Palestinian Authority Education: No Room for a Two-State Solution

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David Bedein

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June 10, 2022

Palestinian Authority schoolbooks feature three fundamentals:

De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, which includes denial of their history and the existence of any Jewish holy places there.
Demonization of both Israel and Jews, also religiously – with implications regarding the Jews’ image in the eyes of children who hail from a traditional society.
The absence of a call for peace with Israel. Instead, there is a call for a violent struggle for the liberation of the whole country, including pre-1967 Israel. This struggle is given a religious color and terror is made an integral part thereof, encouraging the murder of Jews.

De-Legitimization

Israel’s Jewish citizens are considered foreign colonialists:

“We will think and discuss: I will compare the tragedy of the Indians, America’s original inhabitants, to the tragedy of the Palestinian people.”

(Social Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2020) p. 34)

The country’s Jewish history is denied, including the existence of archaeological items proving that: “…[The conqueror has built for himself an artificial entity that derives its identity and the legitimacy of its existence from tales, legends and phantasies and has tried in various ways and means to create live material evidence for these legends, or archaeological architectural proofs that would determine their truth and authenticity, but in vain.”]

(Arabic Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 (2020) p. 68)

Existence of Jewish holy places in the country is denied, including the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Please note that the photograph has been cut in a way that would “hide” the Jews who pray there:

“Al-Buraq Wall”

The Al-Buraq Wall has been named after Al-Buraq [the divine beast] that carried the Messenger [of God, i.e., Muhammad] during the Nocturnal Journey [from Mecca to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, according to Islamic belief] and the Ascension [to Heaven]. The Al-Buraq Wall is part of the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque, including the wall, is Palestinian land and an exclusive right of the Muslims.”

(Islamic Education, Grade 5, Part 1 (2020) p. 63)

Having been considered foreign settlers, Jews in the country are not counted as legitimate inhabitants and the cities they built there, including Tel Aviv, are absent from maps in the texts used in PA schools. The PA school map here, titled “Map of Palestine”, does not show any Jewish city, except the southern city of Eilat that appears under its Arabic name, desolate place where it was later built – “Umm al-Rashrash”.

(Social Studies, Grade 6, Part 1 (2020) p. 6)

The Jews’ historical and religious ties to Jerusalem are ignored. According to the PA textbooks, Jerusalem was built by the Palestinians’ Arab ancestors (i.e., the “Arabized” Canaanites and Jebusites) and is holy to Muslims and Christians alone. Jews are not mentioned in this context: “Jerusalem is an Arab city built by our Arab ancestors thousands of years ago. Jerusalem is holy only to Muslims and Christians.”

(National and Social Upbringing, Grade 3, Part 1 (2020) p. 29)

A short historical description of the city’s names features a huge gap of 1000 years between the Jebusites and the Romans, that is, the Jewish historical period. The name “Jerusalem” with its various forms that is used in hundreds of languages around the world is completely absent:

“The city of Jerusalem was known as ‘Jebus’ after the Arab Jebusites who built it 5000 years ago. When the Romans occupied it they named it ‘Aelia’. Later on it came to be known as ‘Al-Quds’ or ‘Bayt al-Maqdis’, after the Muslims had conquered it at the hands of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 637 CE…”

(Geography and Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 10, Part 1 (2020) p. 43)

Demonization

Jews, sometimes referred to as “Zionists” with no real differentiation between these two terms, are demonized and accused of harboring genocidal intentions towards the Palestinians: “The Zionists have established their entity upon terror, extermination and colonialism. We will explain that.”

(Arab Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 (2020) p. 28)

Jews are demonized as infidels and as the Devil’s aides. A verse taken from a poem: “Where are the horsemen [who will ride] to Al-Aqsa [Mosque] to liberate it from the grip of infidelity, from the Devil’s aides?”

(Arabic Language, Grade 7, Part 1 (2020) p. 67)

The Jews are also demonized outside the context of the war, as enemies of Prophet Muhammad and Islam in its early years. They are given negative traits such as treachery and hostility, which makes them eternal enemies of Muslims today:

“But the Jews [in the city of Medina] did not respect the treaty [they had concluded with Muhammad] and resorted to all types of treachery, betrayal and aggression which forced the Muslims to fight them.”

(Islamic Education, Grade 7, Part 1 (2020) p. 52)
Moreover, Jews are presented as enemies of God’s prophets and, by implication, enemies of God himself, a portrayal that has an enormous impact on students who come from a traditional society: God’s enemies should be fought against until their utter destruction. The following example features the first out of several lessons to be learned from a chapter about Jesus Christ, who is considered a prophet in Islam:
“exposing the nature of the Children of Israel and their hostility to the prophets.”

(Islamic Education, Grade 9, Part 2 (2020) p. 21)

Encouraging the Murder of Jews

The murder of Jews is featured as an integral part of the liberation struggle, and featured on the first page of a four-page lesson exalting the female commander of a terror attack against an Israeli civilian bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway in 1978 where over thirty Jews – men, women and children – were murdered:

“Dalal al-Mughrabi”

In front of the text: Our Palestinian history is replete with many names of martyrs who sacrificed their souls for the homeland, among whom is the martyr Dalal al-Mughrabi, who painted with her struggle a picture of challenge and bravery that has made her memory eternal within our hearts and minds. The text before us shows her struggle and journey.” (Arabic Language, Grade 5, Part 2)

(2020) p. 51)

In conclusion, the nascent Palestinian Authority textbooks de-legitimize the existence of the State of Israel, and the very presence of its 7 million Jewish citizens in the country, whose history and holy places there are denied.

