This afternoon, I see a South African national visiting as a guest lecturer. As he is not an EU resident I charge him £40 for the privilege, though I do tell him that if he needs to be seen again within the next week I will not charge him further. Seems like a nice enough chap. Later I see one of my own patients positively stinking of alcohol, and offer him a "home detox", where he will take reducing doses of diazepam while he stops drinking, thereby avoiding the risks of the shakes, or worse, the DTs. But will he co-operate with the regime? They often don't, and I have my doubts this time too. But I have to give him the benefit of the doubt.
COMMENT
Even the Israelis are sounding a bit sheepish after the aid convoy raid- hence this whole thing can go down as a brilliant PR victory for the Palestinians. Pity it took the lives of a number of good, well intentioned civilians to achieve it, but thus is always the way in combating tyranny. What must happen now is for the world to boycott Israel, a la South Africa, severing economic, cultural and sporting ties unless and until the Palestinian people within "greater" Israel are afforded full and equal human rights with the Israelis. Only in this way can a lasting peace be found in this agonised region.
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