OMG! Bin Laden was right! Speaking truth to power!
The Guardian has removed Osama Bin Laden's post 9/11 letter from its website after it went viral:
The late Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s famous “Letter to America,” released one year after the September 11, 2001 attacks, has gone viral on the social media platform TikTok, with thousands of Western users expressing sympathy with the ideas expressed by one of the worst mass murderers of the 21st century.
“In reading the letter, I could only think of this tweet that I saw the other day,” one user declared, quoting a post on X which appeared to justify the October 7 attack on Israel. “Under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is branded as terrorist because the only acceptable violence is violence by the occupier.”…
"Why are we fighting and opposing you,” Bin Laden asked in the letter, which attempted to justify the 9/11 attacks. "Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.”
"You attacked us in Palestine,” he stated, declaring that “the creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals,” adding that Israel’s very existence was "a crime which must be erased” and that “each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.”
"The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed,” he continued, railing against how western governments had allegedly "surrendered to the Jews.”
"It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of antisemitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history,” he wrote.
But…but…that's just what Hamas are saying! – and they're freedom fighters, right? – against settler colonialism?
Osama Bin Laden becoming Gen Z's Noam Chomsky wasn't something I saw coming.
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) November 16, 2023
Mick Hartley 
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