Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Marilyn Langlois's avatar

Thank you for sharing Vera's letter admonishing all who care about medical freedom and children's welfare to publicly condemn the crimes against humanity being committed by Israel in Gaza. See also Vanessa Beeley's substack about the added horror and hypocrisy of subjecting Palestinian children to mass polio vaccination. It is beyond evil to see UN officials (with a straight face!) collude with Israel to dispense these vaccines to children in Gaza whom Israel has been trying to starve to death, and whose severely weakened immune systems likely can't handle them, even if they were otherwise safe, which they aren't. They can bring in live attenuated polio virus vaccines, but they can't allow food and water into Gaza??? The whole world is passively watching biological warfare (disguised as humanitarian aid!) added to the atrocities being unleashed on these precious innocents.

https://beeley.substack.com/p/the-zionist-polio-vaccine-virtue

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

Israel Wanted Disease and Genocide in Gaza, So Why Is It Agreeing to the Polio Vaccine Being Given?

The vaccines may be seen by some as a minimal help to Palestinians in Gaza, preventing yet another disaster. And the minimal pauses resulting may be seen as baby steps toward permanent ceasefire, but this seems quite optimistic, especially given Israel’s posture. It is quite possible that the nOPV2 vaccine is largely being done for public relations reasons...

..Moreover, this is useful to distract from the failure of the UN to stop Israel’s carnage. Most especially the US-dominated UN Security Council has refused to implement orders from the International Court of Justice and virtually all states — with the notable exceptions of South Africa and Nicaragua — have failed in responsibilities under the Genocide Convention. The General Assembly has failed to take meaningful action using “Uniting for Peace”...

..Perhaps most ominously however, it may be problematic to give attenuated oral polio vaccine to a population that is immunocompromised — which most certainly includes the Palestinians in Gaza. They desperately need food and clean water and basic medical care. A host of diseases are ravaging Gaza and reportedly, 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A. From Options for Poliomyelitis Vaccination in the United States: “Those in whom OPV is contraindicated include individuals with immunodeficiency disorders…The risk of VAPP [Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis] in immunodeficient children is 3,000 times that in normal children.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-wanted-disease-genocide-gaza-agreeing-polio-vaccine/5866944

Expand full comment
62 more comments...

No posts