Several aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are accused of taking money from Qatar in return for portraying that regime positively and downplaying Egypt’s role as a mediator in hostage talks, a judge said Tuesday.
The latest controversy to roil Israeli politics involves a complicated intra-Arab rivalry, fought out on the terrain of Israeli and American politics, with Israeli officials and a Jewish American lobbying firm as unlikely intermediaries.
The “Qatargate” affair has seen several aides to Netanyahu arrested and questioned, and has even pulled in members of the media and the business world, though Netanyahu himself is not considered a suspect in the investigation.
The central allegation is that Qatar sent money to certain political aides in the Prime Minister’s office,
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