The whole plan is stated to create a lightning rod in the middle east to draw terrorists towards american soldiers and away from Israel.
Perhaps israel lobby in Washington disagreed with the publicly stated opinion of Israel (which may have only happened to create plausible deniability).
We know america doesn't benefit from causing blowback like 9 11. Who benefits? I think the fact Netanyahu and mossad agents celebrating on 9 11, tell you who benefits
This remark strikes me as pretty ignorant of history and geopolitics.
Before the Holocaust, Zionism was mostly a dirty word and deeply unpopular among American Jews but just as the scale of the German and Russian genocides became apparent in 1945, Israel suddenly seemed like a popular solution to all parties.
The millions of surviving Jews in Europe and Russia wanted to come to the US as the first choice to join the largest surviving Jewish population in the world but even after the war, 77% of Americans polled opposed increasing the immigration limits on Europe and wanted no more than about 10,000 Jewish immigrant per year. UK citizens were similarly unwelcoming and at the time, a new Israeli state was seen viewed like a Sioux reservation, a patch of unwanted land in which to herd an unwanted population. Since Western apartheid neatly coincided with the Jewish sense of destiny, Zionism suddenly became popular. The USSR was the first state to recognize Israel, followed by Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland. They weren't celebrating Jewish destiny, they were exiling unwanted peoples to a far and desert land.
The US is 33 times the population and 53 times the economy of Israel. The US's annual defense budget is 37 times that of Israel's (and even then the US comps about 40% of Israel's defense bill). Israel serves as the US's favorite aircraft carrier and submarine in the Middle East, extending the American eyes and ears and airpower that made oil cheap and plentiful for a superpower addicted to the stuff. Israel was created because the US defied the UN (to the everlasting deficit of that organization) and ever since America is the only foreign nation who's opinion really counts in Israel. These facts were not lost on Osama bin-Laden when listing the grievances he thought justified 9-11.
"The expansion of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its price, and pay for it heavily.....reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines."
bin-Laden correctly credited the US for US military interventions against Muslims and not Israel but even subtracting Israel from the equation, al-Qaeda still had many more rationalizations for attack. Even so, many experts note that bin-Laden never showed much interest in Palestine and the relationship between al-Qaeda and Hamas was always antagonistic. Long before 9-11, Palestinians considered bin Laden just another in a long list of Arab leaders looking to exploit the name of Palestine but ignore that people's plight.
You state that the US is in the Middle East because of Israel's plan to deflect terrorism away from their borders but the history never supports that conclusion. For example, in 2003 the year the US re-invaded Iraq, Israel suffered 26 realized terrorist attacks (many more foiled) resulting in 142 deaths while the US survived 7 bombings in Iraq, three in Afghanistan with no American casualties (18 Italian soldiers were killed in one attack).
Historically, the US has done a lot more to save Muslims from the wrath of Israel than the other way around. The US works to protect Palestinians from Israeli incursions far more often than to protect Israel. Kissinger strongly intervened to keep Israel from destroying Egypt's Third Army (100,000 soldiers) trapped on the wrong side of the Red Sea at the end of the Yom Kippur War and Egypt's gratitude made the peace of Camp David possible. Kennedy opposed an Israeli nuclear program so vehemently that he threatened air strikes and it was only Kennedy's assassination that really made it possible to develop the bomb.
Many experts view Netanyahu as another likely pawn of Putin's, like Trump. In his youth, Jared Kushner used to have to give up his bed when Netanyahu was in town, their relationship was so close and Ivanka's marriage to Netanyahu's favorite American family is easily interpreted as an alliance between two of Russia's favorite politicians.
I consider Israel's treatment of Palestinians no better than the racist apartheids in the US or South Africa or in the case of Gaza, a kind of slow-motion ghetto genocide. I have long encouraged a non-violent opposition to Israeli policy along the lines of Mandela or MLK or Gandhi and consider Palestinian reliance on terrorist tactics the primary obstacle to liberation and peace.
Palestinians and Israelis share a common ancestry from ten thousand years ago and ultimately are more alike one another than either is like any other people. Palestinians are not Arabs- they are the Philistines that fought David and the Sea Peoples that fought Ramses II. They are the Phoenicians from which we derive our alphabet. They built the Palace of Minos on Crete, founded Carthage, and conquered the Spanish coast. Hannibal Barca was a Palestinian. Alongside those Palestinians, the Israelis share a most incredible story of endurance, survival, and relevance that traces back to the settlement of Jericho and the advent of Civilization itself.