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.