Having been to Jerusalem briefly a couple of times and developed an interest I am sympathetic to some of the challenges of a situation that could have been designed to ensure eternal conflict.
The Israeli government does seem to lead with the chin sometimes, but there is more to this story than the headline, as the Guardian story reveals. Not that I expect to understand it at all. The more I try to understand Israel and the Palestine question the more I know how much I don't know. What is the right thing to do is rarely obvious, but Israel's self-interest must surely be in vaccinating as widely as possible, regardless, bearing in mind how vaccination works to protect a population?
In the UK, I see the so-called vaccine calculators are just extrapolating raw numbers and because of the Christmas holiday presumably, my date has gone out by about 3 months to June.
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