"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians

Israel went from inventing the networking tools of the “flat world” to selling fences to an apartheid planet

Israel now sends $1.2 billion in “defense” products to the United States

2006 Israel exported $3.4 billion in defense products

Before 9/11 homeland security barely existed as an industry

key products and services are high-tech fences, unmanned drones, biometric IDs, video and audio surveillance gear, air passenger profiling and prisoner interrogation systems – precisely the tools and technologies Israel has used to lock-in the occupied territ