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#qatargate

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Legendarily shady crypto bro Brock Pierce, the co-founder of #Tether w/deep ties to Steve Bannon, the #Netanyahu family, and one of America's most infamous pedophile rings (DEN), is currently in #Romania meeting with that country's future president Victor Ponta to spread the gospel of crypto.

Ponta himself has apparently long been dogged by an aura of corruption and underworld connections, which would be appropriate for someone taking meetings with Brock Pierce.

More recently there's been suggestions Brock Pierce is a player in #Qatargate. If you're unfamiliar with the man's sordid backstory I covered most of it here: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eri

I’ve been talking about the connections between the #Netanyahu family and some of the sketchiest characters in the crypto industry (esp. #Tether co-founder #BrockPierce) for years so I was glad to see #UdiLevy, the former head of #Mossad's economic unit #Tzalsel, starting to ask the same questions of #Qatargate.

Among other things Netanyahu's niece is a part owner of #Bancor, a defi lending platform that imploded in 2022 in hilarious fashion.

Re: #AryehDeri, the man who triggered the mass protests in Israel in 2023, Deri was seen at the groundbreaking for #BrixSoftware, major vendor for #CrossRiverBank, the single largest purveyor of covid relief fraud in the US. CRB received massive investment from #MarcAndreessen's #a16z, both before and after a massive “investment” from a Malaysian police chief who somehow had hundreds of millions of dollars to invest after he “investigated” the #1MDB fraud.

more: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eri

#Qatar#uspol#israel
The protests in #Jerusalem tend to mention Qatari money and #Qatargate . The allegations you see in the protests are that #Netanyahu works for #Qatar. Those are populist and oversimplistic (and wrong) allegations, but two of Netanyahu's aids were arrested today and he was investigated in the police regarding this issue. So what is it?

Netanyahu is known for not caring about hiring people with lax morality (e.g.: Natan Eshel) and even criminal behavior (e.g.: Ari Harow). The crux of this affair is that some of his closest aids also ran a side gig, and in their side gig (among other jobs) did some PR work for Qatar. A country Netanyahu himself occasionally considered an enemy.

And then we get the separate issue of Eli Feldstein. He was investigated on a different affair. And then it turned out that he could not get a government job because he failed to pass a security clearance. Netanyahu still wanted to hire him. So he looked for someone else to pay his salary. And that someone ended up being a lobbyist for Qatar in the US government.

There is also another document mentioned, that is very likely faked: I'm not going to elaborate on them, but they were republished by Memri after being published by some dodgy French sources.

So far the main issue for Netanyahu is potential financial misconduct (which could potentially amount to allegations of bribe). The real problem is that Netanyahu not only did not help the investigations: he immediately tried to fire the head of the secret service (who was running it, because the police are a bit lax nowadays). So basically he behaves as if he has something to hide.

#Israel

"Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Saturday that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Shin Bet security agency chief Ronen Bar only opened an investigation into his senior aides’ financial ties with Qatar in order to prevent the government’s firing of Bar.

The premier’s assertion appeared to be based on little evidence and contradicted the known sequence of events, as Netanyahu only initiated the process to dismiss Bar after the investigation into Qatar had already been launched."

#Qatargate

timesofisrael.com/contradictin

Let's discuss the long game of the #psychopath that is #Netenyahu.

He always wanted #Hamas. He promoted the election and funding of Hamas many years ago. Now there's even more confirmation with #Qatargate.

The long game was that he wanted a boogie man in the #Palestinian #government, in order to have a justifiable target on the #international stage.

In effect his plan was and still is to destroy #Palestine, and delegitimizing the Palestinian government was a piece on his chess board.

"Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no longer has the moral authority to send troops into battle and must resign, in the wake of new allegations that the salary of one of his top aides was paid by Qatar.

Bennett argued that knowingly accepting such funds constituted “treason,” after the Kan public broadcaster aired recordings of an Israeli businessman based in the Gulf saying he had transferred money from a Qatar-employed US lobbyist to Eli Feldstein, while the latter was working as Netanyahu’s spokesman."

#Qatargate

timesofisrael.com/bennett-pm-m

🌐 ■ Netanyahu quiere la cabeza del jefe del servicio de inteligencia interior por tratar de investigarle ■ El Shin Bet ha abierto una investigación sobre los presuntos vínculos (entre ellos financieros) de tres asesores y portavoces del primer ministro con Qatar.
huffingtonpost.es/global/netan