A friend from the US sent an inquiry to our agency:

Why does the government ​of Israel ​ not do what we do?

Let’s look at the situation in a dispassionate manner.

The government of Israel decided,  in 1993, to allow the PLO to establish their own education system, together with UNRWA. ​That policy is still in place.​

​A peace curriculum offered to the PLO was rejected.

Instead, the PA/UNRWA education system, implemented in 2000, ​trains the next generation to obliterate Israel, while demonizing Jews and glorifying those who murder Jews. http://israelbehindthenews.com/israel-and-jews-in-palestinian-authority-pa-schoolbooks-used-in-schools-run-by-the-the-pa-hamas-and-unrwa-de-legitimization-demonization-advocacy-of-violent-struggle-rather-than-peace-of-jiha/13817/

​We have also ​film​ed their schools.

http://www.cfnepr.com/205640/%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D

The government of Israel nurtures that PA/UNRWA education system, refusing to ask donor nations to place reasonable conditions on their aid to these schools.

If the reader thinks that I am wrong, ask any Israeli government policy maker on any level of authority why Israel does not ask this of donor nations.

The government of Israel has instead adopted the idea of “economic peace”, with the stated reason that if and when ​​prosperity on the other side, then the other side will want peace.

The real story is that economic deals with the business world of the Palestinian Authority are extremely profitable to the burgeoning Israeli corporate sector, which now exports 30 billion shekels of products each year to the PA.

The 800 trucks of Israeli merchandise sold each day to Gaza – which the government of Israel will tell you is humanitarian aid – provides the Israeli corporate world with cash from Hamas run corporations who benefit from their excess of cash plundered from humanitarian aid and used to bolster a luxury economy in Gaza.

The Israel civil administration nurtures Arab wealth in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, while helping more than 40 countries to provide “humanitarian” aid for health and welfare, with no transparency whatsover.

All requests the government of Israel to demand that donors ask that the PA/UNRWA education system be stripped of a war curriculum run by terror groups have fallen on deaf ears.

Therefore, we ​must work to provide the Knesset, the US Congress and the public at large with the facts at hand, so that Israeli government policy can be challenged.

This past July , our agency brought experts on PA/UNRWA education to the staff of US Middle East Subcommittee of the US Foreign Affairs Committee after the US State Department issued an official report to Congress that there was no problem with the PA/UNRWA school books and after the Israeli government would not say anything.

Two weeks ago, that Congressional committee accepted our report, over the objections of the US State Department.

Now there is legislation proposed by Rep. Ileana Ros-leightnen to condition future aid to the PA and UNRWA on a reform of the PA/UNRWA school system, to insist that their schools curriculum be devoid of terror incitement.

Our task will to make sure that the Israeli government does not block this new legislation, as it has done before.

Yesterday, following a “kill the Jews” rally at the US-funded UNRWA Shuafat school in Jerusalem, two students, age 12 and 13, strolled over to the nearest train stop and boarded the Jerusalem Light Rail and tried to stab Jews to death.

That is what must be stopped: schools which incite children to murder.

However, at a hearing at the Knesset Education Committee two weeks ago, a representative of the government of Israel testified that he government of Israel, as a matter of policy, will simply not supervise the UNRWA schools.

You have a choice: to support the government of Israel policy to accept schools that organize and encourage premeditated murder of Jews, or to help us to upset that policy with a carefully thought out program to reform UNRWA and the PA as a condition to receiving aid.

​​http://israelbehindthenews.com/the-unrwa-reform-initiative/

​The time has come to challenge the policy of the UNRWA schools in Jerusalem, where 42% of Jerusalem Arab students study.

This is where much of the incitement is coming from.

​Most people assume that a child who learns at a UN school where the theme is PEACE STARTS HERE will be learning the art of Mother Teresa.

B’vracha,

DAVID

 

David Bedein

Director

Israel Resource News Agency

Center for Near East Policy Research

Beit Agron

37 Hillel Street, Suite 105-106

Jerusalem 94581 Israel

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  1. There is something missing in your article, David: An explanation of the all Israeli government’s reaction to incitment by the PA. We learned from our ministers ever since the Rabin killing that words kill. Aperently they believe that words kill only when uttered in Hebrew and only in the accent of Yarmulka wearers.

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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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