Likud lawmaker Moshe Saada: ‘If I knew my advisor was working for Qatar, I would fire him’
Former deputy head of the Police Internal Investigations Department and Likud Knesset member Moshe Saada said that if he had known that one of his advisors was working for Qatar, he would have fired him immediately.
In an interview on Channel 12’s “Meet the Press” program, Saada contradicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that “there is nothing wrong” with working with Qatar because “it is not an enemy country.”
When asked whether it was legitimate for a person who works in the Prime Minister’s Office to work for Qatar, he replied: “Absolutely not,” adding, “It is not legitimate to work with Qatar at the same time.”
Recent revelations in the Qatargate affair center on allegations that staff members in Netanyahu’s office received payments from Qatar to promote Doha’s interests while working in the Prime Minister’s Office during the war.
A series of reports and interviews published this week appear to show how close advisers to Netanyahu manipulated journalists, including by fabricating sources, to promote Qatar’s interests while Israel was at war.
