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Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images Dan Diker writes that it is  the Palestinian Authority which should take responsibility for vaccinating citizens in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and not Israel.  Matthias Kennes, a medic with the humanitarian and political group Doctors without Borders , has chronicled his experiences as a medical volunteer working to help Palestinians manage the Covid-19 pandemic in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the former West Bank of Jordan.  In an opinion piece titled, "Israel and Palestine: The despair of cruel vaccination inequalities", Kennes expresses...

  The Palestinian Authority (PA) over the past week has reportedly ramped up its campaign against doing business with Israelis. On January 27, Ramallah reportedly ordered the closure of a Palestinian-owned cement factory accused of coordinating with Jewish communities located beyond the pre-1967 borders. Meanwhile, a Bethlehem court convicted a Palestinian man to 15 years of hard labor in prison for attempting to sell land to an Israeli. Indeed, the PA considers selling land in the West Bank, including the eastern part of Jerusalem, to Jews a heinous crime that in some cases warrants the dea...

A response to “The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story”, Mail & Guardian, 13 January 2021

>> i am not talking here about the political culture. i am talking about the culture in general and i think they would make outstanding examples of people who push for liberalism and individualism. and i think i can use them. >> can you tell us which ones? >> the two i am referring to is wajeha al-huwaider and from syria to also push the envelope very much. you look at individuals who treasure their rights and their freedoms as individual into question the culture around them. and of course they have democratic inclinations. and i think the...