For My Daughter to Read At Auschwitz: Bedein v. UNRWA

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10461

What I write today is a sealed letter for our almost 17 year old Meira to take with her on her high school trip to Auschwitz in three weeks.

She is to to open the letter after she has seen the camps.

That letter explains why she does not see never sees much of her father, because my time is taken, trying to prevent the ascension to power of those of our Arab neighbors who would seek to impose yet a Fourth Reich upon the Jews.

I have spent the past week overseeing an Arab TV crew, by remote control, who cover an UNRWA-aided summer camp nearby where the children are being taught to take back their homes lost in 1948, by brute force, and to kill the Jews who took their homes from them.

Indoctrination, paid for by western democracies, is explicit.

Take a look at the web site that they work from:

www.PalestineRemembered.com, which enables UNRWA-aided camp residents to locate the homes of their grandparents and to see who is living there now.

Putting an end to this system, which operates openly, twenty minutes from our home, represents a full time endeavor.

Fortunately, with training in mental health work and as a seasoned MSW, this is the proper preparation needed to cope with an insane situation.

While the world around us goes about their middle class suburban business, there is a seething reality which too many people choose to ignore. It is our task to bring that reality to the attention of the people so that they will learn and act, without any denial.

The message to our children involves a new understanding of “Never Again”.

“Never Again” means never again to ignore the reality of an entity whose “raison d’etre” involves the genocide of Jews.

UNRWA’s spokesman contacted Arutz Sheva and sent the following response:

The article by David Bedein “A Sealed Letter to My Daughter to Read At Auschwitz” makes the baseless allegation that UNRWA, a UN humanitarian organization, is seeking “to impose yet a (sic) Fourth Reich upon the Jews” and that UNRWA’s “raison d’etre involves the genocide of Jews”. No evidence is produced for this staggeringly ignorant claim beyond a vague association with a website called Palestine Remembered with which UNRWA has no relationship whatsoever, neither is any evidence produced to prove this. UNRWA requests that this rejoinder is published in full pointing out the groundlessness of Mr Bedein’s allegations, the shoddiness of this politically motivated journalism, that the article is taken down and that a retraction and an apology are published.

David Bedein did not let this pass unchallenged and wrote this rebuttal to UNRWA’s denial:

UNRWA does not develop Palestinian curriculum nor does UNRWA develop Palestinian web sites.

UNRWA hosts the education system that Palestinian school children learn from.

UNRWA hosts the education systems provided by the entities where UNRWA operates – in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority.

The producers of the new UNRWA film, Palestinian Refugee Policy: From Despair to Hope note that the website, www.PalestineRemembered.com. represents one of the most sophisticated educational tools used in the education of Palestinian school children who learn in the UNRWA summer camps.

www.PalestineRemembered.com is taught to UNRWA Palestinian pupils in the context of the “Right of Return” curriculum that dominates UNRWA Palestinian schools, summer camps and youth clubs.

www.PalestineRemembered.com enables UNRWA residents, young and old, to identify the current status of villages from 1948 which no longer exist, to determine who lives there now, in preparation for their planned “return”.

At a time when maps and “keys” that promote the “right of return” decorate the offices of UNRWA directors of UNRWA facilities, it would be unusual for an UNRWA official to distance himself from a web site that has gained such popularity in the UNRWA camps, because of its promotion of “the right of return”.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.102484939819444.3660.100001738148831&type=1 Pix: David Bedein holds a picture on Israel TV of a gigantic “key hole” with a two ton key on top of it, next to the UNRWA office at the entrance to the UNRWA refugee camp in Aida, in Bethlehem, 200 meters away from Rachel’s Tomb.

UNRWA Spokesman responds to Bedein’s answer:

The assertion that www.PalestineRemembered.com is taught by UNRWA is completely groundless and Bedein produces no evidence to prove this. Bedein claims that UNRWA “works from” this website. This is false. <><>

Revealingly, he says that there is an UNRWA Summer Camp “nearby” where children are being taught to take back their homes. If he had proof that it was being taught “inside” a UNRWA camp not “nearby” he would have produced it. There is a vast difference between “inside” and “nearby”.

UNRWA can be held responsible for what happens in its summer camps, but not for what happens nearby. And to base on this falsehood the staggering assertion that the UNRWA’s “raison d’etre is involved in a genocide against the Jews” is wildly misleading.

The phrase “UNRWA camps” is misleading and meaningless. There is no such thing as “an UNRWA camp”. UNRWA does not run refugee camps but facilities such as schools and clinics within them. UNRWA is not responsible for what happens outside its facilities but imposes strict standards of neutrality within its facilities. An area outside a camp for which UNRWA is not responsible would include that sited by Bedein; ie an area “in Bethlehem, 200 meters away from Rachel’s Tomb”. To see details of UNRWA’s neutrality work inside its facilities and with its staff and donors, go to: http://www.unrwa.org/userfiles/2011033075942.pdf

The phrase “UNRWA residents” is likewise meaningless. As there is no such thing as “an UNRWA camp”, logically, there is no such thing as an “UNRWA resident”.

Arutz Sheva readers can expect a response from Bedein later today…

(David Bedein discussed this issue on Israel National Radio. See below)

A7 Radio’s “Behind the Scene” with David Bedein.

Segment 1: The Voice of Reason?

Segment 2: Suddenly, there are two distinct societies in Israel: Those who live on fixed public incomes, and the burgeoning corporate sector.