She then challenged Maitlis directly, saying: “Would you impose getting vaccines to the leaders of the Palestinians? Would you say you have to accept Israeli access and Israeli help when they are not interested?
“Can you impose receiving vaccines when their leadership want to be in charge of the programme? You are patronising the Palestinians.”
She continued: “They had their own programme, they bought the Russian vaccine – I think we need to respect that.”
Confirming the introduction of the Green Passport scheme from mid-May, Hotovely praised the “co-operation” with the UK during the pandemic.
Asked about discussions over a travel corridor between the UK and Israel, the ambassador gave no time frame and revealed Israel was cautious about tourism starting a third Covid wave.
(Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Political junkies watch and read a lot of news commentary on a daily basis that makes their eyes roll. But every once in a while there’s something newsworthy that pops up and absolutely makes your blood boil when you see it. And it also makes you question just how we got to the point where making comments that are decidedly unAmerican and apologistic in nature for evil foreign regimes is considered “enlightened” and “thought-provoking” in a free society.
A news segment that will make your blood boil is exactly how I would describe a recent episode of BBC News Tonight. Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs, who is also the director of their Center for Sustainable Development, absolutely lost it during a discussion of China’s gross human rights abuses as the issue related to how far the United States should be willing to go to work with the country on various issues.