The decision of the government of Israel, announced in March 2011 and reiterated n August 2012, to place incitement in PA education on the agenda of Middle East negotiations,lacked any communication to the foreign governments that fund PA education, all of whom consistently claim that the Israeli government has never asked them to condition help to PA schools and UNRWA on.a change in a curriculum.that promotes the armed struggle to liberate Palestine under the banner of the “right of return”, at a time when PA school books and PA educational TV explicitly praise those who murder Jews. http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/RightofReturninUNRWASchools.pdf

The question remains: Will the government of Israel ask foreign governments and their consuls in Jerusalem to attach conditions to funding PA education?

A case in point: The US is the largest funder of PA education and UNRWA, via US AID.

When our agency wrote to US AID about the curriculum of PA education, US AID wrote back to our agency that US AID will not examine the PA educational curriculum as part of the US AID funding process.

At the recent AIPAC conference, our agency met Mara Rudman, the US State Department official who oversees US AID to the UNRWA and Palestinian Authority education.

We asked Rudman about conditioning US AID funds to PA education and UNRWA to not promote the armed struggle to liberate Palestine under the banner of the “right of return”.

Rudman responded that Israel had never asked that US AID to condition funds the PA or UNRWA on a change in their curriculum..

Rudman insisted that she was always encouraged by what she described as the “warm support” that US AID received from the head of the Israel Civil Administration, General Dangot for allocations that US AID provided for the educational system of UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority. Rudman went on to say that Gen. Dangot had described the PA and UNRWA schools as a “responsible source of moderation”.

Will the Israeli government convey a different message to Mara Rudman of US AID?

Or will General Dangot continue to thank US AID for funding the PA /UNRWA schools of war?

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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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