Opuscula PLO/PFLP blocks Sick “Palestinians” From Israeli medics

BEFORE ANYONE (FALSELY) CLAIMS THAT ISRAEL prevents sick residents of the PLO/PFLP and Hamas controlled areas from accessing medical care in Israel, LEARN THE FACTS.

It is NOT Israel that prevents “Palestinian” access to Israeli medical care. The PLO/PFLP closed the border (to everyone except politicians and their near kin).

 

 

GRANTED, even before the PLO/PFLP and Hamas closed the border, getting medical care in Israel oft times was difficult.

That might be because too many “Palestinians” brought bombs and other weapons with them into Israel to slaughter any Israeli they could attack.

But “Palestinians” have been coming to Israeli public and private hospitals from the beginning; even before there was a call for another “Palestinian” state. Jordan is the original Palestinian state and it controlled the area where Egyptian Yassar Arafat wanted to create a new state. Egypt controlled Gaza and most Gazans have an “Egyptian connection.”

According to a headline in the English on-line version of Israel HaYom, PA's bid to halt application of sovereignty leaves Gaza patients in limbo¹ “The refusal to process requests for medical permits, aimed at protesting Israel's plan to begin applying sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, has instead hurt many sick Palestinians.”

Jomaa al-Najjar was desperate to send his 2-month-old daughter Joud out of the Gaza Strip to Israel for urgent medical treatment for epilepsy. But with the Palestinian Authority refusing to relay his request, there was no way to coordinate her transfer.

This week, she died in a Gaza hospital.

Who killed the child?

Mahmoud Abbas.

Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the authority was no longer bound by previous agreements with Israel going back to the 1990s, which created the PA. He suspended all ties with Israel, even security coordination.

The Palestinians view Israel's proposed sovereignty initiative in the Jordan Valley and some settlements as an existential threat because it would make it virtually impossible to create a viable Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and east Jerusalem.

Never mind that the so-called Trump Plan — a plan that Abbas refused to even review — did create a “Palestinian” state in Israel that included the PLO/PFLP and Hamas-controlled Gaza.

"We are on the brink of medical chaos," said a spokesperson for Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, a humanitarian group. It said the PA Health Ministry has also stopped covering the cost of treatment in Israeli hospitals, meaning that organ transplant patients are unable to return for post-surgery rehabilitation. The group has appealed to Israeli authorities to ensure the continued movement of Palestinian patients to Israel for treatment.

It is the PLO/PFLP and Hamas that are preventing their citizens from treatment in Israel. Given that Israel is treating patients from area countries, sometimes via an intermediate country such as Cyprus, it is highly unlikely that Israel would refuse to treat any legitimate patient from anywhere. Worst case, Israel could bill the patient’s government, even realizing there is little chance of collecting.

Patients requiring advanced treatment usually travel to east Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, or even in Israel proper. They need Israeli permission for all three. Egypt has sealed its border with Gaza since March due to the coronavirus.

Hamas has no direct contact with Israel but allows a PA-run liaison office in Gaza to coordinate the entry and exit of medical patients, even during the wars.

According to the Israel HaYom posting, “The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a Gaza nonprofit, briefly stepped in to help coordinate the permits but stopped after Israeli media reported the arrangement.”

Ibrahim Melhem, a Palestinian Authority spokesman in Judea and Samaria, defended the decision to cut ties.

"Israel is the occupying power on the borders of Gaza and it bears responsibility for the results of delaying or preventing patients from crossing to hospitals in Jerusalem and [Judea and Samaria]," he said.

Gisha, an Israeli nongovernmental organization that advocates for Palestinian freedom of movement, said Israel, the PA, and Hamas must protect that right. It called on Israel to "identify an immediate solution to meet the urgent needs of Gaza's residents for movement, especially patients in need of life-saving treatment."

But if the PLO/PFLP and Hamas refuse to even talk to Israel HOW can Melhem honestly claim that Israel “bears responsibility for the results of delaying or preventing patients from crossing to hospitals”​ As for Gisha, this apparently left-wing NGO also refuses to lay the blame where it belongs: squarely at the feet of the PLO/PFLP and Hamas “leadership.” Rather than demanding that Israel "identify an immediate solution to meet the urgent needs of Gaza's residents for movement, especially patients in need of life-saving treatment" it should be pressing the PLO/PFLP and Hamas to do exactly what it demands of Israel.

The world undoubtedly will hear only the cries of Ibrahim Melhem and Gisha, blaming the lack of access to health care in Israel on Israel.

True, it often is difficult and time consuming to get permission to cross into Israel for medical care. But it was being done.

In January, close to 3,000 Gazans left for treatment via the Erez crossing with Israel, according to UN figures. That number plunged in the following months as authorities heavily restricted travel to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but 188 crossed in April.

It is not Israel that is preventing the residents of the PLO/PFLP and Hamas areas from accessing medical care in Israel. It is the pride of Mahmoud Abbas that has closed the borders.

For want of a nail²

Had Israels neighbors accepted the new state in 1948, Israel would be tiny and Jordan/Palestine would be huge.

Had Israel’s neighbors not continued to attack the small country,

*  Syria still would be in control of the Golan Heights

*  Jordan still wold be in control of Jerusalem (and restricting access to Jewish sites)

*  The PLO/PFLP and Hamas probably would not exist as Jordan and Egypt would put them down early on.

