The Rise of Vaccine Nationalism

[TreeFrogTrader]

Israel would rather toss millions of vaccine doses in the trash than give them to the Palestinian Authority.

Israel may toss millions of vaccines. Why won’t it give them to the PA instead?
With unwanted AstraZeneca doses on the way, and the majority of the Palestinians not vaccinated, there would seem to be a win-win solution. Except it’s not that simple
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israe...ines-why-wont-it-give-them-to-the-pa-instead/

One quote...

Many Israelis don’t see sending COVID-19 doses to the PA or Gaza as an ethical act at all. “I think we have to admit that they are not nice neighbors,” said Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. “We don’t have any moral responsibility to care for neighbors who pay money to terrorists, who turn to international organizations like the ICC in order to fight against us. We are in a war with them. I don’t remember the Americans sending vaccines to the Germans in World War II. I think the demand on Israel to aid its enemies is immoral.”


“I prefer to send them to India, not to the PA,” he continued. “India doesn’t pay terrorists.”

Many such squabbles exist throughout the world. India is no choir boy here either, saying that it will not supply Pakistan, back before it got into trouble and was not prepared to even help itself. Europe has its squabbles too.

As I have said before a couple times "if only we had an international organization committed to working on such issues when they arise. We could call it the World Health Organization.
They could ship Israel's surplus to some non-controversial country and then find some surplus units elsewhere in the world (how bout maybe their own Covax vaccines, nevermind) to supply the Palestinians.

Also as I have said a couple times before, when the history of this pandemic shows problems with individual nationalist actions and everyone is ready to foam at the mouth on that. But it also shows LOTS of problems with the multicountry collective actions and organizations such as the EU and the WHO. Some of those folks need to do some work.

Full disclosure: I have problem seeing the Palestinians receive supply and I also have no problems seeing why the issue is to raw with Israel for them to do so. Ditto for the India/Pakistan dispute and so on down the line. But that is why we have international intermediaries such as the UN/WHO to put bondo and duct and do work arounds. Do some work for Christ's sake. Africa is wall to wall with countries where significant portions of the people are in rebellion/opposition/outright war with the central government. Get over it and find internationally neutral ways and organizations to approach it. Sheesh.