Could we please have some self respect?

Hanoch Ne’eman 4 Shevat 5782 

As is my custom, I like to comment on some of the news items in my weekly paper. Here are some from last week, Parshat Vaera.

Israel plans to give natural gas to Gaza. Here’s the whole article from Hamodia:   

Multipartite Gas Deal for Gaza Inked By Zalman Ahnsaf Sunday, December 26, 2021 כ”ב טבת תשפ”ב
After several years of negotiations, a complicated deal to supply Gaza with Israeli natural gas has been reached, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday.
Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza’s electrical company signed a memorandum containing a Qatari pledge to invest $60 million in laying the pipeline for Gaza’s only power plant.
The so-called Gas for Gaza initiative, involving Israel, Hamas, the PA, Qatar, Egypt and the European Union, among others, has been delayed repeatedly due to wars with Hamas.
The plan calls for natural gas to be piped from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, which lies off Gaza’s coast, to a power station in southern Israel. The EU and Qatar will then fund extensions to the pipeline to Gaza’s power plant.

Comment
Nu? Are we nuts? Does anyone else besides me think it’s nuts to sell gas to a city which continuously tries to kill us? In my humble opinion, we should not sell anything to Gaza for many years. Can one imagine the US selling gas to Mexico if Mexico was continually starting wars with her? I suspect corruption here. It’s the same thing with our giving them electricity now, which they often do not pay for. Someone is making money on this.