Thanks to the quiet freeze on American funds to UNRWA*, Germany, which presents itself as a democratic power, is now the leading donor state of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which services descendants of Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war
* https://israelbehindthenews.com/2023/04/21/financial-crisis-in-unrwa-why/of

58% of the current UNRWA budget is allocated to schools which indoctrinate Arab children to make war on Jews.

Please see our new movie UNRWA at War * https://israelbehindthenews.com/2023/04/21/financial-crisis-in-unrwa-why/ and our new study of the active role of UNRWA in the current war https://israelbehindthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/p14-17.pdf

A recent tabulation of donations from UNRWA donor nations can be found here:

https://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help/government-partners/funding-trends

As such, Germany shoulders a responsibility to assure the people of Germany and the Jewish people that their money is not channeled in a non-peaceful direction. Yet, leading German government-funded foundations aid UNRWA with no conditions. https://israelbehindthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/German-Legacy-Under-Chancellor-Merkel.pdf

A straightforward way to accomplish the above is to check what the textbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority and used in UNRWA schools, say about the Israeli/Jewish “other” and about the issue of peace with that “other”.

More than 1,000 UNRWA texts have now been examined by three journalists with PhDs in Islamic Studies.

https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2024/05/E_114_24.pdf

It is imperative that an effort be made to provide this information in the German language.

Schoolbooks are the most revealing source of information regarding the values and aspirations a society seeks to instill in its youth.

Following a protracted state of war, these texts serve as a reliable indicator of the existence, or non-existence, of peace education.

The Oslo Accord signed by the State of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993 opened a new phase in the Middle East in which both parties were supposed to advance towards a peaceful solution of that war.

In 1994, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established by the PLO to rule the West Bank and the Gaza Strip which, until then, were fully administered by Israel.

The PA assumed most governmental powers in those areas, including education. In 2000, it started issuing its own schoolbooks in a process that lasted until 2006. A newer set of PA schoolbooks was published between the years 2016-2018.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the 1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants, which has been operating in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza (as well as in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon) since 1950, use the PA books in its schools. UNRWA, as a UN agency, is bound by the UN-endorsed principle of resolving all conflicts peacefully, as well as by UNESCO principles of peace education As a UN agency, all UN agencies should treat all member states equally, including the State of Israel.

It is imperative for decision-makers in Germany to know whether the PA textbooks used in UNRWA schools (as well as in all other schools in Jerusalem, judea, Samaraa and Gaza) advocate peace — or, instead, call for an armed struggle –, recognize the existence of Israel as a sovereign state in the region and the presence of its seven million Jews in the country as well as their holy places there, treat Jewish/Israeli individuals as they would other human beings, renounce terrorist activity against civilians, employ self-criticism in this regard, and so on.

It is incumbent upon Germany, more than any other nation, to exercise extreme care while dealing with issues closely connected to the wellbeing of the citizens of the Jewish State.

NOW PREPARING A PROPOSAL TO UNCOVER THE UNKNOWN ROLE OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT IN NURTURING AN UNPRECEDENTED PALESTINIAN MEIN KAMPF CURRICULUM.

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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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