[New
York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, press remarks during a visit to the site of recent bombing
attacks
in Jerusalem, 9 December 2001]
[2]
U.S.
President George Bush and
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, White House, Washington D.C.,
2 December
2001
“[U.S.]
president
[George Bush] told me that the United States is a true friend and
partner of the state of Israel. In times of peace, just as today in our
fight against terror, the United States and Israel stand
together.”
[Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's address to the nation, Jerusalem, 3 December 2001. The speech
was delivered in the wake of the bombing attacks in Jerusalem.]
[3]
Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hold a press conference at the
site of the Center attacks,
New York City, 30
November 2001
“Terror
must be fought
everywhere. Israel and the United States will win in that battle.
[…] Iraq is a state that is exceptionally
dangerous for
Israel, a state with the potential for and knowledge of weapons of mass
destruction. It may be that within a short time they will have nuclear
weapons.”
[Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
joint press conference with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at the
site of the World Trade Center attacks, New York
City, 30 November 2001.]
[4]
Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sharon's official residence in
Jerusalem,
1 November 2001
“I
would like to praise [British]
Prime Minister Blair's leadership, together with US President George
Bush, in the struggle against global terrorism. It is a fight for basic
values, freedom, liberty, security and democracy. It is a fight that
every peace loving nation supports for the sake of the security of
future generations.
Bashar Assad is hosting the eleven most dangerous and radical terrorist
organisations. […] [Syria] allowed the Iranians to
build
there an independent international centre, and international, regional
and local centre of terror, bringing in thousands of rockets and
Cartusa launchers and Cartusa Missiles and that of course makes Syria a
country of terror - the center of terror.”
[Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, joint press conference with British Prime
Minister Tony Blair at Sharon's official residence, Jerusalem, 1
November 2001. The press conference was held a month after the
launch of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.]
[5]
Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
and Turkey's Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, Sharon's farm in Shiqmim,
Israel,
22 September 2001
“We share the sorrow of the United States and we believe that
we
should all participate strongly in the war against terrorism that is
being initiated. […] We are the forefront of that
coalition, which is going to and which is fighting terrorism. There is
no question about it.”
[
Turkey’s
Foreign Minister
Ismail Cem, joint
press conference with Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres, Tel Aviv, 21 September 2001. The press conference was held 10
days after the September 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington
D.C.] [6]
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Notes:
[1] PM
Sharon Addresses the Knesset's Special Solidarity Session
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, 16 September 2001
[2] Giuliani:
Israel, U.S. shoulder-to-shoulder in fight against terror
Haaretz, 9 December 2001
[3] 'This
was
forced on us - a war of terror'
Full text of Ariel Sharon's speech to the Israeli people
The Guardian, 3 December 2001
[4] Ariel Sharon goes ahead
with U.S. trip after a wave of attacks on Israelis
by Steve Weizman, Associated Press, 30 November 2001
[5] Joint
Press Conference by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair following their meeting
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, 1 November 2001
[6] Remarks
following meeting between FM Shimon Peres and Turkish FM Ismail
Cem-21-Sep-2001
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, 21 September 2001
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