Monthly Archives: September 2018

Oslo at 25: A Personal View

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Perhaps the most important misperception about Oslo is that it is – or was – a peace process, a two-sided affair, a matter of give-and-take in which each side’s promises depended on fulfillment...

Oslo’s Betrayal

25 years to the day since the signing of the Oslo Accords, analyses abound on what went wrong with the historic agreement that was supposed to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some blame Palestinian leadership while...

Bringing down UNRWA

Coincidence played a part in getting the truth out about UNRWA: Hard work made it available. I happened to sit next to someone from Trump's transition team in December 2016 at a conference in Jerusalemn and...

כיצד הצליח חוקר אלמוני מירושלים לשכנע את ממשל טראמפ להפסיק את הסיוע לאונר”א?

https://www.facebook.com/channel10news/videos/285106108884714/?t=0 כיצד הצליח חוקר אלמוני מירושלים לשכנע את ממשל טראמפ להפסיק את הסיוע לאונר"א? ** אריק וייס על ארגון הסיוע לפליטים של האו"ם ששום מדינה אינה רוצה בו, אבל גם לא מוכנה להחליף אותו • שבת, 20:00,המגזין עם...

Israeli Experts: UNRWA Textbooks Draw Palestinian Children Toward Terrorism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyBaW0EwWvU President Trump recently cut funding to UNRWA, the UN body responsible for Palestinian refugees. While there has been uproar over that decision, critics of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) point to its...

What the AP Intelligence Correspondent Needs to Ask

David Bedein, Director. Susannah George, AP Intelligence and National Security Correspondent, this week published a feature “Trump administration cuts aid funding for Palestinian refugees”*, which overlooked two vital issues. First, that the US cutback to UNRWA...

Response to Jpost interview with the head of UNRWA

David Bedein Director Israel Resource News Agency Center for Near East Policy Research The interview conducted of UNRWA Director General Pierre Krähenbühl by Tova Lazaroff in the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 12, entitled "UNRWA HEAD APPEALS TO ARAB...

Annual accounting…writes Michael Kuttner

Well run businesses and enterprises undertake annual stocktaking in order to assess past performances, current achievements and future prospects. In the Jewish religious calendar the period from the week before Rosh Hashanah until at least...

Newest Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks for Grades 11 and 12

Sept. 9, 2018  In the New Year, The Center for Near East Policy Research has  again engaged the expertise of Dr. Arnon Groiss to examine and translate the newest Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks for Grades 11...

Peace Education Opportunity

For the past few months, ever since the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, the US government officials have been discussing what gesture the US could make to the Palestinian Arab people. "Peace Education" would...