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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• September 21, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Hamas and Palestinian
Authority (PA) officials have turned medical care into a business
that earns them hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. This
corruption has enabled top officials in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
to embezzle millions of shekels from the PA budget.
- In 2013, the PA
spent more than half a billion shekels covering medical bills of
Palestinians who were referred to hospitals outside the Palestinian
territories. However, no one seems to know exactly how the money was
spent and whether all those who received the referrals were indeed
in need of medical treatment. In one case, it appeared that 113
Palestinian patients had been admitted to Israeli hospitals at the
cost of 3 million shekels, while there is no documentation of any of
these cases. Even the identities of the patients remain unknown.
- Hajer Harb, a
courageous Palestinian journalist from the Gaza Strip, says she is
now facing charges of "slander" for exposing the
corruption. She has been repeatedly interrogated by Hamas. The PA
regime, for its part, is not too happy with exposure about the
scandal.
- Gaza's
hospitals would be rather better equipped if Hamas used its money to
build medical centers instead of tunnels for smuggling weapons from
Egypt to attack Israel.
A Palestinian man is transferred to an Israeli
ambulance at the Erez crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel, on his
way to an Israeli hospital, July 29, 2014. (Image source: Israeli Foreign
Ministry)
Question: How do Palestinian patients obtain permits to receive
medical treatment in Israeli and other hospitals around the world?
Answer: By paying bribes to senior Palestinian officials in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip. Those who cannot afford to pay the bribes are left to die
in under-equipped and understaffed hospitals, especially in the Gaza
Strip.
Yet, apparently some Palestinians are more equal than others:
Palestinians whose lives are not in danger, but who pretend that they
are. These include businessmen, merchants, university students and
relatives of senior Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas officials, who
receive permits to travel to Israel and other countries under the pretext
of medical emergency.
by Philip Carl Salzman
• September 21, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Black Lives
Matter has been guided to anti-Semitism by the concept of
"intersectionality, which argues that all oppressions are
interlinked and cannot be solved alone. Thus, women can never be
treated fairly if blacks face racial prejudice, and the disabled are
not given sufficient support to be equal to the abled, and unless
the Palestinians are liberated from the Israelis, and the Israelis
are liberated from their lives and their home.
- "Intersectionality"
urges us to view the world as divided into a conspiracy of
oppressors and an agony of oppressed, and reduces people to a number
of categories, such as gender, sexuality, race, nationality,
religion, capability, etc. Differences, such as sexism, racism,
nationalism and ability -- as opposed to what we have in common --
are reinforced.
- Supporters of
"intersectionality" cheer terrorists when they murder
Jews. To them, that is just "social justice" at work.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has been guided to
anti-Semitism by the concept of "intersectionality, which argues
that all oppressions are interlinked and cannot be solved alone. BLM
activists have visited Gaza and expressed a sympathetic attitude towards
groups like Hamas, which calls for the genocide of Jews and engages in
terrorism.
The recently published platform of Black Lives Matter (BLM) states
that Israel is responsible for "the genocide taking place against
the Palestinian people," and "Israel is an apartheid state ...
that sanction[s] discrimination against the Palestinian people."
These statements are anti-Semitic not only because they are false and
modern versions of tradition anti-Semitic blood libel, but also because
BLM selectively chooses the Jewish State out of all the states in the
world to demonize. What has inspired BLM to engage in this
counter-factual, anti-Semitic rant? BLM has been guided to anti-Semitism
by the concept of "intersectionality."
"Intersectionality" is the idea that all oppressed peoples
and categories of people share a position, and by virtue of that fact are
potential allies in the struggle against their oppressors.
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