Bibi Netanyahu. What a guy.
Tuesday, the Israeli government promised thousands of covid vaccines to the Czech Republic, Honduras, Guatemala and Hungary in tacit exchange for their acknowledgement of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem, which is in violation of a U.N. resolution. (Another one, as illegal West Bank settlements continue.)
Palestinians, living in oppressive squalor in Israel's occupied territories, have yet to receive even one vial of the covid vaccine.
The Israeli government has implied that vaccine distribution to Palestinian authorities is forthcoming, yet "the military department that coordinates between Israel and the Palestinian leadership had not yet received government authorization."
Palestinians have no control over their imports, so they've nowhere else to turn.
The Israeli government is also in violation of Geneva accords, which require occupying powers to assist in the occupied's public health measures.
But what does the Israeli government care about U.N. resolutions and Geneva conventions? It has the United States in its pocket. So it's free to play diplomatic games, deprive the colonized of life-saving vaccines, and operate all the Warsaw ghettoes it wants.