{"id":221648,"date":"2026-05-06T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221648\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:05:07","slug":"naftali-bennett-9-11-caused-by-unmanaged-radical-islam-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221648\/","title":{"rendered":"Naftali Bennett: 9\/11 caused by unmanaged radical Islam in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett<\/a> told the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) last week that 9\/11 was caused by the international community\u2019s failure to consider radical Islamism in the Middle East a global issue.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Israeli branch of the TBN, the world’s largest Christian television network, Bennett spoke about being in Manhattan during 9\/11<\/a>, saying, \u201cI saw those buildings on fire. That\u2019s what happens when you say, \u2018The Middle East isn\u2019t our problem, we don\u2019t care.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The former prime minister argued that if a nuclear deal with Iran is not reached, it will have impacts globally, not just within the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the current Israeli-US conflict with Iran<\/a>, he added, \u201cThe radical Islamists will come to the Big Satan, to Manhattan, to California, to America, but with nuclear ballistic missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since October 7<\/a>, 2023, Iran has been linked to countless terror plots across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"OppositionOpposition Leader and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speak during a press conference announcing a joint list named \u201cTogether\u201d ahead of upcoming elections, to be led by Bennett, in Herzliya, central Israel, April 26, 2026. (credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n

Just months before the terror attack on Hanukkah in Bondi Beach, Australia, the country\u2019s Iranian ambassador was given seven days to leave after intelligence services linked Iran to arson attacks on Jewish communities across Australia.<\/p>\n

In April, Iranian intelligence services and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives were linked to low-level \u201chybrid warfare\u201d attacks throughout Europe and the UK, according to police documents.<\/p>\n

Wave began shortly after start of war<\/p>\n

The first wave of attacks was reportedly launched in early March, shortly after the US and Israel began strikes on Iran, targeting Jewish community sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, and US banks.<\/p>\n

A second wave appears to be focused on the UK, with attempted arson attacks against synagogues and Iranian opposition media, and last week, a stabbing attack on two Jewish men in Golders Green, London.<\/p>\n

The attacks across Europe and the UK have been claimed by the Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand (HAYI), a pro-Iranian Islamist group believed by experts to be a front group for the IRGC.<\/p>\n

In July 2024, the US Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, warned that Iranian regime actors were engaging in influence campaigns to stoke and fund anti-Israel protests in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have observed actors tied to Iran\u2019s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters,\u201d said Haines.<\/p>\n

One month earlier, Iran\u2019s then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote a dramatic letter to American university students, praising their \u201cdefense of the Palestinian people,\u201d and framing their actions as part of a broader \u201cResistance Front\u201d against “Zionist oppression.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Naftali Bennett told the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) last week that 9\/11 was caused by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5301,14670,6211,75,84,83,87310,9,24,63,65386,15357],"class_list":["post-221648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-9-11","tag-iran","tag-islam","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-radicalization","tag-the-october-7-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}