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Al-Manar wrote that "Arab diplomatic sources revealed to the Jordanian al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General Security apparatus, the Shabak".
It is unclear whether al-Watan (a minor Jordanian newspaper with no website) made these claims, and who (if anyone) the alleged "Arab diplomatic sources" were. Nor is there any independent confirmation of this claim, which is generally regarded as highly implausible.
Al-Manar claimed that
A pro-Israel rally, led by the United Jewish Communities and expected to include 50,000 people, had been planned for September 23, 2001, and Ariel Sharon had been going to speak there[10]. It was canceled on September 12[11]. However, according to The Forward, Sharon was still scheduled to speak there at that point[12].
There is an Israeli reporter named Aharon Barnea, of Israel's Channel 2 News, whose wife Amalia works for Yediot Aharonot[13]; it has been speculated that "Aharon Bernie" arose as a misspelling of this name.[14]
This claim formed part of the Al-Manar report mentioned above, which claimed that:
This claim was correct: Yossi Melman did indeed make a report to that effect in Haaretz on September 17, 2001[15], still available from Haaretz' site, and did use the precise words "puzzling behavior" and "what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery." It has been followed up on by several mainstream Western media groups. On June 21, 2002, ABC published a report that five Israelis, seen filming the events of September 11 in New York and looking "happy", were subsequently arrested, claiming on The Forward's authority that the "FBI concluded that two of the men were Israeli intelligence operatives" but had no advance knowledge of 9/11.
The claim was recently revived by the Scotland-based Sunday Herald's article: Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 (Nov 2, 2003). Several other sources are listed at the Sunday Herald's website.
Some sources, such as The Forward (02/03/15), interpret these five as a Mossad surveillance operation conducted not against the US but against "radical Islamic networks suspected of links to Middle East terrorism."
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