The PA books never advocate a peaceful solution. Instead, they call for a violent struggle for the liberation of all of Palestine, with strong religious characteristics, which is not limited by the 1967 lines and in which terror plays a central role.

In other words, PA education allows no room for a “two-state solution”.

By David Bedein

Research: Dr. Arnon Groiss

When Egypt was in Gaza

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June 10, 2022

When I first visited the Gaza Strip after the Six Day War, I encountered a territory that bore stark witness to Egyptian aggression, callousness and inhumanity. For 19 long years, the area had been run directly by the Egyptian army. Under a “constitution” drawn up by the Egyptians, all legislative powers were invested in the Egyptian military commander, who controlled the civil administration. All political parties, except one endorsed by the Egyptians, were banned. The military governor also acted as the judiciary, and there was no appeal.

There were no elections. A puppet government automatically ratified all legislation that the governor brought before it. In 1965, even this façade of local autonomy collapsed when the Egyptian army dismissed the legislature.

The secret police probed everywhere. No one was immune from sudden arrest and unlimited imprisonment without trial or, at best, a secret trial. The jails were always full and torture was common. There was official censorship of the press and mail, and telephone lines were regularly tapped.

For nearly 19 years, the inhabitants of the Strip were prohibited from leaving their homes from 9 p.m. until dawn on pain of death. This curfew was enforced by roadblocks. Men between 18 and 40 were prohibited from traveling to Egypt unless they were fortunate enough to secure permits. If they failed to return at the expiration of their permit, the military authorities took steps against their families.

The Egyptians seized property at will, while refugees were prohibited from owning land. Thousands of young refugees were forcibly conscripted into the Egyptian army. Many were sent to fight Gamal Abdel Nasser’s war in Yemen; others were sent into Israel to murder, sabotage and disrupt communications.

Three-quarters of the able-bodied were unemployed. Medical and social services were almost nonexistent The Egyptians did nothing to help farmers, create housing or develop industry. The majority of Arabs in the Strip outside the town of Gaza were left to rot, without sewage, running water, electricity or roads.
INDOCTRINATION TO HATRED of Israel started at the very tenderest years. I saw pictures which children had drawn, with the encouragement of their teachers, depicting themselves killing Israeli children. The textbooks dripped venom. One text for the third grade, entitled Arabic Islamic History read:

“The Jews are always the same, in every time, every place. They live only in darkness. They secretly plan to do evil; they fight only from hidden places because they are cowards. We must purify holy Palestine from their filth in order to bring peace back to the Arab homeland.”

So harsh was the Egyptian rule in Gaza that Radio Mecca broadcast this protest on March 10, 1962:

“We would like to ask Cairo: What is this iron curtain that Abdel Nasser and his cohorts have lowered around Gaza and the refugees there? These are the very methods which the dictator Hitler used in the countries he occupied. Imagine, Arabs, how Nasser (who claims to be the pioneer of Arab nationalism) treats the Arab people of Gaza, who starve while the Egyptian governor and his officers bask in the wealth of the Strip…”

THE ONLY AREA in which the Egyptian army was active, aside from suppressing human rights, was in smuggling. There was a lively trade between its warehouses in Gaza – stuffed with television sets, French perfumes, Italian silks and US whiskey – and Cairo, with the cooperation of top officials in Egypt. Long convoys would arrive in Cairo biweekly loaded with contraband. When the Israeli forces captured Gaza in 1956 they found these warehouses. (Predictably the military governor and his cohorts had skipped with all the savings that Gazans had deposited in local banks.)

Egypt’s policy for the Strip was succinctly spelled out by the deputy governor, Muhammad Flafaga, in an interview appearing in the Danish newspaper Aktuelt on February 9, 1967:

Question: Why not send the refugees to other Arab countries? Syria would no doubt be able to absorb a vast number of them. Are you afraid that national bonds with Palestine will be loosened, that the hatred against Israel will vanish if they become ordinary citizens?Answer: As a matter of fact, you are right. Syria could take all of them, and the problem would be solved. But we do not want that. They are to return to Palestine.

UNRWA reported in 1956: “One of the obstacles to the achievement of the General Assembly’s goal of making the refugees self-supporting continues to be the opposition of the governments in the area.”

Ralph Galloway, an UNRWA official who quit in frustration, observed bitterly: “The Arab states don’t want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.”

Some comments by readers of the original article:

1. And these were the good years. No outsiders complained the Gazans were locked in a jail.
What awaits us Jews if Israel were forced to leave the entire W.Bank? The same “gratitude” that we received for leaving Gaza and creating 10,000 homeless Jews. No doubt, the world will scream that the W.Bank is a jail for 2.5 million Palestinians (assume the “settlers” are forced out, too), and Israel must do much more to give them a viable homeland, regardless of how they behave.
Roz – USA (06/04/2009 01:24)

6. Palestinian pawns
Since 1948, the Palestinians have been held captive first as you report in the story by Egypt and after the 1967 War, by the UN through their “good works”. It is also good to remember that all the Arab states hated Y. Arafat. He was their useful idiot in keeping the hatred for Jews and Israel at a fever pitch.
Colin Nelson – Canada (06/04/2009 17:28)

7. Refugees
What I find outrageous is that this information is not screamed from the rooftops, so that people understand the history of this conflict better! This conflict is based on myth, deception, distortion of the truth, and revised history. This is the only case in history that refugees have not been resettled elsewhere, but most people are unaware, atleast outside of Israel. And why is not Israel not calling to light that there were Jewish refugees from the West and Arab lands?
Michelle Paquette Adams – USA (06/04/2009 17:54)

Eliezar Whartman, using the pen name Eliezer Ben Yisrael, was the Westinghouse Radio correspondent in Israel in 1967; he was the first to report Israel’s capture of the Temple Mount. He is often cited as the author of the well-known “Letter to the World From Jerusalem” that was originally published in the August 1969 edition of the Times of Israel under the name of Stanley Goldfoot.

