http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesAfghanistan.html

Invading Afghanistan did not benefit Israel. Your argument isn’t even cui bono?.

“Also, if the wall isn’t another land grab mechanism, why didn’t they just build it on the Green Line?” – this is a Noam Chomsky logical fallacy. As I wrote, “He employs the logical fallacy known as a ‘false dichotomy’ to do this – pretending that the wall is either for security or for robbing the Palestinians.” – http://pacificaforum.org/mass/3

There is no connection between September 11th and the apartheid wall. The routine association of the two, endlessly repeated on this site, is a classic example of post hoc ergo propter hoc. It was Andrew Mathis who first pointed this out – http://tinyurl.com/9vujvlc

But… he’s officially a ‘Zionist’. In the Stalinist style of reasoning common on this site, this invalidates his use of formal logic.

I give Chomsky a hard time when he makes these errors, because he really understands logic – it’s how he worked out that language is innate. I guess I should be more tolerant on this site, and avoid references to ‘monkeys’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9504492/Yasser-Arafat-murder-investigation-launched.html

Israel claims Eichmann did it.

Swiss also say Israelis killed Arafat:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/swiss-institute-finds-polonium-arafats-effects-223816830.html

ADL say Swiss stole billions more than previously thought from Ann Frank, et al. New lawsuits to be announced.

but i don’t want to appear smug. i like the fact that you are inclusive enough to see your hi-tech view and Jay’s more Gandhian perspective as just two ends of a rather long spectrum of possibilities – just as all wavelengths correspond to light, even though most of that ‘light’ is invisible to us , so it must be that all views of 911 are equally true (or untrue) even though most of them are immune to the laws of evidentiality and the laws of physics.

as you say so aptly, it is the emotion that matters. with mythopoeic events, logic and the hypothetico-deductive method are not merely irrelevant but positively misleading – just as it would be wrong to interpret the sacrament of the eucharist via a forensic study of bread and wine. the chemical composition is irrelevant, though the modern materialistic mind-set makes this truth difficult for people to see any more.

i will risk irritating readers with one more footnote. Dr Eugene Nagelstein, of the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s Department of Historical Epistemology has recently come up with a concept of of Transtemporal Validation. i won’t digress to try and explain it here, but applied to 911 it would imply that Jay’s Boxcutter version is relatively more valid than a hi-tech one, because if we conceive of the event as occurring at a random moment of historical time, it is simply more probable, in the sense of the statistical thermodynamics of the historical process.

say, for example, that 911 had occurred in the year 1066, and been used as a pretext for the Norman invasion of England. it would be absurd to claim that the twin towers had been brought down by nanothermite or mini-nukes, because at that epoch these technologies simply did not exist!!!

on the other hand, even at that early epoch, boxcutters, or a kind of dagger with similar dimensions, could easily have been the crime weapon of choice with which to hijack the jets and smash them into the twin towers.

likewise there could have been no involvement of Israel, since at that time Eretz Israel was a mere twinkle in the eye of Maimonedes’ great-great-great-grandmother, and most Ashkenazim had not yet migrated out of the Khazarian heartlands. thus Jay’s Boxcutter is much more likely, by the anthropic principle.

i feel i have not explained this very well, but i cannot write down the relevant quantum-theoretical equations using the wordpress software.

as Dr Nagelstein wittily remarked: the Truth is a very big tent, but the toilets remain outside. at the SPLC, incidentally – for reasons of ritual purity rather than mere hygiene – they have four types of toilet, rather than the more usual two, labelled, respectively L, G, PN and OG. the meaning of these mysterious kabbalistic letters are revealed in a missing verse* of the Basbylonian Talmud: ladies, gents, poor niggas, and other goyim, respectively.

*see Prof Yuri Bloch’s recent book the suppressed satanic verses of the southern poverty edition of the babylonian talmud Adelson Press, Las Vegas.

although i am no psychologist may i timidly cite Jay’s phrase:

He reminds himself that the Devil has the best arguments.

as another piece of evidence, albeit ambiguous, for your hypothesis that Jay is reaching out towards the truth on this one. if so i salute his courage. we all have had to break through the barrier of powerful but unsupported assumptions about the nature of political reality. your BBC (boxcutter bois conspiracy) is appealing precisely because it is just what, in an ideal world, we would all have liked to have believed, just as that other, darker BBC (the brutish broadcasting conspiracy) would like us to believe that Israel is a ‘nice’ country, not a rogue state whose very foundations were laid by blackmail, bribery, terror and gangsterism.