This past week as Qatargate stepped up a level found people debating whether Qatar is an enemy of Israel or not. People who used to say Qatar is an enemy State are now saying Qatar is complex or Qatar is complicated but not an enemy. People who previously did business with Qatar are now saying Qatar is a hostile entity or an enemy of Israel.

To me the question of whether Qatar is an enemy of Israel or not is besides the point. Pointing out the fact that Qatar is one of the main financiers, if not THE main financier, of Hamas, is beside the point.

I dont think anyone other than the State of Israel should be funding salaries in the Prime Ministers Office, or any other government office or Ministry. Not even Israel's greatest friends and allies in the world. If I heard the USA was paying the salaries of the aides of Israel's Prime Minister, I would think that is a problem. If I heard Hungary was paying the salaries of aides of the Defense Minister of Transportation Minister, to me that would be a serious problem. 

In my mind it does not matter, for this issue, if Qatar is an enemy or not - no foreign entity should be paying the salaries of people in the government (Knesset included) of Israel. If Qatar is an enemy state that makes it worse, but if they are not an enemy it is still not ok.

The government has been pretty busy at times over the past year getting upset (even to the point of passing laws about this) that foreign money is funding leftist protest movements in Israel and anti-government activity, when it turns out that foreign money was also funding people in the government itself.