On the other hand this note is from Margi and it appeared November 29, 2007 in
http://www.theolive-branch.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=567&p=8567

On November 24, 2006 , at the age of 92, a man named Stanley Goldfoot passed away. He is remembered by family and friends for his love for and devotion to Israel and the Jewish people. Stanley Goldfoot was born in Johannesburg , South Africa . Subsequent to his hearing a speech about the Zionist vision by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, he headed for Palestine where, at the age of 18, he joined a HaShomer HaTzair kibbutz. After the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel his main goal, which he eventually realized, was to establish a Zionist English newspaper, “The Times of Israel.”

In the first issue of “The Times of Israel”, Stanley Goldfoot wrote his famous controversial “Letter to the World from Jerusalem”, which caused quite a stir. The article is still relevant and, in his memory, I am sharing it with you.

Stanley Goldfoot could certainly be another of Whartman’s or Ben Yisrael’s pen names or, more likely, his actual name before he changed it after settling in Israel, but, according to Margi, Goldfoot died in 2006 and the article on his visit to Gaza that was published in June 2009 makes no reference to his death. If someone can enlighten us, please send your information to editor@think-israel.org

This is the Letter to the World published in the Times of Israel in 1969.

I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe. I am a Jerusalemite-like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.

I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you or even persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city, you did not live in it, you did not defend it when they came to destroy it. And we will be damned if we will let you take it away.

There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin, Moscow, London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves- a humane moral code.

Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning. Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning Temple rather than surrender, and when finally overwhelmed by sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their right arms wither.

For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned the Almighty: “Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us upright to our land, return in mercy to Jerusalem, Thy city, and swell in it as Thou promised.” On every Yom Kippur and Passover, we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem.

Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the holocaust (and worse, your terrifying disinterest in it) – all these have not broken us. They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed, but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after Dachau and Auschwitz we are frightened by your threats of blockades and sanctions? We have been to Hell and back- a Hell of your making. What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?

I have watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I saw women and children blown to smithereens, after we agreed to your request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination that did the job- British officers, Arab gunners, and American-made cannon. And then the savage sacking of the Old City-the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps, even latrines.

And you never said a word.

You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shut off the holiest of our places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges they had made after the war – a war they waged, incidentally, against the decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the legionnaires in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our citizens from behind the walls.

Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your airlift “to save the gallant Berliners”. But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem. You thundered against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the German capital – but not one peep out of you about that other wall, the one that tore through the heart of Jerusalem.

And when that same thing happened 20 years later, and the Arabs unleashed a savage, unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again, did any of you do anything?

The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of “justice” and need for the “Christian” quality of turning the other cheek.

The truth – and you know it deep inside your gut – you would prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the age old prejudices seep out of every word.

If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you had better reexamine your catechisms. After what we have been through, we are not passively going to accommodate ourselves to the twisted idea that we are to suffer eternal homelessness until we accept your savior.

For the first time since the year 70, there is now complete religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans put a torch to the Temple, everyone has equal rights (You prefer to have some more equal than others.) We loathe the sword- but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace, but we are not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to.

We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We are redeeming the pledge made by our forefathers: Jerusalem is being rebuilt. “Next year” and the year after, and after, and after, until the end of time- “in Jerusalem”!

Stanley Goldfoot
Founder Editor
The Times of Israel
August 1969

This article was published June 3, 2009 in the Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244034989178&pagename= JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Recipes for chaos

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Michael Kuttner

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June 10, 2022

Definition: “mixture of people and events that will lead to disorder, confusion and trouble.”

This more than adequately sums up the situations which confront us now and in the immediate future.

Whether it is the dysfunctional coalition and Knesset or looming events overseas the potential for mayhem is the highest it has been for a long time.

When the current Government was established a year ago after a series of excruciating elections resulted in deadlock, commentators wished it a long life but everyone knew that the prognosis was one of “Baruch Dayan Emet” rather than “Ad Meir V’Esrim.”

With a coalition of eight political parties spanning the electoral spectrum from the almost post-Zionist delusional left to the nationalist right and for the first time an Arab party, some of whose members are ambivalent of being part of a “Zionist” coalition, this experiment was always designed to implode at some stage.

The amazing and almost miraculous reality is that it has lasted as long as it has and managed to achieve some noteworthy goals, namely the passing of a budget as well as other social and security aims. In the overall scheme of things, given the unwieldy and impossible composition of the coalition, reaching one year in office could be considered a considerable achievement.

Unfortunately, this sort of instability, where because of a vanished majority, any Member of Knesset can hold the whole country to ransom and extort to their heart’s content. This results in chaos and trouble.

So it has come to pass.

Throw in an opposition led by an ex-PM who believes that he alone is worthy of leading the country and partners who are adamantly thirsting to get their hands on the money pot again and want to permanently fossilize Judaism back to the Shtetl and you have a recipe for disorder and confusion.

