[This article first appeared April 4 in the Jerusalem Post]

This week, Canadian Foreign Minister has announced that he will visit areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority to inquire as to how foreign aid funds are being spent.

While it would seem natural for the foreign minister of a respected democracy to ask for an accounting of how foreign funds are being spent by a nascent entity, Canada is the first government to officially engage in an accountability process with the fledgling Palestinian Authority.

Here is a suggested ten step process as to how the Canadian Foreign Minister, The Hon. John Baird, could conduct an inquiry into the accountability of funds administered by the Palestinian Authority

Step One: Enter a Palestinian Authority classroom. Examine the new PA curriculum whose focus revolves around preparation of a new generation to conquer all of Palestine. Most recently, the Center for Near East Policy Research dispatched a TV crew to follow the classrooms of Palestinian Authority schools that are located in UNRWA facilities and witnessed teachings which did not focus on peace or reconciliation.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

Translations of the new Palestinian Authority school books yielded the conclusion that they focused on a curriculum of “suspended war” http://israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs
/RightofReturninUNRWASchools.pdf.

Step Two: Peruse l news output of the PBC (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation) radio and TV. Follow the messages of Jihad conveyed by the PBC to the Palestinian Arab people, the PBC adulation of Palestinians who committed suicide attacks, and PBC news clips which laud attacks on Beer Sheva, Sderot, Ashkelon,and Ashdod, which PBC terms “illegal Jewish settlements”, since these Israeli cities which have been shelled by missiles are located on lands lost to the Arabs in 1948 – not 1967.

Step Three: Spend time in an UNRWA facility, where thousands of descendants of Arab refugees languish under the premise and promise of the “Right of Return”. While nearby Palestinian Authority urban areas flourish. Note how the new Palestinian city, Rawabi, built near teeming UNRWA refugee facilities, will not allow UNRWA camp residents to live in the new Palestinian city. Meanwhile, in August 2012, Hamas terror groups won their fourth consecutive election to take charge of the UNRWA trade union and the UNRWA teachers union in Gaza, Ask for a report on UNRWA Hamas cooperation.

Step Four: Peruse www.PalestineRemembered.com The “Right of Return” computer program that operates throughout the Palestinian Authority, which helps UNRWA residents to locate the villages of their grandparents from 1948 even though these towns no longer exist, to prepare them to realize their “right of return:.

Step Five Visit Palestinian Authority controlled mosques on Friday. Follow the incendiary message conveyed by the mosques that function under funding and control of the PA.

Step Six: Review all new official maps that are published by the Palestinian Authority, which show all of Palestine as the location of any future Palestinian state.

Step Seven: Visit the PA Security Force. Following the expectation that the PA Security Force would be engagedt o crush the Hamas, review reports of Hamas-Palestinian Authority cooperation. While the PA security force has worked with Israel on matters of petty crime,the PA will not take on Hamas. Moreover, the PA has no laws against money laundering for terror groups and PA statutes do not define any group as a terrorist organization.

General Yaakov Amidror, former head of the IDF’s Research and Assessment Division and currently serving as Security Adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu, observed that:

“There is a huge difference in the Palestinian view between law enforcement, which is seen as legitimate, and anti-terrorism, which is NOT seen as legitimate.”

Step Eight: Ask for an evaluation of the food distribution program in Gaza, which the Hamas regime in Gaza and UNRWA have been running. Funds are delivered in cash dollars at the Gaza crossing to UNRWA, once a month, in the amount of $13 million. How much funds are geared to the purchase of food? Does the Hamas regime siphon off some of the foreign aid cash for the purchase of munitions or for any other purpose? Why is there a demand for “cash delivery”? What follow up reports have been submitted to the donor countries on funds delivered to the UNRWA food distribution program?

Step Nine Review the published political program of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad, who has earned a reputation as a “moderate” and note Fayad’s endorsement of a Palestinian Jerusalem (no mention of East Jerusalem, but demand of the Palestinian “right of return” to villages from 1948 that no longer exist, and the demand to free all Palestinians in Israeli jails, ignoring the fact that this includes thousands of Palestinians who have been convicted of first degree murder in a court of law. Fayad’s paper “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State:Program of the Thirteenth Government – August 2009” Available on the net at:

http://www.geneva-accord.org/images/Offical%20Paper%20-%20
Program%20of%20the%20Thirteenth%20Government,%20August%202009.pdf

Step Ten: Review recent speeches of Palestinian leader Machmud Abbas, where Abbas himself conveys consistent praise for Palestinians who have murdered civilians. Review the telecast New Years speech of Abbas where he concludes his litany of praise for killers with a salute to the legacy of Hitler’s ally, Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem.

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  1. Excellent points! The chaotic Middle Eastern countries should receive financial support only when the funds are used for reforming their governments in the interest of true peace. The decades long talk of a ‘peace process’ has proven futile and the goal of a two-state solution with those who preach violence would add yet another terrorist apartheid state to the region. The Canadian government is to be lauded for its readiness to investigate funding to the PA and one who hope that other countries will emulate this as well.

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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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