Posted on 02/25/2021 5:05:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
Why Israel should be responsible for inoculating Palestinians is not at all clear.
The New York Times is an amazing paper. Take the report titled "Israel Gives Vaccine to Far-Off Allies, as Palestinians Wait." The gist of it is this: Israel has a small surplus of COVID vaccine doses, and as a token of friendship, will sent them "to nations like the Czech Republic and Honduras that pledged to move diplomats to Jerusalem" rather than to Palestinians to whom they gave so far, as a humanitarian gesture, "2,000 doses and promised 3,000 more" -- "token figures, given the size of the Palestinian population."
Why the Times thinks this worthy of an article is unclear. For one, Israel is in no position to inoculate populations that are comparable in size to its' own. As is clear from the article itself, several thousand doses it plans to send to friendly countries (to be used undoubtedly for the health care workers) is just a token of friendship. So it looks like the Times' intention is to smear Israel with violating "international law:" "human rights watchdogs say that Israel should organize a systematic vaccine program in the occupied territories, rather than sporadically deliver spares a few thousand at a time. They cite the Fourth Geneva Convention, which obliges an occupying power to coordinate with the local authorities to maintain public health within an occupied territory, including during epidemics."
Why Israel should be responsible for inoculating Palestinians is not at all clear given that, as the report itself notes, "the Palestinian Authority was given responsibility for organizing its own health care system in the 1990s,
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The left has always hated the Jews. Nothing new.
The left hates anything which looks like profit. The only way everybody should act is to selflessly give away everything to the “needy”, especially, if they hate us.
If they hate us, we will show them! For everybody killed by terrorist, we will feed thousand more terrorist!
E.g. Iraq invasion was somewhat OK until somebody tried to give US oil companies some heads up on Iraqi oil.
I think the author means “immoral”.
And we should care because?
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