If it could be guaranteed that a new election would produce a strong, stable government and that the majority of Knesset members were dedicated to the best interests of the country and all its citizens instead of their own narrow and partisan ambitions, then one could agree that this was the best course of action. It is no wonder that among the general public the level of respect for our politicians is at an all-time low. We need a general clean out and an entirely new crop of representatives with fewer parties.

Meanwhile back in the USA which for far too many Jews is still “The promised land” every day it seems heralds yet another gun massacre. The unbelievable simple ability for anyone to acquire lethal weapons via mail order or gun stores and the rising tsunami of violence, looting and crimes against persons and property, plus the insane movement to defund police and push woke policies, leaves most Israelis absolutely dazed.

One would think that given this rising tide of social and gender chaos, reminiscent many believe, of the last days of the Roman Empire, that the President and his colleagues might deem it advisable to stay close to Washington and try to deal with these mounting challenges.

Incredible as it may seem, President Biden and his Democratic cheerleaders prefer instead to visit Israel and make more chaos in an area where mayhem already abundantly exists. Instead of acknowledging the futility of appeasing and cozying up to those who peddle hate, incitement and intolerance, the American Administration is hell-bent on forcing Israel to commit itself to a path that leads to further terror. Promoting Abbas and his failed PA, lauding Abdullah and his mirages of guardianship of religious freedom and pandering to the illusory historical claims of Arab and Muslim sovereignty in

Jerusalem merely creates roadblocks on the road to genuine peace in the region.

Like battered spouses, Biden and Blinken refuse to believe that the insults and threats hurled at them by the PA and allies on a continuing basis constitute anything other than harmless rhetoric. Instead of consequences, the State Department wants to foster the illusion that the Palestinian Arabs have a claim to half of our Capital by establishing a consulate just for them on Israel sovereign territory.

Threats by Abbas to sever all cooperation with Israel and declarations by a senior Fatah official that “we must make the Americans quake in fear” incur neither condemnation nor punishment.

The UN Human Rights Council, which Biden rejoined, continues to target and blame Israel while excusing and sanitizing those who murder its citizens. As the US waffles and wobbles, Iran marches resolutely and without hindrance towards its aim of achieving nuclear capability and fulfilling its goal of ending the “Zionist virus.”

Despite all these clear intentions, President Biden still intends to visit and exert pressure so that the discredited and plainly lunatic agenda to create yet another failed terror-supporting country can be planted in the midst of our historic homeland.

The message from Jerusalem should be loud and clear: “don’t go, Joe. Stay home and deal with all the threats to the lives of your own citizens.”

The President of the EU Parliament meanwhile declared “Europe will always back Israel’s right to exist.” How reassuring, how patronizing and how demeaning these words sound as European countries do everything to ensure that their actions will result in an emasculated Jewish State unable to defend itself and with half its Capital torn asunder.

In a perfect example of how those who constitute the immoral majority at the UN and elsewhere are able to exert their power, the Chinese Ambassador to Israel vociferously objected to an interview with the Taiwanese Foreign Minister which was published in a recent issue of the Jerusalem Post. He of course is perfectly entitled to complain about views that he considers erroneous but demanding that the offending item be immediately struck from the paper and banned from being published anywhere is bizarre. Telling publishers what they can print and force-feeding only officially sanctioned news onto the general public may be standard fare in countries like China but it is an entirely alien concept in a democratic country. The fact that this prize piece of chutzpah did not raise more of a diplomatic or media storm merely illustrates the deplorable depths to which international morality has now sunk.

Most political disasters are a result of peddling half baked recipes.

It’s about time that the perpetrators are sent a clear message.

A Letter to the World from Jerusalem, 1969

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June 10, 2022

Eliezer Whartman has a few things he needs to get off his chest.

War drums: Are Syria and Russia Preparing to attack Israel?

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June 9, 2022

Over the past year and especially since the Bennett-Abbas government started criticizing Russia for invading Ukraine, Russia and Israel has seen their relationship unravel. Where at one time, Russia appeared to be ambivalent to Israel’s incursions into Syrian airspace in order to strike Iranian targets, now Moscow has increasingly grown belligerent and bellicose.

Currently, Russia has established 15 known bases throughout Syria. These bases houses thousands of Russian troops and this number continues to grow. Over the last few months, Russia has launched more and more joint drills with Syria and as increased its activity on Israel’s borders

Russia has already increased and activated Syria’s S-400 anti-air system plus Putin has moved over nuclear capable hypersonic missiles to the Syrian dictator.

So what should Israel do?

On one hand Israel cannot take on Russia, but on the other it also cannot allow continued Iranian buildup. A recent research paper by ALMA suggests the following:

“Israel needs to set the rules of the game in the region. The countries on Israel’s northern border should be considered one arena, and Israel should establish a central rule: any threat to Israel’s security will be met with an independent response from Israel, and the other “players” should take this into account. On their part, they need to manage their risks concerning this Israeli principle.”

Where is this all going?

Russia’s interest in Israel is both geopolitical and religious. Putin’s expansionist aspirations both in Ukraine and the Holy Land are connected first and foremost to his belief that the Russian people are a “chosen” people. Kiev is the birthplace of the Rus people and Jerusalem is the birthplace of Christianity.

Geopolitically, Putin is aiming for complete control over the Black Sea region so he can control food prices and when it comes to the Eastern Mediterranean, Russia is looking to pose a threat to Israeli gas exports.

