Jerusalem Post: Israeli Intelligence Shin Bet Says Netanyahu Funded Hamas, "Enabled" October 7
Reprinted at the request of a friend, Ralph Lopez
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Hi Cindy long time love your substack! I am terribly frustrated that I cannot get any traction on this story, as it is the one thing IMO that could cause the fall of Netanyahu and save a couple million remaining Gazans from genocide. It is getting hits but I think it is getting shadow-banned as soon as the e-IDF finds it. I think it is a bombshell which is why they are all over it the minute I pin it up on some forum or social media. Could you please consider republishing it at your substack? Thanks for the consideration!
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Jerusalem Post: Israeli Intelligence Shin Bet Says Netanyahu Funded Hamas, "Enabled" October 7
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22 hours ago
UPDATE BREAKING AUGUST 23, 2025: Former Israeli Defense Minister Says Netanyahu "Nurtured" Hamas "for Years" (Jerusalem Post)
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The Jerusalem Post reports on March 4, 2025 in "Netanyahu's funding for Hamas via Qatar enabled October 7 invasion, Shin Bet reveals":
"...policies carried out under Netanyahu that the agency flagged as problematic and as contributions to Hamas’s decision to invade were his facilitation of Qatari funding to Hamas and his opposition to proposed assassination operations of top Hamas leaders at the time."
Shin Bet is the Israeli government agency which would be the equivalent of the US Department of Homeland Security.
A 2023 New York Times and other media reports, both American and Israeli, describe how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was behind funding Hamas to the tune of many millions in the years just prior to the October 7 attack, even as other Israeli politicians questioned and condemned it. Moreover, two Israeli intelligence agencies say they warned Netanyahu that some of the funding was going directly to finance terrorism.
Netanyahu has been Israeli PM for all but two years since 2009. The Jerusalem Post reported in 2024:
"Netanyahu’s previous government [from 2009 to 2019 reportedly began transferring $30 million a month to the Gaza Strip in 2014."
One of Netanyahu's favorite counter-attacks on critics of his Gaza policies is to call them "pro-Hamas." He repeatedly lashes out at Hamas for its "barbarism" and "savagery." Netanyahu has acknowledged approving the payments, saying in 2018 that the millions in financial support to an organization which regularly fires rockets at Israel was for "humanitarian" purposes.
In March 2025 The Times of Israel wrote:
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned at least twice before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that the terror group’s military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar to Gaza with the premier’s approval, Hebrew media reported Tuesday.
According to near-identical reports by Channel 12 and the Kan public broadcaster, Netanyahu was warned in 2019 by then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman, and again in 2020 by the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate."
Below: Headline from Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2025
In December 2023 the New York Times wrote in "‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas":
"Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them."
CNN reported in 2023:
"The prime minister defended the [funding] initiative at the time, saying the deal was made “in coordination with security experts to return calm to (Israeli) villages of the south, but also to prevent a humanitarian disaster (in Gaza).”
Some say that Netanyahu's concern for a humanitarian crisis rings hollow, as he oversees once of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern times. Even staunch Israel supporter President Trump has acknowledged there is "real starvation" in Gaza.
CNN said:
"In 2018, Qatar began making monthly payments to the Gaza Strip. Some $15 million were sent into Gaza in cash-filled suitcases – delivered by the Qataris through Israeli territory after months of negotiation with Israel....
Israel approved the deal in a security cabinet meeting in August 2018, when Netanyahu was serving his previous tenure as premier.
Even then, Netanyahu was criticized by his coalition partners for the deal and for being too soft on Hamas."
Naftali Bennett, who became prime minister in 2021 told CNN:
"Why would we feed them cash to kill us?”
Humanitarian aid usually takes the form of in-kind assistance, such as food and water packages, medicines to hospitals, or fuel. International black markets for weapons require cash.
Since 2006, Hamas has been launching rockets into Israel every year, totaling thousands, according to the IDF. In 2017, the year before 2018 Qatar mission, there were 35 rocket attacks on Israel launched from the Gaza Strip. In 2018, hundreds of rockets were fired into Israel. In 2014 Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel.
In October 2023 the Times of Israel reported in "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces":
"Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip."
In February 2020, former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, now head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, told Israel Channel 12 News that Netanyahu had a few weeks before "begged" Qatar to continue the flow of money to Hamas.
Liberman said, as reported by The Times of Israel in 2023:
“On Wednesday two weeks ago the head of Mossad… and the head of [IDF] Southern Command visit Qatar on an errand from Netanyahu, and they simply beg the Qataris to keep sending money to Hamas after March 30. The Qataris have said they will stop sending money on March 30,”
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"