The New York Sun was virtually the only news outlet in North America to cover the scandal that the State Dept blocked the GAO from issuing is report on the PA and UNRWA school books

https://israelbehindthenews.com/mystery-grows-over-why-a-study-of-palestinian-school-books-is-being-kept-secret-from-congress/17459/

On June 4, 1019, the GAO director sent me a personal note that the GAO report was officially released, which affirmed what our agency had been reporting for 18 years, ever since the PA began to issue its new school books, which is that the State Department and US AID lied to the US Congress when it issued false reports that the US had issued a peace curriculum to supplement the PA and UNRWA war indoctrination curriculum.

https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-448

BACKGROUND: With the genesis of the nascent Palestinian Ministry of Education, the Center for Near East Policy Research, which I direct, took upon itself the responsibility to examine attitudes to war and peace which appear in Palestinian Authority schoolbooks used by the PA and UNRWA, ever since the PA issued its new school books in August 2000

We gained access to new PA school books after I politely asked permission of PLO leader Yassir Arafat to examine these texts.

Arafat, who always reminded the world that he was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, assured me that new PA textbooks would promote peace and reconciliation.

And on August 1, 2000, on the very day that the first new PA school books were first issued, I met with the Nayim Abu Hummus PA Minister of Education at the PA Ministry of Education  Abu Hummus sent me to the PA school book stores, with Arafat’s permission, to purchase the fist PA school books published by the PA.

Ever since , our staff has met with all three subsequent PA ministers of education,  with the authorization of the PA, we wound up buying all 364 PA schoolbooks issued by the PA and UNRWA

We then commissioned Dr. Arnon Groiss, a 42 year veteran of the Voice of Israel Arab Department to examine the PA school books.

And over the past 19 years, all 364 texts were examined and found to be devoid of any education for either peace or co-existence.

However, the US State Department and its conduit, US AID, issued annual reports in which they cited the PA/UNRWA peace curriculum which does not exist, and presented these reports to annual AIPAC policy conferences, and would not allow the Center for Near East Policy Research to present its reports.

As recently as March 26, 2019 the Center for Near East Policy Research showed up at AIPAC with its full complement of experts on PA/UNRWA education.

An AIPAC told me colleague that it would not allow us to present our material at AIPAC

Now we have been vindicated.

Will AIPAC change its policy?

Time will tell. Peruse our site and you will learn more about PA/UNRWA “education”.

www.israelbehindthenews.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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