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Monday, July 1, 2024
Are “Qatari Documents” of $50 Million To Netanyahu Forgeries?

Are “Qatari Documents” of $50 Million To Netanyahu Forgeries?
Dr. Aaron Lerner 1 July 2024

Today MEMRI released an English version of their report:
More Qatari Documents Regarding Funds From Qatar To Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu July 1, 2024 By Yigal Carmon https://www.memri.org/reports/more-qatari-documents-regarding-funds-qatar-israeli-prime-minister-binyamin-netanyahu

Here is some background regarding MEMRI’s source:

“Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy.

She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence operatives recruited to help the United Arab Emirates engage in surveillance of other governments, militants and human rights activists critical of the monarchy.”
Inside The UAE’s Secret Hacking Team Of American Mercenaries
By Christopher Bing + Joel Schectman Reuters
Filed Jan. 30, 2019 Washington
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven/index.html

Dear Reader,
The “Qatari documents” translated and featured in the MEMRI report are from Project Raven.

If you think it’s impossible that part of Project Raven involved forging documents which would look consistent with the real top secret documents the former U.S. intelligence operatives found then I have a special 50% discount for today only for a bridge in Brooklyn.

1. According to one “document” which MEMRI presents, the then Qatari Prime Minister instructed the then Minister of Economy and Finance, in a top secret classified letter, to send a bank transfer of 50 million dollars to World Vision in Jordan which was intended for Binyamin Netanyahu.

2. According to another “document”, the bank in Jordan refused to accept a check to the order of World Vision in the amount of 50 million dollars, so instead 50 million dollars were transferred to Netanyahu through a representative of the Qatari state security apparatus,
Ok. So you are still considering that bridge in Brooklyn?

1. What are the odds that there happens to be a real publicly documented transfer of exactly the same amount of 50 million dollars to the same World Vision which World Vision passed on to Hamas?

That real $50 million to Hamas through World Vision would certainly provide a convenient paper trail to serve as a model for forging a “document” of $50 million via the same path to Netanyahu.

2. Why did this story emerge so long after Project Raven?

3. Whose interests does the story serve? In every camp in Israel and abroad there is no shortage of elements who are convinced that it is better for a different leader to hold the helm in Israel today.

Dear Reader,
Maybe you think that it is best to have the Israel Police sort this all out.⁠

Why not an investigation by Israel Police?

“Hello UAE Prime Minister’s Office, this is Israel Police Inspector Cohen. Can you confirm these documents that the UAE gave Netanyahu $50 million?”
“Click”

“Hello Qatar's State Security Service. This is Israel Police Inspector Cohen. Did your organization deliver $50 million to Netanyahu?”
“Click”

“Hello World Vision. This is Israel Police Inspector Cohen. Was your organization supposed to forward $50 million to Netanyahu?”
“Click”.

Technical note:
There are so many groups and governments who have been scouring the world for violations of the law to bring down Netanyahu one would expect that if $50 million had actually been handed over to Netanyahu over a decade ago that someone would have come up with some solid evidence which could stand up in court.

No one has.

We aren’t talking about Netanyahu’s expensive penchant for cigars or gifts of jewelry to his wife.

This is $50 million.

What’s Netanyahu to do in response to these claims?

As we say in Hebrew: How can he prove he doesn’t have a sister?

I have a suggestion:

We are in the middle of a challenging war in Gaza and facing a challenge from Hezbollah magnitudes greater. And to make matters even worse we have Iran setting up to have the material to make a collection of nukes.

Have ideas and recommendations for the decision makers for these pressing matters? Make them known and lobby hard for their implementation.

Let’s leave diversions like the “Qatari Documents” for another time.
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