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Melanie Phillips April 21st 2021
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A reliable sign that
someone has managed to puncture one of the BBC’s doctrinal falsehoods is when
an interviewer is sufficiently rattled to keep interrupting.
These theatrics
occurred last evening on BBC TV’s Newsnight, when anchor Emily Maitlis grilled
Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s new ambassador to the UK.Hotovely, is highly controversial because of her
profile as an Israeli religious nationalist.
The Newsnight item
was ostensibly about what Britain might learn from Israel’s “green” vaccination
passport.Maitlis noted concerns that the introduction of a British vaccination
passport might widen social divisions. Then she said : But in Israel, where the
Palestinian population has not been inoculated at anywhere near the rate of the
Israeli population, there’s plenty of concern about the passport’s ability to
widen the gulf.
Subsequently noting
Israel’s impressive achievement in getting nearly 60 per cent of its population
fully vaccinated, she nevertheless added:
…but the roll-out to
Palestinian citizens has been much slower at 0.5 per cent.
Woa! Stop right
there! She appeared to be suggesting that Israel was discriminating against its
own Arab citizens by vaccinating them at a slower rate. This is totally untrue.
Israeli Arabs have been offered the vaccination in exactly the same way as
every other Israeli citizen. Maitlis
seemed to be conflating Israeli Arabs, who are Israeli citizens, with
Palestinian Arabs who are not Israeli citizens but inhabit those disputed
territories beyond Israel. Under the Oslo Accords, their health needs are
delivered by the Palestinian Authority.
Hotovely proceeded
to hole other falsehoods below the waterline. She pointed out that the Palestinian
Authority hadn’t wanted Israel to provide the Palestinian Arabs with a
vaccination programme. The PA had instead wanted to provide it for them itself,
and had done just that by purchasing doses of the Russian Sputnik vaccine.
This unanswerable
fact so wrong-footed Maitlis that she pulled out what she presumably believed
was her killer point — that six Israeli ultra-leftist NGOs had said Israel had
a “legal, moral and ethical” obligation to deliver Covid vaccinations to the Palestinians.
Hotovely kept her
cool and responded with the first of her two zingers of the evening. “Let me
ask you, Emily,” she said, “would you actually impose getting vaccines [on] the
leaders of the Palestinians? Would you actually say [they had to] accept
Israeli access and Israeli help? When they’re not interested?”
Maitlis started to
talk over her by robotically intoning “legal, moral and ethical obligation”.
Hotoveley,proceeded to drive her point home:
But you’re not
answering my question. My question is very simple. Can you impose receiving the
vaccine on populations [whose] leadership wants to be in charge of the
programme? You’re patronising the Palestinians.
Maitlis asked:
You’re telling me
that the Palestinians didn’t want to take up the vaccinations? Replied
Hotovely:
No no, they had
their own programme, they bought the Russian vaccine, they had a agreement with
the WHO and they wanted to run their own programme and I think we need to
respect that. And when they asked for Israel’s help, we were there to help.
With the collapse of
that line of attack, Maitlis switched to the presumed awfulness of both
Hotovely herself and the State of Israel that she represents.
So it was that an
item on the issue of vaccination passports found it necessary to accuse Israel
of having proposed last year to annex up to one-third of the “West Bank”; and
to accuse Hotovely, a former “settlements minister”, of being such a right-wing
religious extremist that her appointment as ambassador had provoked 2000
liberal British Jews to petition against it. Did she or did she not, demanded
Maitlis, support the “two-state solution”? To which Hotovely said how gratified
she had been by the warm response to her arrival from the Jewish community, and
calmly delivered her second zinger of the evening.
You cannot speak
about a formula when the Palestinians aren’t willing to sit and negotiate with
Israel. They’re not interested in any two-state solution.
From all of which we
might make two observations. The first is that this was an impressive debut
appearance by Tzipi Hotovely. She remained calm, factual and pleasant while
delivering facts that punctured the lies (and which many Brits will not have
heard before).The second is that, the
BBC seems to be taking its talking points not just from the Guardian, but also
now from extreme-leftist NGOs.
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