Thread: The @PSCupdates latest campaign to write to the Foreign Secretary accusing Israel of 'medical apartheid' over Covid vaccinations is abhorrent. This thread takes apart the “medical apartheid” lie. (1)

PSC cites the Geneva Convention and the obligations an occupier has to the occupied. But the Oslo Accords - a big step towards Palestinian statehood and sovereignty - gave the PA control of their own healthcare provision – something they wanted as a step towards statehood. (2)
On 21/11/20 the Palestine Authority (PA) meet with WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA to ensure that it was provided with adequate Covid vaccines. Israel wasn’t invited to these talks. (3)
The PA continue to acquire Covid vaccinations independently and on 12/12/20 ordered 4million doses of the Russian vaccine. (4)
On 9 Jan the PA announced that “Four vaccine producer companies [will deliver for] 70% of the Palestinian people... the WHO will provide for 20%.” Still not asking Israel for help. (5)
Meanwhile Israel had secured the Pfizer vaccine and created a world leading vaccination programme, already vaccinating over 20% of Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs equally. (6)
Up until this point the PA did not ask Israel once for help. Israel is not withholding Covid vaccines from Palestinians. Israel is vaccinating its population including Palestinians in East Jerusalem, and the PA is accountable for vaccinating theirs. (7)
Israel’s health minister Yuli Edelstein: "we've been helping our Palestinian neighbours from the very early stages of this crisis, including medical equipment, including medicine, including advice, including supplies." (8)
"We do understand that it's in Israeli interests that there will be less cases on the Palestinian side. Many of the Palestinians are working here... You can't divide the two neatly and say, you know, 'they can deal with it themselves; it's not our issue'. It is our issue." (9)
It is not unreasonable that Israel is vaccinating its own population first. All countries would do the same. It is unlikely that the PA request will go unmet. "If any other help will be needed, we will offer." - Yuli Edelstein (10)
For more information check out our latest podcast where our Campaign Manager talks to @Jerusalem_Post @LahavHarkov about Israel's vaccination drive and busting the lies on medical apartheid https://t.co/yrJdaMswj4 (11)
Thank you to @palwatch for the chronology of PA announcements. (12)

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I was half kidding. I also assumed someone would think of what I did pretty quickly and waiting for the comment to mention what I assumed was obvious.

The timing. I was sure someone else had thought of it.


But no one did. 20+ comments in people discussed the morality or bad sense or libertarian perspectives. Someone even said I’m thinking about doing that. No one said what I thought was obvious. Have you thought of it? Is it obvious to you?

Here’s a clue...recognize it?


How about this?


The author discusses it with Mike Wallace in 1958
Every single public defender. Every single day.


Bail arguments, motions, oral arguments, hearings. Judges don’t know, follow, or care about the law. Prosecutors are willing to take advantage of it. And mandatory minimums, withheld evidence, & pretrial detention coerces people to plead before trial. When theres a jury. A shot.

But defenders still fight. And still win. Most times wins aren’t “Justice.” It’s power of repetition of argument in front of same judges. Introducing those in power to the people they oppress. Not just a RAP sheet or words on a page. Defenders make it harder to be brutal & cruel.

I worked as a public defender at an office as well resourced as any in the country. Social workers, team of investigators, a reentry team, support staff, specialist attorneys in immigration, housing, education, family. Relatively low caseloads (80-100). And yet still injustice.

Most think that balancing the scales of justice means more funding for defenders. Thats part of it. Enough a attorneys to actually be at bail hearings. Wrap around services to be able to help people trapped in the system end up better off in their communities. Lower caseloads.

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