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Law Abiding Citizens first volume.
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ā€˜Buying quiet’: Inside the Israeli plan that propped up Hamas​

Dec. 10, 2023

By MARK MAZZETTI and Ronen Bergman
The New York Times

TEL AVIV, Israel — 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 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?

Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy so Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.

Allowing the payments — billions of dollars over roughly a decade — was a gamble by Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct. 7 attacks, and keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting.

The Qatari payments, while ostensibly a secret, have been widely known and discussed in the Israeli news media for years. Netanyahu’s critics disparage them as part of a strategy of ā€œbuying quiet,ā€ and the policy is in the middle of a ruthless reassessment following the attacks. Netanyahu has lashed back at that criticism, calling the suggestion that he tried to empower Hamas ā€œridiculous.ā€

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Pulling out of DC, oh, but keep the WNBA



 
Pulling out of DC, oh, but keep the WNBA



Bowser thinks sports teams should fund her socialist plans for DC. She will not admit her city is unsafe so people move.
 
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