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Report says Doha gave firm owned by PM associate Einhorn $45,000 per month for 2 years, of which $18,000 went to Netanyahu spokesman Urich; separately, adviser Feldstein got $11,000

Qatar paid senior Israeli officials, including several top advisers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a total of some $10 million in recent years to boost the image of the Gulf nation, the Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday evening.

Citing estimates by law enforcement officials involved in the Qatargate probe, the report says that Perception Media — owned by Yisrael Einhorn, a former campaign adviser to Netanyahu — was paid $45,000 per month over two years, from 2022 until the project was scrapped in late 2024.

Some $18,000 per month out of the payment to Perception went to Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich, the report says.

Separately from the payments to Perception, $11,000 per month went to another Netanyahu aide, Eli Feldstein.

The rest was paid to then-senior defense officials, former Mossad officials and employees of a tech firm, according to Kan.

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[–] rezz@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The most surprising thing about disclosures like this is how stunningly cheap the bribes are.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They have to be cheap so their capitalist overlords can buy them without significantly compromising their wealth. It's the bourgeois part of bourgeois democracy.

[–] rezz@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Yeah but this is like, an upper middle class family in Oklahoma could afford to bribe at this level. It’s sub-cheap compared to the political yield. Like if people knew their own politicians were this cheap domestically, I think you’d see a more diverse congress that’s more progressive, ironically.