Late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s doctrine, “We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror,” could be twisted to describe the approach of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “We must pay for terror as if there is no peace, and we must fight peace as if there is no terror.”

On several occasions, Israel has authorized Qatari transfers of financial aid to Gaza. On May 7, Qatar announced that it would transfer more monetary aid both to Gaza and to the West Bank.

Israel has been using Qatar to fund the Hamas regime in Gaza even while the regime is attacking Israeli localities in the south, killing Israeli citizens and openly conspiring against a diplomatic arrangement. The same Israeli government is attacking the Palestinian Authority, whose leaders support a diplomatic arrangement, by withholding taxes paid by the residents of the occupied territories and collected by Israel. In fact, Israel passed a law last year to deduct from the PA tax revenues compensatory payments the PA makes to families of Palestinian assailants.

While Israel is engaging in contacts with Hamas, an organization that plans and initiates suicide attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem, to bring about a cease-fire, the Israeli government is robbing members of the Palestinian security forces, who are preventing terrorist attacks in the center of the country, of their salaries.