A Battle Looming?

Right now Russia and Syria are not yet ready to launch an attack, but the coming months, especially as Russia turns the tables in Ukraine, gives Putin a near term time table where he may be able to support a united Iranian, Syrian, and Hezbollah attack on Israel in August or September.

With Israel’s government in free fall and enemies gathering, it is clear that despite all of our friends around the world, Israel has no one to rely expect the One Above.

Sponsor new UNRWA expose:

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June 9, 2022

The Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research has dispatched Gaza -accredited TV crews to film UNRWA youngsters at “munitions summer camps for kids” where they are instructed to fire weapons & missiles during the next round of Gaza attacks & prepare to die as martyrs.

The Bedein Center has interviewed tens of UNRWA children indoctrinated with the notion of the “right of return” by force of arms…to Acre, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, and of course, Jerusalem.
We must provide evidence to UNRWA donor countries and to the Israel Civil Administration that UNRWA must be policed.

Seeing is believing: A film is worth a thousand words. so no one can deny that UNRWA arms children in the line of fire, with lethal weapons, violating UN conventions against the use of child soldiers.

“TERROR OF RETURN”: Film https://vimeo.com/294968414

The film will be screened in German, Swedish & English, and shown in legislative bodies of the three largest UNRWA donor nations – Germany, the UK & Sweden… and in the US Congress, which now considers renewal of unconditional aid to UNRWA.

Seeking financial partners to produce & promote this film:
https://israelbehindthenews.com/donations/

Sponsor new UNRWA expose (1)

A Terror victim needs your help

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June 9, 2022

Shalom uvracha,

It has been about a month since Yosef Chaim was very badly injured in the Elad terrorist attack. He has severe wounds and he is currently being treated.

I am a mother of 11 children. My son Yosef Chaim was unfortunately in ELAD on the day that terrible attack that took unfortunately the 3 קדושים

Yosef Chaim was hit over the head and is in a comatose stage until today.

Aside from the daily living costs, there are expensive medical bills. His treatments are too costly for our family to pay for alone.

I am appealing to the hearts and kindness of Yidden around the world to help raise $50,000, which will go towards the costs of these treatments. With Hashem’s help, Yosef Chaim will get well soon. You will have a part in his recovery!

I am torn between taking care of Yosef Chaim who needs 24/7 care and taking care of the rest of our family.

The only way to do this is by hiring private help to be with him whenever I can’t be there. We depleted all our savings and are in desperate need for continuing his care.

Klal Yisrael should only experience good news and happiness. Hashem should bless you and your children with bracha, hatzlacha and mazal for many generations to come.
Please daven for יוסף חיים בן שרה לרפו”ש בתוך שאר חולי ישראל

תזכו למצוות

Sarah

Exponering av vapenutbildning i UNRWA-skolor.

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June 9, 2022

Tyska Mena-Watch, Stefan Frank, talade med David Bedein om den tyska och europeiska oviljan att engagera sig angående den militära utbildningen i UNRWA:s skolor.

David Bedein är grundare och chef för Bedein Center for Middle East Policy Research i Jerusalem, som har granskat UNRWA sedan 1987 för att informera allmänheten om hur dess medel, skolor och strukturer missbrukas av palestinska terroristorganisationer för sina egna syften.

Den 14 mars 2022 skickade David Bedein ett mejl till Oliver Owcza, chefen för Tysklands representation i de palestinska områdena. I mejlet skrev han:

“Ers excellens, Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research har identifierat förekomsten av massiva vapen vid UNRWA-anläggningar. Det visar flera dokumentärer som producerats av Bedein Center bara under det senaste året. Bedein-centret har en fråga till dig, diplomat från en UNRWA-givarnation. Kommer du som UNRWA-givare att be UNRWA att genomföra en inspektion av alla anläggningar för att avlägsna dödliga vapen?”

David Bedein fick inget svar.

Jag ställde därför samma fråga till det federala utrikeskontorets presstjänst. Utrikesdepartementet svarade:

“Utrikeskontoret känner inte till incidenten du nämnde, som du tillskriver en UNRWA-anläggning. Tyskland är i stadig kontakt med UNRWA.«

En bortförklaring som är typiskt för UD när palestinsk terrorism står på spel. Se även:

Mord an Israelis: Fragen, die das Auswärtige Amt nicht beantworten will (mena-watch.com)

Jag pratade om detta över Zoom med David Bedein.

Stefan Frank (SF): Herr Bedein, du skickade videoinspelningar till både den tyska representanten i Ramallah och det federala utrikeskontoret som visar hur krigsvapen presenteras och till och med avfyras i UNRWA-anläggningar. Stämmer det?

David Bedein (DB): Det är korrekt. I går fick vi besked om att om exakt fyra veckor startar ett nytt sommarträningsprogram för barn från UNRWA:s skolor där vapenträning kommer att ingå.

SF: I vilka anläggningar äger det rum?

DB: Dessa övningar genomförs på öppna ytor inte långt från UNRWA:s skolor. De som driver programmet är lärare för elever från UNRWA-skolor.

SF: Är området där den militära träningen äger rum under kontroll av UNRWA?

DB: Svårt att säga. I tidigare filmer som ni vet, från 2017 och 2018, ägde det faktiskt rum med bilder och insignier i bakgrunden från UNRWA. När vi filmade förra sommaren såg vi inte UNRWA:s emblem eller FN:s flaggor. Men i januari filmade vi UNRWA-barn med vapen i ett UNRWA-flyktingläger nära Betlehem.

