David Bedein

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David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

HUDNA” -WINKED: Mistranslation of an Arabic term which does not connote “cease fire”

Over the past few weeks, almost all of the western media have mistranslated the term "hudna" to mean a "ceasefire". A "hudna" connotes a respite...

Security Guarantees for Israel from the US – Remember the Sinai, 50 Years Ago

The Baker report, mandates that Israel... "Return the Golan to Syria, with US security guarantees to Israel" Exactly fifty years ago, Israel took the Sinai...

‘Calm’ Gives Terror Organization Leaders No Fear Of Harm

Brig. Gen. Baidetz said that because of the cease-fire, the main center of terrorist activity has moved to Judea and Samaria. "They try to perpetrate terror attacks all the time. They prepare car bombs. There was also an intention to establish a laboratory to manufacture high trajectory fire weapons, but our troops discovered it," he said.

Iraqi Army Seeks To Improve Marksmanship

--Officials said the army would be provided snipers to most units. This would deploy a marksman on a roof to target insurgents and their commanders.The marksmanship course was said to be difficult and selective, demanding the striking of targets at ranges of up to 600 meters. Officials said the majority of students did not complete training, which included a 10-kilometer march as well as firing at pop-up targets.--Palestinian Authority Continued To Smuggle Into Gaza--Saudis Crack Down On al-Qaida--Iran Has $3 Trillion Worth Of Energy

Reviewing The U.N.’s Resolutions Against Israel

--An Israeli Foreign Ministry official said Saturday night, "This is a resolution that adds no positive value to peace in the Middle East. The U.N., which was established in 1946, accepted responsibility immediately for the Israeli-Arab conflict, failed in its mission to bring peace here, among other things, because of unilateral resolutions of this kind. The Palestinians enjoy an automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly, and every year they pass this resolution." --The U.N.'s Double Standard

Did Condoleezza Rice Commit A Felony By Offering Weapons To A Terror Organization?

"Oh warrior brothers, this is a nation that will never be broken, it is a revolution that will never be defeated. This is a...

Did Rice Commit A Felony By Offering Weapons To A Terror Organization?

The Bulletin asked the US State Department if Rice would ask Abbas to instruct his security forces to try and stop the rocket attacks and whether Abbas would disarm Al Aksa Brigades. The answer: "No Comment."Despite the assumption that Abbas is too weak to disband the Al Aksa Brigades, Abbas maintains direct control over at least 45,000 members of a dozen or so security forces in the Gaza Strip. This is in addition to thousands of gunmen and activists belonging to the Fatah, which Abbas also chairs. Rice, eager to bring down the Hamas government, also offered on Thursday to continue to arm Abbas and his Fatah party with 6,000 rifles.

U.S. Pressured Israel To Halt Missile Strikes On Palestinians

"(Prime Minister) Olmert was first told of the cease-fire proposal when he came to Washington earlier this month," the official said. "Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Olmert and said she expected an end to Israeli military operations."

Covering JFK’s Funeral: More than Four Decades Later

When you undergo a traumatic experience, especially at a young age, you remember finite details of that experience for the rest of your life....

Iran Obtains Sam Systems From Russia

--The sources said that, with the expanded TOR project, Iran has become the No. 3 client of Russia, following China and India. In a separate development, the Interfax news agency reported that Russian Atomic Energy Agency director Sergei Kiriyenko plans to visit Tehran on Dec. 11 to discuss additional cooperation--Saudis Launch $60B Modernization Plan