Five Dancing Israelis on 9/11
Of the 90 or so detained Israelis there was a group of five Israelis, now widely known as the “dancing Israelis“, who were spotted in multiple locations filming, and celebrating the attacks.
The men were detained by NYPD. The police and FBI field agents became very suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports.
Police also told the Bergen Record, that bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives. (#)
Their names were: (according to record)
Sivan and Paul Kurzberg
Yaron Schmuel
Oded Ellner
Omer Marmari
“We are not your problem”?
According to ABC News 20/20, after the group of Israelis were detained, the driver of the van - Sivan Kurzberg - told the officers:
“We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.”
They later appeared on an Israeli talk show and claimed to be “documenting the event”.
Witnesses reported they were set up PRIOR to the first plane strike, and were seen congratulating one another afterward. The five jubilant Israelis were also seen photographing one another.
The FBI seized and developed their photos, one of which shows Sivan Kurzberg flicking a cigarette lighter in front of the smoldering ruins in an apparently celebratory gesture.
This has been attempted to be memory holed, but :
February 2006 Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (MTI) report entitled: “Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks”.
The relevant quote is as follows:
“There were continuing moments of alarm. A panel truck with a painting of a plane flying into the World Trade Center was stopped near the temporary command post. It proved to be rented to a group of ethnic Middle Eastern people who did not speak English. Fearing that it might be a truck bomb, the NYPD immediately evacuated the area, called out the bomb squad, and detained the occupants until a thorough search was made. The vehicle was found to be an innocent delivery truck.”
As you can see the cover-up of the incident clearly ensues in this document.
Apparently the people who wrote this didn’t find it odd that a delivery truck rented to “ethnic middle easterners” was painted up with a mural depicting the very events of the day! The idiocy of their conclusion that this van was an “innocent delivery truck” is beyond words. Also notice no mention of it exploding as the police transmission confirms.
The “ethnic middle easterners” referenced in this quote were certainly not Arabic individuals as there is not a single mention of this incident in the 9/11 commission report. If they were Arabs there would be no reason to cover this up.
The fact that this incident was covered up is a strong indication that these “ethnic middle easterners” were in fact Israelis."