For the past three months, I have asked the US government a fundamental question which has generated no response from the US government, despite numerous requests from the US press offices at the US embassy in Tel Aviv, the US consulate in Jerusalem, the White House Press Office, the press office of the National Security Council, and the press office of the US State Department.

That question remains: What is the reaction of the US to the finalized version of the new Palestinian State Constitution?

Our news agency obtained the ratified Arabic version of the Palestinian State Constitution from the Vatican and obtained verification as to its authenticity from Nabil Shaath, the PA foreign minister who chaired the committee that authored that constitution.

The PA State constitution, whose Arabic and English versions appear on the home page of our web site, www.israelbehindthenews.com, fosters a Teheran-style state based on Islamic law, devoid of religious freedom, human rights and civil liberties, while legislating the Palestinian refugee “right of return” to all Arab villages lost in 1948.

Meanwhile, that PA constitution places authority in the hands of its president, not in its prime minister. The current president of the PA is Yassir Arafat, whom the US administration has declared persona non grata.

All this occurs at a time when the US considers massive aid to the nascent Palestinian Arab entity, which would mean that the US would aids and abet the genesis of a totalitarian Islamic state…

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David Bedein
David Bedein
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.

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