Concerning the feature,  “Does Aid to Palestinians Subsidize the Families of Terrorists”? by Naomi Zeveloff http://forward.com/news/israel/348017/exclusive-does-aid-to-palestinians-subsidize-the-families-of-terrorists/?attribution=articles-article-listing-5-headline, What is missing is the context, which is even more lethal.

All official media outlets of the PA elevate those who murder a Jew, any Jew, at any age, to the highest level of honor in the nascent Palestinian society.

Nathan Brown, quoted herein as an expert on Palestinian Arabs,  makes a wrong comparison  of PA killers with the Jewish underground before 1948..

No Jewish underground group ever praised the murder of a bystander, while the PA revels in the killing of any Jew, anywhere, at any age.

In the annals of  antisemitism, the PA stamp of public approval of the murder of Jews and  of those who murder Jews represents a step far worse than the official German attitude to the murder of Jews before and during WWII.

At no time did the Nazi regime ever bestow an honor on those who murdered Jews. German government officials consistently tried to obfuscate their complicity in the murder of Jews.

PA officials hide nothing. The PA, in tune with the ideology of the Arab League and the PLO, view the murder of Jews as a justified means to the end.

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  1. Very significant distinction. Thank-you for this clarification. I had read the article in the Forward and was infuriated by the absence of context. I sometimes think that magazine will publish just about anything.

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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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