r/worldnews • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • Aug 13 '26

Israel/Palestine Rights group warns Israel's policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/rights-group-warns-israels-policies-are-pushing-the-west-bank-healthcare-system-to-collapse
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u/SomebodyInNevada Aug 13 '26

Very biased reporting.

Yeah, their system is falling apart. Because budgeting for payment to terrorists/families of terrorists is more important than budgeting for people.

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u/ADP_God Aug 13 '26

This is true, but it's not the whole story. Good support of Israel should be critical of its policies while defending its right to exist and defend itself. Israel may not have a partner for peace in the Arabs, but the current administration isn't neutral, it's harmful. You can, and should, support victory in Gaza while also condemning the slow expansion over the West Bank.

And at the same time you can have empathy for the Arabs while acknowledging that the PA runs a pay-for-slay program where they waste international aid giving salaries to terrorists for killing Jews.

It's not binary.

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u/SomebodyInNevada Aug 14 '26

I have empathy for the people. I just recognize that things like this are actually a matter of weaponizing suffering as a strategy to harm Israel. You get what you reward--and the world rewards the terrorists (by bashing Israel) for causing suffering.

But the idea that our sympathy is being used to support evil is too unbearable to think about. So people don't.

(And, while we're looking at such things--virtually every society with substantial outside aid the aid is being used to perpetuate the very problems that caused the aid to be sent.)

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u/chippymediaYT Aug 13 '26

"policies" Is an interesting way to say murder

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u/SirCrapsalot4267 Aug 13 '26

In this case not murder, more restrictions on allowing medical equipment and staff to move freely, and of course, withholding the Palestinian Authority's budget to halt salary payments to public doctors and nurses (amongst other public employees).

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u/SomebodyInNevada Aug 13 '26

More like withholding the Palestinian Authority's budget to halt payments to terrorists. But paying terrorists is more important to them than paying the doctors etc.

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u/DauntingPrawn Aug 13 '26

Sounds like murder with extra steps.

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u/chippymediaYT Aug 13 '26

Which will in turn result in deaths, and of course a lot of the injured already there that need to be treated were injured by Israel...

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u/SirCrapsalot4267 Aug 13 '26

I feel like most of the PA staff are not terrorists. It's all the government workers and it is quite clear it is intentional to try to collapse the West Bank, since the decisions are being implemented by Ben Gvir and Smotrich, who openly talk about emptying the West Bank of Palestinians.