 

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Sources

1. Israel HaYom: https://tinyurl.com/yaxmh834

2. For want of a nail: https://tinyurl.com/n7sb629

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Opuscula Gazans escape To Europe, Not Arab lands

DEAR “SQUAD” MEMBERS AND FRIENDS, why do Gazans leave the Strip for Europe when they could relocate to

* PLO-controlled areas of Israel
* Stay in Egypt from which most of their ancestors came
* Move to Jordan to be with fellow “Palestinians”
* Relocate to any Muslim-dominated country in the Middle East or elsewhere in the world?

PERHAPS “THE SQUAD” and their progressive fellow travelers should press the UN to set up special “camps” for refugees from Gaza where they can fester until Hamas is over-thrown by another despotic organization. The UN could guarantee them a “right of return” for all generations to come as it does with its captives of UNRWA camps.

It could revise the textbooks it uses to inflame children to hate and kill Israelis by simply replacing the word “Israel” with “Hamas.” (It probably would like to replace Israel, not just the word.)

How Do Israel Bashers Answer This Question?

Tell me, you ignorant Israel bashers — I cannot bring myself to call them “ladies” — Why are these escapees from the wonderful government on the Strip going to Europe vs. a Muslim country?

There are, after all, many countries where Muslims are in the majority.

According to the Pew Research Center in 2015 there were 50 Muslim-majority countries. Worldatlas.com (April 2017) identified 45 'Islamic countries'.¹

Islamic World (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

According to various sources, the escapees — what other term can be used for people who abandon everything for a better life elsewhere? — typically are well educated; professional people. They apparently have command of more languages that just Egyptian Arabic, and many have been exposed to other cultures (when in school for their professional degrees outside the Strip).

But why go so far — to Europe — rather than to Palestine (a/k/a Jordan) via Egypt? Why not continue to Libya or turn south to Somalia where professionals are sorely needed? Saudia Arabia and the Gulf states are available.

Europe already is over-saturated with Middle Eastern Muslims to the point of a non-Muslim backlash against immigrants. This backlash also works against students who fully intend to return to their home countries. (This accounts for some of the exodus from Hamas and the Strip.) It’s easy to tar a whole people with a single brush because of the actions of some.

A Tale of One Man’s Escape & Death

This small effort was prompted by an Associated Press (AP) news article headlined Gazan's death abroad shines light on middle-class exodus.²

Two paragraphs sum up the article:

Fed up with the heavy-handed rule of Hamas, al-Sultan braved a treacherous journey in hopes of starting a new life in the West — only to die along the way. His death has drawn attention to the growing exodus of middle-class Gazans who can no longer bear to live in the isolated coastal territory.

It has also struck a nerve among many Palestinians because he appears to have fled persecution by Hamas, rather than the territory’s dire economic conditions following a 12-year blockade by Israel and Egypt, imposed when the Islamic militant group seized power.

The AP article correctly noted than Egypt also blockaded Gaza but it failed to note that the both countries’ blockades were intermittent and that Israel typically enforces a blockade only after being attacked from Gaza. “Fake news” can be created through omission of facts as well as blatant lies.

Sheeple (https://freemanmovement.com)

Ignorance Is Bliss; Facts, Who Needs’em?

“The Squad” of misled women and the sheeple who foolishly follow them in their pursuit of ignorance — Facts? I don’t need any “facts.” I have my opinion and that is good enough. Facts be damned. — are too busy bashing a country and people about which they have no direct knowledge and promoting a program — BDS — that harms the people for whom they pretend to care, while ignoring the reality of states known for undemocratic and inhumane treatment of the people living in those states.

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Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world

2. https://apnews.com/cd5221bff5694da4b717f811ae2053b6

3. https://freemanmovement.com/dont-be-a-sheeple/

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Neighbors Isn't it AMAZING

 

Egypt wants gas,
Israel, Jordan building a bridge

FOR YEARS ISRAEL has been telling its neighbors: Have peaceful relations with us and we all gain.

Egypt listened and, although there have been some tensions, the Sadat-Begin peace has held. (I list Anwar Sadat first since he came to Jerusalem to meet with Menachem Begin - two old warriors who knew all too well the price of war.)

Egypt now is first in line for Israeli gas from the Med. It has plans to use some and make a profit on the rest that it buys from its neighbor.

Jordan, which came to the table late, now is planning a new bridge over the river to connect industrial districts in each country.

There already are three crossings between Israel and Jordan:

  Allenby/King Hussein bridge

  Sheikh Hussein crossing /North Border

  Wadi Araba Crossing/South Border,

According to the WorldTribune,
Israel and Jordan plan to boost economic and trade ties with the development of a joint industrial zone on both banks of the Jordan River.

“This is an important milestone between the two countries in promoting a large-scale economic project, which will provide employment and welfare to Israeli and Jordanian citizens and the entire region,” said Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara, who heads the project.

Jordan and Israel, in this scrivener's opinion, should be working together to develop a common international airport near the Red Sea.

The bridge is not the only thing Israel and Jordan are working on together.

Also in the works is a joint effort to build a waterway between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. This little enterprise is expected to cost the neighbors roughly US$800 million according to a Jerusalem Post article.

There is a long history of quiet cooperation between the two countries. Those "quiet" conversations failed to prevent war, but perhaps laid the groundwork for the current peace agreement with the Hashemite kingdom.

With Egypt the issues are security in general and Gaza (Hamas) in particular.

But peace, even a shaky peace, is proving beneficial for all three countries. If only some others in the region would recognize the value of peace with Israel, even if it is "unofficial."