EFFORTPOST More like Netan-yahoo amirite? Likud leader struggles to distract from Qatari bribery scandal

It turns out that Netanyahu's underlings had more motives for supporting Hamas' rise to power in Gaza than just weakening Fatah. Two of his top aides have been arrested for getting bribed by Qatar. This is a bit of a problem as there's an informal but close alliance among various powers related to the Muslim Brotherhood:

• the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood itself

• Hamas

• Qatar

• Turkey

• the Tripoli-based faction in Libya

At the same time, he's been continuing his efforts to deflect blame for his own responsibility for October 7 onto the glowies. I've covered his attempts to blame Unit 8200 (their version of the NSA) three times:

• one

• two

• three

Of course the glowies can't just come out and defend themselves in public so they're a perfect target, but enough evidence has come out to pretty well confirm my suspicions. The Netanyahu regime had good enough intelligence to have prevented October 7 if they had been cautious, but decided instead to pull their troops away from Gaza and send them into the West Bank to harass Fatah and the local civilian population. Allowing Qatar to bring in suitcases full of cash to Gaza to give to Hamas wasn't such a great idea in retrospect either. As I've been saying all this time, this was not a failure of intelligence. It was a failure of strategy.

Ronen Bar

Now he's blaming Shin Bet, the internal security service responsible for Israel and Palestine. (If you're American, think of the FBI except they don't do ordinary law enforcement.) Lately he's been in a political struggle trying to fire its head (Ronen Bar) and the Attorney General. Bar especially pissed him off by refusing to intervene on his behalf and stop his corruption trials, just like when Nixon asked the CIA to do the same for him in Watergate. Unfortunately for him, in Israel that's much more complicated and drawn out than just having Laura Loomer show up at your door with a list of people she doesn't like. After 3 decades of political maneuvering he seems to finally be cornered. The best excuse he can come up with now is "No, it wasn't my guys who got bribed by Qatar... Uhhh.... It was actually this one guy Ronen Bar who I don't like who got bribed by Qatar. Oh and he's responsible for October 7 too."

Which one do you think is telling the truth? Netanyahu or literally anybody else on Earth?

I wouldn't trust everything that the Jerusalem Post writes about this story tho. Is it because I don't trust Jews? Or I don't trust Zionists? No. It's because (you can't make this shit up ) its editor-in-chief was bribed by Qatar to write propaganda for them!

One Israeli journ*list questioned in the case is Zvika Klein, the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, an English-language daily. According to a report this week in the Post, Klein visited Qatar at the invitation of its government last year and subsequently wrote a series of articles about his impressions, one of which laid out Qatar's case against Israeli claims that it backs the militant group.

Netanyahu's allegations were pretty r-slurred and easily refuted. He said that the Bar had been let into the skybox during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. What he failed to mention is that this wasn't during a game. He was there on official business organizing security for the Israelis attending and needed to meet with Qatari officials who happened to be in the skybox between games. This is such pathetic grasping at straws that I almost feel sorry for the guy.

No Tay Tay! What are you doing up there? Isn't this bribery?

Of course this being Netanyahu there has to be an American angle to it. The money was laundered through organized crime lobbying groups in the USA. One of the secrets to his political survival is that he's very familiar with both countries but doesn't care about either one so he's really good at pitting them against each other. His luck may have run out now though. The courts are cockblocking him from firing Bar. He's been doing job interviews for a replacement anyway, even picking one only to drop him a few hours later because apparently the guy actually prefers to live in a democracy.

Admiral Eli Sharvit - He got cockblocked out of his job before he even got to work. Even the Mooch lasted longer.

In other news, just as these scandals are building up, the IDF suddenly finds it needs to kill a bunch more people in Gaza and Lebanon. Poor guy. Every time he's busy dealing with a domestic corruption scandal those darn Arabs have to distract everyone by getting in the way of his bombs.

They've even got the Maronite Patriarch saying it's not the right time to disarm Hezbollah yet. How do you frick up the peace this bad?