AUTHOR,  UNRWA; ROADBLOCK TO PEACE (2014)  & GENESIS OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY (2017)

The icon of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, dreamed of a “normal” Jewish state, 

However, the term  “normalization” does not ​​exist in either law​ or diplomacy. 

Nonetheless, Jews are thrilled to hear that Israel’s enemies are now considering a policy of normalization. 

That is because Israel’s adversaries have conducted a genocidal war throughout Israel’s history. 

A breath of fresh air never hurts.

The Arab League of Nations, whose 1945 charter calls for liquidation of the Jews in Palestine, launched a total war in 1948 which continues to this day.  The same goes for the Palestine Liberation Organization, which in 1964 also issued a charter of total annihilation of the Jews of Palestine, a covenant in force to this day. 

Although Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with Israel, while Syria and Lebanon agreed to an armistice with the Jewish state, Saudi Arabia, kingpin of the Arab League, has never agreed to any armistice or any peace whatsoever with the Jews. 

The Palestine Liberation Organization signed a peace treaty with Israel on September 13, 1993, Yet the Fatah, the leading entity of the PLO, would not ratify that agreement.  Now news reports now have it that the Saudis and the PLO, operating under the nascent Palestinian Authority, are ready to normalize with the Jews.

The time has come to take Arabs at their word in their call for normalization.

What, however, would real normalization look like? 

Begin with four steps:

​1. Remove PA texts and teachers who advocate war against Jews. It would fly in the face of normalization if the PA were to maintain its war curriculum against the Jews.

 https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/?s=GROISS

  1. Launch an effort to resettle descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war who now dwell in 59 “temporary” UNRWA refugee camps  under the  pretense of the “right of return” to pre-1948 villages from 1948 that no longer exist, . The time has come to remove the “right of return”   roadblock to normalization. 

https://israelbehindthenews.com/2019/09/27/a-solution-for-five-million-descendants-from-arab-refugees-from-1948-who-still-dwell-in-59-unrwa-refugee-camps/

  1. Repeal the unprecedented PA statute: Murder a Jew, get a salary for life.

How can there be any pretense of normalization, so long as the unprecedented incentive for murdering Jews remains on the PA law books. https://jcpa.org/paying-salaries-terrorists-contradicts-palestinian-vows-peaceful-intentions/

  1. Remove PA maps which delete Israel. The PA has recently replaced the names all Jewish communities with names of Arab villages in all texts used in the schools of the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA. https://israelbehindthenews.com/2022/09/24/revealing-maps-the-palestinian-vision-as-taught-in-unrwa-schools/

Normalization would necessitate the presentation of maps in all schools which would depict all UN members of good standing, including Israel. 

These four steps provide the genesis of real normalization 

At this point in time, these reasonable steps are not on the agenda of normalization. 

 

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  1. The core at the Middle East ‘conflict’ is about anti-Jewish bigotry

    * The intolerance started mainly since Sheikh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi wrote a hateful poem in Falastin newspaper on November 8, 1913 mixing Quranic ideas with old anti Semitic stereotypes (leading to the 1914 closure of the newspaper by the Turks for inciting race-hatred). Then by Haj Amin al-Husseini in the 1920s. The Mufti also chose to “believe” in ancient blood libel.

    * The brunt of the victims in 1920, 1921 and especially in Hebron 1929 massacre, were non-Zionist pious-Jews.

    * March 1933, within weeks of Hitler’s coming to power, the Mufti already approached German’s council and offered alliance.

    * May 1933, Falastin newspaper glorified Hitler as “noble” and justified his persecution of the Jews.

    * September 1933, Eissa Bendak, editor of the radical bi-weekly Sawt Al Shaab has left for Paris to receive instructions from a group of Germans and Arabs on “conducting Nazi propaganda” in Palestine.

    * Ibrahim a-Shanti’s 1934 founded the newspaper ‘Ad Difa’a’ was very pro Hitler.
    (Asides from the instances he had to moderate his tone under British censorship and threat of banning).

    * May 1935, when delegates returned from an Arab youth conference in Haifa, their train to Afula bore a swastika chalked on one of the coaches with an Arabic inscription beneath it reading “Germany over All.”

    * June 1935, Arabs in Haifa form Nazi club, called ‘Red Moon,’ well funded by the Nazis. “Groups of brown-clad Arab youths are now organized.”

    * 1936, Grand Mufti with Jamal al-Husseini established the Futuwwa modeled on Hitler Youth.

    * 1936-1937, Hitler’s book Mein Kampf – a best sellers among radical Arabs in Palestine.

    * Jan 1937, Istiqlal’s Auni Abd al-Hadi told Nazi magazine: “Arabs Like the Nazis.”

    * 1937, ahead of the Bludan conference, the Grand Mufti, (after Nashashibi left the Arab Higher Committee) sent a warning (officially by the Arab Higher Committee) to other Arab countries (including Lebanon) in the Middle East not to accept any Jews. The Mufti sent also a hate booklet to the conference. It was used in his 1943 recruitment of SS Bosnian Muslims.

    * 1937, Walter Doehle, German consul in Jerusalem: ‘Palestinian Arabs in all social strata have great sympathies for the new Germany and its Führer…’

    * September, 1938, around 100 representatives from Arab Palestine at Nazi conference in Nuremberg.

