There is an elephant in the room of the 9/11 Truth Movement. A few can honestly say they can’t see the elephant. A larger number can clearly see it, but have somehow convinced themselves it is really a piano. Yet the elephant remains. It is big. It is menacing. No one really knows what to do about it. But if we do not deal with the elephant, all our efforts for 9/11 truth may be for naught. Our movement will lose credibility, and will drift into the kind of obsolescence and irrelevance now associated with the theories of JFK’s assassination.

The elephant in the bedroom of the 9/11 Truth Movement is the obvious connection of the attacks with the state of Israel and its fanatical supporters within the United States government, military, and media. A sampling of some of the evidence:

• The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that the Israeli message service ODIGO broadcast a warning to Jewish employees of the Trade Center on the morning of the attacks.

• The company in charge of security at all the involved airports was an Israeli company called International Consultants for Targeted Security. Its president is Menachem Atzmon.

• The owner of the Trade Center buildings was Larry Silverstein, who is reported to have close relationships with leading Likud party Israelis such as Benjamin Netanyahu.

• Mohammed Atta and some of the other Arab patsies were closely followed closely (managed?) by numerous Mossad agents in the months before September 11, 2001.

We could go on with such examples, but the purpose of this essay is to suggest what we should do with this overwhelming evidence now that we have it. I watched with much frustration Jim Fetzer’s appearance on Hannity & Colmes last week, including the following exchange:

Alan Colmes: “I want our audience to understand exactly what you believe... you think it was a controlled demolition, it was not al-Qaeda, it was not people from abroad who want to kill us... it was Dick Cheney in a bunker directing an attack on the United States?”

Jim Fetzer: “Well, there are massive motives here..."

Fetzer went on to list as motives the missing trillions from the Pentagon, Silverstein’s insurance money, something about Halliburton... in other words, everything in the world except the most obvious motive of all: the usefulness of 9/11 in the furthering of the Neocon/Likud agenda of an Israeli empire in the Middle East based on their control of oil, and the transformation of America into a Bolshevist police state. Just think how much more compelling Fetzer’s arguments could have been if he would have named the perpetrator with the means, the motive, and a well-documented history of similar criminal activity in the past.

I believe this exchange represents a fork in the road for the future of the movement. In the future, we will be judged less on what we know than on what we have the courage to say. Do we have the courage to grapple with the elephant? This is what Alan Colmes and his viewers really want to know about us; for it is probably true in our society that the majority would rather align themselves with a criminal gang who bravely defend their lies, than with a group of timid truthseekers who are unwilling to follow their own evidence to its logical conclusion.

With this sobering reality in mind, I say to those unwilling to see the elephant that your work in the 9/11 Truth Movement is done. You may as well move on. Go back to playing Half-Life or reading spy novels or whatever you were doing before you started looking at 9/11. If you’re Jim Fetzer or David Ray Griffin, go back to your careers as left-wing America bashers– before you taint the rest of the movement with your absurd insinuations that “we did this to ourselves.”

For those, however, who decide to stay and deal with the elephant, I have heartening news. There is no need for any anti-semitism or for an ethnic confrontation of any kind. There is no need for pogroms or expulsions or a war with nuclear-armed Israel. It turns out that the elephant can be tamed if enough of us simply have the courage to call it what it is. A grass-roots movement to curb the power of Israel over our government could begin simply by demanding an end to the $3 billion subsidy U.S. taxpayers must send to Israel every year. On another level, we as a society must start treating the Jews as just another group, capable of both good and evil just like any other group.

In his 2005 book Galilee Flowers, the Israeli anti-Zionist writer Israel Shamir writes this about the current unbalanced relationship between America and the Jews:

“The fate of the Americans is not better. Proud to the point of arrogance, they assumed the White Man’s Destiny will lead them from conquest to conquest. They took over the great landmass of North America, forcibly opened the doors of Japan, and won two world wars, just to find themselves strangers in their own house. Now, instead of their own history, they study the Holocaust; instead of promoting their own interest, they fight mercenary wars for Israel. They work harder and harder to supply the goods to their new elite. They judge the world by one criterion, ‘whether it is good for Jews.’” [p. 333]

This is the state of spiritual sickness that existed in America on the eve of 9/11, and it persists today. As long as this sickness persists, the coverup will continue unabated and the truth behind 9/11 will remain hidden. When we can finally overcome this unbalanced relationship and view our history, and the history of the Jews, in a more realistic manner, the real truth of 9/11 will finally tumble out for all to see, and we will be able to move toward a future in which another 9/11 is not a possibility.

-Andy Kornkven