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So if we've talked about, you know, during the normal state of affairs within the sort of

healthcare system within Palestine, a lot of that is mediated through actually being able to

get out of these spaces that are heavily gatecapped by Israel into the Israeli health system

or into health facilities outside of Israel and Jordan, for example, like you were mentioning.

And one of the things that was very common, as you were saying, before the pandemic,

was these kinds of restrictions on imports and exports of essential medicines.

Basically, not only is there kind of an attack on the physical health infrastructure

within Palestine geographically, there are these other sort of restrictions layered on top

of it.

And part of what sort of always existed is the idea that while Palestine is in this kind

of perpetual freefall of health

disparities, that Israel has this very superior and sort of high-tech, precise health care system.

And I think this has been a sort of major PR moment. The pandemic has been a major PR moment for

the state of Israel in terms of how the data from its Pfizer vaccine trials was used globally to help

enthusiastically support efforts to quickly roll back restrictions in pursuit of a vaccine-only

strategy, I mean, I think the role that Israel as this kind of global health leader has played in the pandemic

has really become exaggerated outside of proportion.

And I'd love if we could take a second to sort of talk about both the reputation of Israel

as an international health technology and security power, but also how this know, how this regime of care and how control

of pharmaceuticals in particular is really key to their colonial occupation.

Yeah.

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