SF: Så området för militärövningarna ligger i anslutning till UNRWA:s skolor?

DB: Det ligger precis bredvid. Övningar sker inte i själva skolorna, för efter att vi visade dessa filmer från 2017 och 2018 i den tyska förbundsdagen och i FN, kom det mycket reaktioner att något sådant här inte borde få hända.

Jag förutspår att militärövningarna i juli sannolikt inte kommer att hållas framför UNRWA:s emblem; men när vi sedan intervjuar eleverna och frågar dem var de kommer ifrån kommer de att ärligt svara, som de gör varje sommar, att de kommer från UNRWA-skolor. De kommer också att berätta för oss vad de lär sig i UNRWA:s skolor: vad de kallar “Right of Return with Arms”. (Rätt att återvända med vapenmakt”)

SF: Vad kan ses i videorna som du skickade till den tyska representationen i Ramallah och det federala utrikeskontoret?

DB: Vi skickade tre videor: En från 2018 där vi ser barnen marschera med vapen. Man ser UNRWA-instruktörer med pistoler lära barnen om “rätten att återvända”. ( The terror of return – English & Hebrew on Vimeo )

Sedan fick de händelsen från sommaren 2021 där tusentals barn från UNRWA:s sommarläger rekryterats till UNRWA:s skolor som lärde ut hur man använder automatvapen. Ledare ger automatiska vapen till barn – den yngsta är nio år gammal – i vetskap om att de kommer att använda dem.

( THE UNRWA CHILD SOLDIER – English on Vimeo )

( https://israelbehindthenews.com/2019/07/18/unrwa-sverige-betalar-for-sommarlager-i-gaza-med-terrorutbildning-for-barn/ )

Den tredje filmen vi har gjort tillgänglig är från januari i år, Fatah-dagen, i UNRWA:s flyktingläger Deheishe. Där ser man återigen barn med vapen.

SF: Vad säger du till den tyska regeringen?

DB: Vi ställde den federala regeringen och andra givarländer en mycket enkel fråga: ”Kommer ni som UNRWA-givarnation att be UNRWA att genomföra en inspektion av alla anläggningar för att avlägsna dödliga vapen?”

Igår fick jag ett pressmeddelande från UNRWA:s taleskvinna som meddelade att hon behövde mer pengar till UNRWA:s Jenin-läger, som vi vet har varit en härd för terroristverksamhet på sistone. I meddelandet nämndes ingen reglering eller transparens. Medlen kan komma i kontanter och syftet är difust.

Därför är mitt budskap till UNRWA:s donationsländer: Kontrollera vad som händer med dessa bidrag till UNRWA, så att de inte används för militära ändamål.

SF: Utrikesdepartementet uppger att de är i nära kontakt med UNRWA och har ingen information om vapen i UNRWA:s anläggningar.

DB: De undviker frågan: ”Kommer de att göra en utredning för att se om det finns vapen?”

Om de inte har någon information betyder det att de inte har undersökt. Om den gjorde en undersökning och sa “Vi hittade ingenting”, skulle det vara intressant. Men att säga att de inte har någon information eller ”litar på UNRWA” betyder att det inte har gjort någon forskning.

( https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/skriftlig-fraga/svenskt-bistand-och-spridning-av-laromedel-som_H8113341

Den federala regeringen, som är UNRWA:s främsta finansiär, har inte kontrollerat om det finns vapen vid UNRWA:s anläggningar. UNRWA får mycket pengar via federala regeringar och många andra stiftelser, ex Friedrich Ebert-stiftelsen, Konrad Adenauer-stiftelsen, Heinrich Böll-stiftelsen, Rosa Luxemburg-stiftelsen och Hanns Seidel-stiftelsen. (Så även bidrag från Sverige.)

Ni borde alla kontrollera vad som händer med pengarna.

SF: Har du kontaktat de nämnda stiftelserna?

DB: Ja. Jag frågade om de kollade om pengarna de skickade användes till vapen, i terroristsyfte – men fick inget svar.

SF: Du har gjort liknande förfrågningar i andra europeiska länder och i Nordamerika. Var det mer framgångsrikt?

DB: Jag har haft framgång med den amerikanska regeringen: den amerikanska regeringen kommer inte att släppa pengarna för utbildning förrän de har försäkringar om att utbildning kommer att övervakas och revideras. Det vill säga att den amerikanska regeringen har allokerat pengarna, men den kommer inte att släppa dem eftersom den amerikanska kongressen kräver ansvar för vad som händer med pengarna. Så USA gav pengarna, men ställde också ett villkor: att UNRWA inte får använda dem förrän de uppfyllt fördraget. USA och UNRWA kom sommaren 2021 överens om att de inte kommer att tillåta att anläggningarna används för terroriständamål.

Det är mycket viktigt att övervaka både inkommande humanitära medel och inkommande utbildningsmedel. 58 procent av UNRWA:s budget går till utbildning. När vi ser barnen i militär träning nu, så är det en del av deras utbildningssystem.

SF: Har du haft någon framgång i Europa i dina ansträngningar att kontrollera medel till UNRWA?

DB: Inte alls. EU-parlamentet har gett vissa rekommendationer för revidering av läroböcker. Europeiska kommissionen, som företräder EU, har dock inte ställt några frågor till UNRWA. Så även om Europaparlamentet är mycket känsligt för våra frågor, tillåter inte EU:s beslutsfattare att något förändras.

