US Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized the Israeli government for sending COVID-19 vaccines to foreign allies before sending them to Palestinians.
"Sanders was responding to a New York Times tweet stating that"Israel's vaccine donations to faraway countries have angered Palestinians who say Israel is responsible for the well-being of Palestinians in the occupied territories, where vaccines are scarce.
Why doesn't Bernie Sanders deplore the behavior of the PA? He could fulminate in the Senate: "It is unacceptable that the PA, instead of buying vaccines that would have inoculated the entire Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank, chose instead to spend its money on the Pay-For-Slay program that rewards, and incentivizes, terrorism." Could Bernie begin to tell that obvious truth? I doubt it.
Does Sanders understand those clauses? "Powers and responsibilities in the sphere of Health in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be transferred to the Palestinian side"? On what basis does he now claim that Israel is "Responsible for the health of all the people under its control"? And in fact, how can he claim that the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank are "Under its control"? The last Israeli pulled out of Gaza in 2005; its inhabitants have been under the control ever since of Hamas.
As Israel began its vaccine rollout late last year, some activists and foreign media outlets criticized it for not including the Palestinians, arguing that under international law, Israel is the "Occupying power" and must vaccinate them.
Israel had no duty to supply the Palestinians with vaccines, but nonetheless has sent 5,000 doses so that, Israel hoped, frontline Palestinian health workers could be vaccinated.
Israel's Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein, says that once Israel has finished vaccinating its own population, it will be sending unused doses of the vaccine to the Palestinians.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Bernie Sanders Castigates Israel About Vaccinating Palestinians
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