I don't see why. Trump is gone. But the fact is that when Trump wanted him to
be quiet, he was. He allowed Trump to silence him for quite some time. He's a
very political guy who always tended to play it safe. That's what he did at
first during the Reagan administration when he knew how deadly the AIDS
epidemic was and he stayed quiet about it. It wasn't until the gay community
shamed him into action that he began advocating for measures to be taken.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:23 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Fauci champions Israeli medical apartheid
Miriam,
Yes, I read the article. And yes, Fauci exposed himself as a Son of a Bitch.
All I'm saying is that exposing Fauci's predjudous will not get one single
Palestinian vaccinated, but it renders Fauci as worthless in our struggle to
protect our own People.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/20/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
Did you read the article? Did you read his response when the reporter
asked him his opinion about why Israel hadn't inoculated any
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories? The title of the article
describes precisely what he did. He gave Israel a pass. He'd just
praised them for doing a wonderful job of innoculating Israelis and he
refused to comment on the factdd that they withheld the vaccine from
all of the people in the land that they occupy. He said he didn't want to
answer any political questions.
Miriam
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Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:51 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Fauci champions Israeli medical
apartheid
I have issues with this linking of Faucie with apartheid. Yes, shame
on Fauci for holding such hurtful views. But we already know how
harmful apartheid is, without needing to distract from the beneficial
statements from Fauci. Just because Fauci stood up to Donald Trump
does not mean that he is a Citizen of the World. My thought is that
we use Fauci in America's struggle to get on top of the COVID
Pandemic, and not, in the same breath, condemn him for his unworldly views.
Why can't we accept that our heroes have feet of clay? No one is perfect.
Even God goofed up when he created Saint Lucifer.
Caarl Jarvis, in all my imperfection
On 2/20/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fauci champions Israeli medical apartheid Maureen Clare Murphy Rights
and Accountability 19 February 2021
Anthony Fauci punted when asked about Israel's refusal to provide
vaccines to Palestinians living under its military rule. Al DragoUPI
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the immunologist and chief medical adviser to the
US president, has given his implicit endorsement of Israeli medical
apartheid.
In an interview with The Times of Israel, Fauci lauded Israel's
COVID-19 vaccination program as a "model for the rest of the world,"
crediting the socialized healthcare system in the country.
Israel has been lionized for its supposedly comprehensive vaccine
rollout, with outlets like The New York Times saying it points to a
way out of the pandemic.
The only trouble is that Israel is refusing to distribute vaccines to
millions of people living under its single system of unequal rule.
If anything, Israel exemplifies the deeply inequitable global
allocation of vaccines that will only allow COVID-19 to thrive.
The reality of Israel's discriminatory vaccine rollout is hardly
worthy of praise.
Fauci's adulations are a major propaganda gift to Israel, which seeks
to be viewed as a bastion of technical innovation rather than a
brutal occupier.
The Times of Israel asked Fauci whether the country should "help
vaccinate neighboring Palestinians."
The publication notes that "Fauci responded carefully" to the question.
"You're asking me a political question, and I don't want to go there.
That only gets me into trouble," he replied.
Obligation not benevolence
The very framing of the question as to whether Israel should "help"
its "neighbors" is fundamentally flawed, whitewashing the reality
that five million Palestinians live under its military rule.
Providing vaccinations is not simply a matter of Israel acting
benevolently to a neighbor. It's a matter of Israel fulfilling its
obligations under international law.
As the occupying power, Israel is responsible for the public health
of the people living in the territory it occupies.
Article 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention makes "particular
reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and
preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious
diseases and epidemics."
Providing vaccinations to Palestinians is not a matter of politics or
plain morality but of rights and responsibilities. Israel has utterly
failed to uphold its obligations at the expense of Palestinian public
health.
But even if it were a matter of Israeli generosity and benevolence
towards a "neighbor," it's telling that Fauci couldn't just give a
straightforward "yes" for an answer.
Fauci has explicitly called for vaccine "solidarity between countries"
as critical to ending the pandemic.
Why are Palestinians excluded from this basic concern for humanity?
Medical apartheid
Israelis living in West Bank settlements, built in violation of
international law, are able to receive inoculations but not
Palestinians living in the same territory under the same state authority.
There's a word for this kind of state-sanctioned separate and unequal
treatment.
Earlier this week, Israel delayed the transfer of vaccine doses
acquired by the Palestinian Authority for frontline medical workers
in the Gaza Strip.
Some Israeli lawmakers sought to condition the transfer of vaccines
on political concessions from Hamas.
Under a severely tightened Israeli blockade since 2007, the Gaza
Strip is one of the most densely populated places on the planet.
Israel's siege has "pushed Gaza's healthcare system to the brink of
collapse,"
Palestinian human rights groups have warned.
All aspects of Palestinian life, including the right to health, are
harmed by Israel's regime of occupation, settler-colonization and
apartheid.
Decades of "de-development and economic subordination" have prevented
Palestinians from access to vaccines, as the corporate watchdog Who
Profits notes.
Meanwhile, Israel refuses to vaccinate the vulnerable Palestinian
workers who serve as its captive and disposable labor force.
And while undocumented persons and status-less non-Palestinian
refugees and migrant workers in Israel are eligible to receive
vaccinations, Palestinians from the West Bank living in the country
are being turned away.
The Times of Israel interviewed Fauci on the occasion of his winning
the $1 million Dan David Prize awarded by a foundation based at Tel
Aviv University.
That university is deeply complicit in Israel's system of occupation,
settler-colonialism and apartheid against Palestinians.
A prize that big may make it tempting to turn away from the reality
of Israeli medical apartheid. But that doesn't make it right.
By treating Palestinian rights as a "political question," Fauci is
undermining the work of groups who are calling on Israel to fulfill
its obligations under international law.
That is a political act, and a very shameful one to be sure.