SF: Vad tror du är huvudorsaken till att EU och den tyska regeringen är ovilliga att stoppa användningen av europeiska skattebetalares pengar för att finansiera palestinsk terrorism och mord på judar? Är det lättja eller en önskan att sopa dessa saker under mattan?

DB: Det är mer allvarligt än så. Det federala utrikeskontoret strävar efter ekonomiska förbindelser med den palestinska myndigheten (PA), PFLP och Hamas. Allt är en fråga om ekonomi och de vill inte att något ska störa deras affär med PA. Deras policy är: så länge pengarna flödar kommer det att råda fred. Det finns naturligtvis ingen grund i verkligheten för detta antagande.

SF: Ser du någon koppling till hur europeiska regeringar betalade palestinska terroristorganisationer på 1970-talet? På den tiden betalade länder som Tyskland och Schweiz många miljoner tyska mark och schweizerfranc i lösensumma och skyddspengar till PFLP och andra terrororganisationer för att inte bli måltavla av terroristerna själva.

DB: Det finns väldigt stora likheter. Som före detta amerikan känner jag till detta koncept som att “hylla terrorister”. Och det är vad vi pratar om. Att tillåta dem och samtidigt titta åt andra hållet när de gör något brottsligt. Det skulle vara så lätt för världens regeringar som har kontor i Ramallah, att titta på alla flyktingläger i Judéen/Samaria, Gaza, Jerusalem och se vad som händer där. Och med mängden vapen — vi pratar vapen för 30 000 barn — är det inte svårt att lista ut var dessa vapen förvaras.

SF: Borde inte detta också vara en viktig fråga om mänskliga rättigheter för alla regeringar?

DB: Självklart. Eftersom det är en kränkning av barns rättigheter, som borde skyddas av FN. Det finns mycket stränga FN-lagar mot att beväpna barn under femton år. Och tittar man på filmerna så finns det barn som med säkerhet är under femton år och som får militär utbildning i vapen. Vi anklagar donationsländernas regeringar för att anstifta ett våldsamt uppror. De kan inte säga att de inte vet vad som händer för detta sker offentligt. Alla borde se vad som händer i Jenin.

SF: Vad kan medborgare göra som inte vill att deras skattepengar ska användas till barnbeväpning och terrorism?

DB: Jag rekommenderar att du tar upp frågan om vapen, hets och indoktrinering i UNRWA:s skolor och UNRWA:s flyktingläger med UD och alla partier och begär en fullständig bedömning. Inget är lättare än att ställa den här frågan.

Vapenutbildningsprogrammet för UNRWA:s barn börjar första veckan i juli. Kommer vi att se vad som händer i dessa UNRWA:s läger? Sanningen är att den palestinska myndigheten, som tillhandahåller dessa vapen, är den första enheten i världens historia som erbjuder lön (pay for slay) till alla som mördar en jude. Det hade inte ens nazisterna. Den palestinska myndigheten ligger flera steg före nazisterna. Nazisterna försökte dölja vad de gjorde. Den palestinska myndigheten i UNRWA och Hamas gör allt de kan för att publicera vad de gör. Inget hålls hemligt.

Och viktigast av allt, som de största givare till UNRWA kan ni istället stödja rehabiliteringen och vidarebosättningen av dessa människor som nu har bott i flyktingläger sedan 1949.

SF: Var kan vi få reda på mer om detta ämne?

DB: Vi har en webbplats där du kan hitta mer information om UNRWA. https://israelbehindthenews.com/category/swedish/

Jag betonar att vi är privatfinansierade. Vi får inga medel från någon regering. Vill du skänka så gör du det. På hemsidan kan du få reda på hur du gör det enklast.

Israel & the Jordanian Question

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June 7, 2022

Chair with Dead Dove, Ori Reisman
During a visit to King Abdullah II in Amman early January 2022, Israel’s Minister of Defense Benny Gantz referred to “the strategic importance of strong and enduring relations between Israel and Jordan.” We shall suggest reasonable justifications for Israel’s positive orientation toward the Hashemite Kingdom; thereafter we will offer counterarguments
for an alternative perspective to reassess the policy.

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Gaza: UNO-Schulen lehren Kinder das »Recht auf Rückkehr mit Waffengewalt«

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June 7, 2022

Mena-Watch sprach mit David Bedein über den deutschen und europäischen Unwillen, sich mit der militärischen Ausbildung in UNRWA-Schulen auseinanderzusetzen.

David Bedein ist Gründer und Direktor des Bedein Center für Nahostpolitik-Forschung in Jerusalem, das seit 1987 Recherchen über das Palästinenserhilfswerk UNRWA betreibt, um die Öffentlichkeit darüber zu informieren, wie dessen Gelder, Schulen und Strukturen von palästinensischen Terrororganisationen für ihre eigenen Zwecke missbraucht werden.

Am 14. März 2022 sandte er eine E-Mail an Oliver Owcza, den Leiter der deutschen Vertretung in den Palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten. Darin schrieb er:

»Eure Exzellenz, das Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research hat das Vorhandensein massiver Waffen in UNRWA-Einrichtungen festgestellt. Das zeigen mehrere Dokumentarfilme, die das Bedein Center allein im letzten Jahr produziert hat. [Links zu den Websites waren beigefügt; Anm. Mena-Watch.]

