I never said they didn't have prior knowledge of an impending attack. I think that's the most likely scenario. Google operation able danger.
I'm not familiar with that particular operation, but this is essentially what I've always thought. Well-documented evidence shows that the Bush Administration was briefed numerous times by the security establishment on the threat posed domestically and internationally to American assets/interests by al-Qaeda. Time and again, they chose to ignore the warnings, only meeting as a cabinet to discuss the threat in earnest a week before 9-11. Clearly, the administration did not do what it could to prevent the attack.
That being said, it is unreasonable and highly unlikely that the administration knew of this specific attack or even that it (or other shadowy American figures) were involved in the attack. I think it is reasonable and, given the Bush Administration and its apparent values, even highly possible, that they knew about an impending terror attack but did nothing to stop it so that it would allow them a lot of lead way, domestically and globally, to achieve certain aims they wanted accomplished. I do not, however, believe for one second that, even if they knew of an impending 9-11 scale attack, that they allowed it to happen. I don't think a 9-11 scale attack was needed to accomplish such goals. A Paris-scale attack would have sufficed. Why waste so many of your assets in the WTC and in global trade if this is some vast, evil neo-liberal conspiracy? Doesn't make sense.
As for the Israel conspiracies, I can't speak to that, but I find it highly unlikely. In life, as in philosophy, typically the simplest explanation that still makes sense, given probability of physical phenomena, is the answer. What's the simplest explanation: that a well-organized, well-funded Islamic terror organization, like al-Qaeda, was able to pull off a large scale attack, or that Mossad and the global Zionist cabal was able to do it without ever being found out, before or after? Personally, I think the former is the simplest.