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Now it turns out Netanyahu was Hamas' biggest funder for years, giving Qatar the ok to deliver suitcases full of millions in cash for years, under Israeli escort.
New York Times "‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas"
"Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue?
Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.
Even as the Israeli military obtained battle plans for a Hamas invasion and analysts observed significant terrorism exercises just over the border in Gaza, the payments continued. For years, Israeli intelligence officers even escorted a Qatari official into Gaza, where he doled out money from suitcases filled with millions of dollars.
The money from Qatar had humanitarian goals like paying government salaries in Gaza and buying fuel to keep a power plant running. But Israeli intelligence officials now believe that the money had a role in the success of the Oct. 7 attacks, if only because the donations allowed Hamas to divert some of its own budget toward military operations."
Now Netanayuhu calls anyone who criticizes him a "Hamas supporter" while he is the biggest Hamas supporter of all, and not just moral support but cold hard cash that buys bullets that kill Jews. When do Jews realize that Netanyahu is not just a supporter of Hamas. He IS Hamas. And anyone who thinks a few hundred Hamas could have got anywhere close to Israel without a major stand-down is nuts. A couple of Apache gunships's 30mm cannons and a dozen .50 cal. on the ground would have made terrorist burger out of most of them in minutes, had they seen them in time, before they were well over the wire.
New York Times "‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas"
"Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue?
Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.
Even as the Israeli military obtained battle plans for a Hamas invasion and analysts observed significant terrorism exercises just over the border in Gaza, the payments continued. For years, Israeli intelligence officers even escorted a Qatari official into Gaza, where he doled out money from suitcases filled with millions of dollars.
The money from Qatar had humanitarian goals like paying government salaries in Gaza and buying fuel to keep a power plant running. But Israeli intelligence officials now believe that the money had a role in the success of the Oct. 7 attacks, if only because the donations allowed Hamas to divert some of its own budget toward military operations."
Now Netanayuhu calls anyone who criticizes him a "Hamas supporter" while he is the biggest Hamas supporter of all, and not just moral support but cold hard cash that buys bullets that kill Jews. When do Jews realize that Netanyahu is not just a supporter of Hamas. He IS Hamas. And anyone who thinks a few hundred Hamas could have got anywhere close to Israel without a major stand-down is nuts. A couple of Apache gunships's 30mm cannons and a dozen .50 cal. on the ground would have made terrorist burger out of most of them in minutes, had they seen them in time, before they were well over the wire.
