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Israel refuses to take responsibility for West Bankers, Gazans suffering COVID infections, deaths
Jan 20,2021 - Last updated at Jan 20,2021
Despite appeals from the UN and human rights organisations, Israel continues to dismiss calls to vaccinate against COVID or provide vaccines to Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has so far inoculated 2 million Israelis, including members of the Palestinian minority, and Palestinian residents of annexed East Jerusalem. But, Israel refuses to take responsibility for the 5 million West Bankers and Gazans who have suffered 160,000 COVID infections and 1,700 deaths. Last week, Israel reluctantly agreed to vaccinate Palestinian detainees as well as Israeli prisoners after rights groups insisted that exclusion would violate detainees fundamental rights as well as pose
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The Israeli left has a problem more fundamental even than its everyday political incompetence.
The left cannot win a majority in Israel without the backing of parties representing Israel’s Arab minority. This has not happened since the 1970s, just as the right needs the religious Jewish parties.
But what has emerged as the left’s defining argument – other than opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu – is a bad fit with this dependence on the country’s Arabs. That is the argument stating that unless Israel gives up the occupied territories it will saddle itself with too many Arabs for something called the Jewish state. This surfeit of Arabs includes the 2 million Israeli Arab citizens whom the left needs to flock to the polls on its behalf every election day. Awkward.