When Hamas and Fatah struck a deal last month that resulted in an agreement for elections and a government run by “technocrats,” Israeli officials went apoplectic–at least in rhetoric. But the government has not cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority, and is not urging the U.S. government or the European Union to cut funds. Israel won’t be doing so anytime soon, despite calls from right-wing Israelis and Americans to do so.

The core reason why aid continues to flow to the PA can be seen in the wake of the reported abduction of three Israelis in the occupied West Bank who went missing after leaving a yeshiva. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has linked the abductions to the unity government.

“You remember that Israel warned the international community about the dangers of endorsing the Fatah-Hamas unity pact,” Netanyahu said in a statement on the abductions. “I believe that the dangers of that pact now should be abundantly clear to all.”

But if Netanyahu really believed Mahmoud Abbas was responsible for the reported abductions, Israel’s government would have stopped transferring cash to the PA’s coffers. They have not.