Thursday, February 18, 2021
8:05 AM
Elder of Ziyon
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This week there was more of a circus when it came to COVID-19 vaccines to the Palestinians.
The Palestinians sent a truck with supposedly 1000 double-dose vaccines to the Beitunia crossing on Monday to go to Gaza. They didn't coordinate this with Israel and Israel didn't do anything.
So the Palestinians and the haters started the story that Israel was refusing to send vaccines to Gaza.
The Israeli government did indeed debate whether to allow the vaccines to enter Gaza, knowing that it would go to terrorists and knowing that Hamas still held Israelis and the bodies of soldiers. The haters spent all day Tuesday tweeting about how terrible it was that Gaza had to wait to get the vaccines.
But on Wednesday, Israel allowed the vaccines to go to Gaza. The delay was only a little more than a day.
Now that the vaccines are in Gaza, when will they be distributed?
According to Hamas officials, not until Sunday.
There were dozens of articles and hundreds of tweets complaining about a one day delay for vaccines to Gaza, but a four day delay to actually distribute them? No one says a word.
Because Israel cannot be blamed.
One would think that Gaza is the worst possible place to be for the coronavirus given the amount of media attention. Yet is has suffered only about 270 deaths per million, which is better than 64 countries. (The US is at 1460 deaths per million.)
Meanwhile, in another COVID-19 story that the Western media ignores, Palestinians in the West Bank are complaining about the favoritism surrounding who received the first shots distributed there. Besides the 200 doses that were sent over to Jordan seemingly to relatives of Palestinian officials, there were complaints that vaccines went to highly placed Palestinian officials, tribal leaders, clerics and media professionals ahead of health workers.
The "pro-Palestinian" crowd is curiously silent about this.
Another development today is that Israel announced it intends to vaccinate 120,000 Palestinian workers, which will also be twisted into something evil in about an hour or two.
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