On May 22nd, 2008, Adv. Yosef Fuchs, a member of the Israel Bar Association and a founder of the Israel Legal Forum, dispatched a strong letter to Israel Attorney General Menachem Mazoz, in which Fuchs demanded that Prime Minister Olmert be investigated for a felony, since Olmert announced negotiations with Syria which would involve land transfer to a nation at war with Israel, without the necessary legally required Israeli government approval to launch any such negotiations.

Fuchs cited the Israeli legal statute from 1978 which forbids any Israeli citizen from discussing transfer of sovereign Israeli territory with any nation at war with Israel.

Fuchs noted that the provisions in this law also forbid any member of the Israeli government from launching negotiations concerning transfer of land to a nation at war with Israel without the express approval of the government of Israel.

Fuchs noted that Israel, unlike totalitarian states, operates with a parliamentary system that has created laws, procedures, checks and balances which oversee the operation of the Israeli government, so as to prevent arbitrary actions of Israeli leaders who may try to act without government sanction.

In that precise context, Adv. Fuchs has asked that Attorney General Mazuz issue an immediate directive to Prime Minister Olmert to cease and desist from any negotiations with Syria until and unless Olmert gains formal government consent.

Reached at his desk for comment, Adv. Fuchs commented that Olmert does not currently have a majority of government cabinet members who would favor any such negotiations with Syria that would involve Israeli land concessions to Syria.

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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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