Netanyahu y el 11-S

Binyamín Netanyahu, en la noche del 11 de septiembre de 2001:

Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, ''It's very good.'' Then he edited himself: ''Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.'' He predicted that the attack would ''strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we've experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.''

Los políticos deben ser directos y espontáneos, dicen. A veces es más conveniente no enseñar todas las cartas. Por otro lado, Netanyahu no es el tipo de político que se corta a la hora de dar órdenes a Washington. Es un caso único entre los aliados de EEUU.

--Counting the cost of the 9/11 wars. Jason Burke, agosto 2011.