Spin Engineer: Bennett Tries to Pin the Submarine Affair 2.0 on Netanyahu | Mati Tuchfeld

An opinion column in Maariv claims that the campaign against Netanyahu in the Qatar affair is a political spin by Bennett, similar to the submarine affair that fizzled out. The author calls the allegations "unsubstantiated" and claims that the investigation, which began as a Shin Bet security check, is being exploited politically.

Mati Tuchfeld, a columnist for Maariv, claims that the campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the "Qatar affair" (Qatargate) is a political spin run by Naftali Bennett and his campaign engineers. He compares the affair to the submarine affair (Case 3000), which he says was presented as "the most severe corruption affair in the history of the state" but ultimately Netanyahu was not a suspect and the affair ended without connection to him. According to him, after Bennett's "enemy state" campaign did not catch on, the engineers moved to stage two: inventing a story about the transfer of materials to Qatar by Netanyahu's advisors, an unsubstantiated claim that does not appear in any legal or evidentiary document. He notes that the investigation began as a Shin Bet security check headed by Ronen Bar, but political figures are trying to "hijack" it and turn it into a political attack tool. He predicts the campaign will fail because it is not connected to reality, and the public will recognize that it is a fabricated story for political purposes.