There was a word in my post. The word was elective.

Whilst avoiding the issue of lack of infrastructure and medical expertise in a country professionals try to leave not enter, Israel is where most Palestinians who can afford it go for healthcare.

Not that such concerns would interest neocons and their apologists.

Let me repeat. Every doctor under professional registration is obliged to treat where possible in an emergency and not refuse elective care on the basis of enemy. You can refuse elective on any normal basis, be it time, funding, clinical risk or whatever you wish, but not on the opinion or status of the presenting patient.

The Red Cross, Red Crescent, Medicine sans Frontier and many more rely on this in order to save lives in areas of conflict. No doctor likes the inability to travel or relocate. Israel as any other country wants recognition of its medical schools so will not risk compromising its relationship with international concordats.

I once gave evidence at a fitness to practice panel at GMC for a doctor from Kuwait practicing here who had, quite lawfully in Kuwait, attended at executions, which is fine if he didn't touch anything or interfere until confirming death but was not passive, giving the go ahead for the trap door when satisfied the rope was attached correctly. They struck him off, which led to his visa being revoked. (My evidence was confirming his local work for the PCT I chaired.)

The international registration concordat through The World Health Organisation is strongly and rigorously upheld. Talk of President Abbas surgery being odd given circumstances politically is not reflecting any reality. Not allowing access to the hospital in the first place is one thing, but no surgeon will compromise their registration, unless they are foolish, and the Israeli law supports that clause.

There is some bollocks on this thread at times....