Our agency will now use its two rooms and two computers at Beit Agron to organize a new media response network to encourage people to respond in real time to the denigration of Israel, as it will appear on the international media in the weeks and months to come.

Our agency gets press clippings about Israel in real time from around the world every day which our media responders can react to.

The idea: to communicate directly with reporters, to counter the media campaign against Israel that has been spawned by The Jewish Voice for Peace

http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Our offices will encourage “media responders” to use our agency’s “tendentiousness test” as a basis to challenge seemingly one-sided reporting.[1]

Prediction:The professional effort to defameIsrael will gain momentum when casualties are incurred by children in Gaza.

Our reporter in Gaza who covers UNRWA- which controls 1.2 million of the 1.7 million residents of Gaza, conveys the following scenario:

422 UNRWA schools in Gaza- solidly under the control of Hamas[2] have prepared pupils in sophisticated training in the use of light weapons[3]


Campers in the UNRWA Khan Yunis refugee camp show off their military skills to visiting Hamas activists

Well trained and martyr- motivated UNRWA pupils will rush IDF soldiers with light weapons, in order to foster “Shahidim”- young martyrs who will kill IDF troops and die as Shahidim in the process.

In that context, Arab media pros have prepared 500 “you tube” profiles of UNRWA pupils.

Should any of these UNRWA pupils die as martyrs, the “you tube” profiles of each dead Gaza pupil will be shared with the world media.

This approach is reminiscent of the systematic PLO placement of child stone throwers on the front lines that the PLO used in 1988.[4] and the overall media strategy that the PLO has used over the past generation.[5]

The current situation provides an opportunity to initiate an expose and reform of UNRWA – as an agency that indoctrinates UNRWA pupils with the uncompromising idea of the “right of return” through the “armed struggle” to liberate Palestine and the villages that they lost in 1948 that are not “occupied” by Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beer Sheva, Sderot and more[6]

And that provides the motivation to fire on Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beer Sheva, Sderot and all the other Arab villages “lost” in 1948.

[1] TENDENTIOUSNESS CHART
http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1036&q=1

[2] Hamas takeover of UNRWA
http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4698&q=1
http://israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/UNRWAschoolsinGaza.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/449ykjl

[3] Hamas summer camps in Gaza Strip
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20373

[4] Daoud Kuttab, “Profile of the Stone throwers,”

The Journal of Palestine Studies 67 (1988): 14-24. M. Daoud Kuttab, “Profile of the Stonethrowers,” 18. 15.
http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?href=issue&jid=1&iid=67

[5] Why the Palestinians are Winning the Media War
http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1524&q=1

[6] Teaching “The Right of Return” in UNRWA Schools
http://israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/RightofReturninUNRWASchools.pdf

Support for the work of our agency can be rendered:
http://israelbehindthenews.com/donations.html

People who would like to join the new “media response network”;
ctrforneareastpolicyresearch@gmail.com

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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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