    * May 1939, Istiqlal’s Auni ‘abd al-Hadi, meets Nazi officials in Berlin.

    * Hitler’s “Voice of the Arabs” radio, started with Yunis Behari, and was especially reinforced by the Mufti after 1941. His hate broadcasts from Berlin, in which he also called on all Arabs to “kill the Jews wherever they are – this is pleasing to Allah”.

    * A survey by Mr. Sari Sakanini in Palestine in February 1941 found that 88 percent of the Arabs supported the Nazis.

    * 1941, together with other Arabs, (including from Palestine: Akram Zuaiter and Darwish al-Miqdadi), instigate to the Farhud massacre that happened in June 1941 in Iraq, where some say even a thousand Jews died. There was gang rape and children were thrown into the water in front of their parents.

    * The married immoral Mufti spent the war years 1941-1945 in Berlin, surrounded by German women and received a lot of money.

    * 1939-1944, the Nazi periodical in Arabic, “Barid al Sharq” (The Orient Post, by Kamal al Din al Galal) which included contributors, Shakib Arslan, the Mufti and Younes Bahri.

    * 1942 – The mufti plans to build crematoria, like Auschwitz, for the Jews of the Middle East, in the Dotan Valley.

    * 1943, the mufti with Rashid Ali al-K
    Gaylani, accompanied by Nazi officials, visits the Trebbin concentration camp. In addition to eyewitnesses, another visit to the third Auschwitz – “Monowitz”.

    * 1943 between the spring and October 29: for six months the mufti urged the Nazis to bomb cities with Jewish settlements, especially Tel Aviv. In addition, he suggested carrying out the attack on November 2 – the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

    * By the way, not only the mufti worked with the Nazis. There were like 200 Arabs with him, mainly from Palestine.

    * After the war, the mufti won the jubilation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
    The notorious anti-Nazi Johann von Leers (Omar Amin) was accepted in Egypt by the Mufti and he became the political adviser of the Department of Information under Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. He also helped Nazi Ernst-Wilhelm Springer escape to Egypt.

    * 1946, although the Mufti “was not allowed to enter Palestine, the Arab League now installed him as the new leader of the Palestinian Arabs with an annual budget of £10,000.”

    * The mufti’s student, Ahmad Shukeiri (who helped the mufti’s gang kill his brother Dr. Anwar Shukeri on June 8, 1939) and his accomplice Jamal al-Husseini, both justified the Holocaust in 1946.

    * 1947, Arabs recruit ex Nazis to fight the Jews. All in all. Some research showed, around 1,000 of them.

    * 1947, Issa Nakhleh would work for the Mufti in the Arab Higher Committee, then agitating in Argentina, then coming back to the US and spread propaganda for decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s) with neo-Nazis.

    * 1947-1948, Arab leadership including the Mufti, told the Arabs of Palestine to leave the land till “victory.”

    * The Arab League worked with Neo Nazis on South America in the 1960s. And the Palestinian terrorists were linked with Neo Nazis in the 1960s such as with François Genoud [Genaud], the PLO linked with Nazis or/and neo-Nazis in the 1970s-1980s, among them: Otto Ernst Remer, L’Oeuvre Francaise, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Udo Albrecht, Willi Pohl / Voss (pseudonym E. W. Pless).

    * Ask yourself, had all the Israelis been ethnicaly Arab or most of them Muslim, would there then even be a conflict? = “Arab racism!”

    * Returning to a historic homeland has nothing to do with “racism” and the 2001-Durban Hitlerist propaganda especially by Arab Lawyers Union and others, showed the bitter irony of racists masked as “anti-Racist”.

    * One can not detach bigotry from Ahmad Shukairy’s invention of the “apartheid” false-analogy in 1961 (a little bit over a year after he had promoted a neo-Nazi group and quoting the Sep.16.1962 New York Times article which in fact states the Nazi nature of the group), or of Omar Shakir’s anti-Israel activities since 2010 and abusing the HRW group in 2021 for this propaganda in falsifying or misrepresenting facts and via changing the Apartheid definition to fit his propaganda.

    * Praising Hitler, denying the Holocaust and creating (hateful, racially motivated) fake comparisons to clashes and security measures are all happening at once.

    * If anti-Israel bigoted propaganda had any truth in it, then why do the Israelis keep going into trouble, risking its soldiers lives, and even inventing measures only to minimize Arab casualties when going after terrorists?
    How much does the Arab world know about preferential treatment for Arabs over Jews, including in courts’ decisions, academia, employment and more?

    * If the Arab leadership or anti-Israel “activists” were worried for Arab lives more than defaming Israel – then, when was the last time it condemned the use of civilians as human shields, school, places of worship, or shooting from densely populated areas?

    * The 113 UNRWA teachers between 2015-2022 engaging in pro terror and many in anti-Semitism, including pro Hitler propaganda.

    * By the way, the TikTok (since April 2021) attacks by many Arabs and getting thousands of feedback from other Arabs are attacks against pious Jews in Jerusalem who (most) are not Zionist and even refuse to serve in the IDF. The same is the, (past and present), anti-Semitic cartoons in Arab media often of clearly visible such pious Jews. Worst is, the terror massacres specifically targeting such communities in various cities. Which again, shows the underlying ‘Arab racism’ motivation behind it all, in principle.

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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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