An election Qatargate...
The huge Arab jihadi voter turnout might be directly linked to illegal foreign influence. For the past few years, Israelis were bombarded with “Qatargate” allegations of Qatari connections surrounding Netanyahu, portrayed as an enormous scandal that could finally help bring him down. Yet at the very same time, Gadi Eizenkot, the political Left and the mainstream media were relentlessly pressuring Netanyahu to accept the Qatar-mediated hostage deal they demanded, even when it meant ending the war before Hamas was destroyed and risking leaving Hamas in power in Gaza. Think about the irony. The political left accused Netanyahu’s people of “working for Qatar,” while politically they were doing Qatar’s work for it: pressuring Israel to accept an outcome that would have served Qatar’s interests at the expense of Israel’s, ending the war with its Hamas ally still ruling Gaza. Netanyahu resisted that pressure because Israel had a war to win. And now, after years of “Qatargate,” w...