Das Bedein Center stellt Ihnen als Diplomat einer UNRWA-Gebernation eine Frage. Werden Sie als UNRWA-Gebernation die UNRWA bitten, eine Inspektion aller Einrichtungen durchzuführen, um tödliche Waffen zu entfernen?«

David Bedein erhielt keine Antwort. Daraufhin stellte ich dieselbe Frage der Pressestelle des Auswärtigen Amts. Aus dem Auswärtigen Amt heißt es:

»Der von Ihnen genannte Vorfall, den Sie einer UNRWA-Einrichtung zuordnen, ist dem Auswärtigen Amt nicht bekannt. Deutschland steht in permanentem Austausch mit UNRWA.«

Eine Nichtantwort, die typisch ist für das Auswärtige Amt, wann immer es um palästinensischen Terrorismus geht (siehe auch hier und hier). Ich sprach darüber über Zoom mit David Bedein.

Stefan Frank (SF): Herr Bedein, Sie haben sowohl dem deutschen Repräsentanten in Ramallah als auch dem Auswärtigen Amt Videoaufnahmen zugesandt, die zeigen, wie in Einrichtungen der UNRWA Kriegswaffen präsentiert und sogar abgefeuert werden. Ist das korrekt?

David Bedein (DB): Das ist richtig. Gestern wurde uns mitgeteilt, dass in genau vier Wochen ein neues Sommertrainingsprogramm zur Waffenausbildung von Kindern von UNRWA-Schulen beginnen wird.

SF: In welchen Einrichtungen findet es statt?

DB: Diese Übungen werden auf offenen Flächen unweit der UNRWA-Schulen durchgeführt. Die Personen, die das Programm durchführen, sind Lehrer und Schüler von UNRWA-Schulen.

SF: Steht das Gebiet, in dem die militärische Ausbildung stattfindet, rechtlich unter der Kontrolle der UNRWA?

DB: Schwer zu sagen. In früheren Filmen, die Sie ja kennen, von 2017 und 2018, fand sie tatsächlich vor der Kulisse von Bildern und Insignien der UNRWA statt. Als wir letzten Sommer filmten, sahen wir weder das UNRWA-Emblem noch die Flaggen der Vereinten Nationen. Aber im Januar haben wir UNRWA-Kinder mit Waffen gefilmt, in einem UNRWA-Flüchtlingslager in der Nähe von Bethlehem.

SF: Das Gebiet für die Militärübungen grenzt an die UNRWA-Schulen?

DB: Es ist direkt daneben. Der Drill findet nicht in den Schulen selbst statt, denn nachdem wir diese Filme mit Aufnahmen aus den Jahren 2017 und 2018 im Deutschen Bundestag und bei den Vereinten Nationen gezeigt haben, gab es viele Rückmeldungen, dass so etwas nicht passieren sollte.

Ich prognostiziere, dass die militärischen Übungen im Juli wahrscheinlich nicht vor Emblemen der UNRWA stattfinden werden; aber wenn wir die Schüler dann interviewen und fragen werden, woher sie kommen, werden sie – wie jeden Sommer – sagen, dass sie aus UNRWA-Schulen kommen. Sie werden uns auch erzählen, was sie in UNRWA-Schulen lernen: das, was sie »Recht auf Rückkehr mit Waffengewalt« nennen.

SF: Was ist in den Videos zu sehen, die Sie der deutschen Vertretung in Ramallah und dem Auswärtigen Amt vorgelegt haben?

DB: Wir haben drei Videos eingereicht: Eines von 2018, in dem die Kinder mit Waffen marschieren. Man sieht Ausbilder der UNRWA, die ihnen die Idee des »Rechts auf Rückkehr« mit den Waffen beibringen. Dann gibt es die Aufnahmen vom Sommer 2021, in denen Tausenden von Kindern aus den UNRWA-Lagern, rekrutiert in den UNRWA-Schulen, der Umgang mit automatischen Waffen beigebracht wird. Sie geben Kindern – die jüngsten sind neun Jahre alt – automatische Waffen, in dem Wissen, dass sie sie benutzen werden. Das dritte Filmmaterial, das wir zur Verfügung gestellt haben, stammt vom Januar dieses Jahres, dem »Fatah-Tag« im UNRWA-Flüchtlingslager Deheishe. Man sieht wiederum Kinder mit Waffen.

SF: Was sagen Sie der deutschen Bundesregierung?

DB: Wir haben der Bundesregierung und anderen Geberländern eine ganz einfache Frage gestellt: Werden Sie als UNRWA-Gebernation die UNRWA auffordern, eine Inspektion aller Einrichtungen durchzuführen, um tödliche Waffen zu entfernen?

Gestern – das ist ein Zufall – erhielt ich eine Pressemitteilung von der Sprecherin der UNRWA, die sagte, dass sie mehr Geld für das UNRWA-Lager Dschenin brauche, das natürlich in letzter Zeit eine Brutstätte terroristischer Aktivitäten gewesen ist. Die Meldung erwähnte keine Regulierung der Gelder: Es kann in bar kommen und der Zweck ist fraglich. Meine Botschaft an die deutsche Wählerschaft lautet daher: Schauen Sie, was mit den UNRWA-Geldern passiert, schauen Sie, ob sie für militärische Zwecke verwendet werden.

SF: Das Auswärtige Amt gibt an, mit der UNRWA in Kontakt zu stehen und keine Kenntnis von Waffen in UNRWA-Einrichtungen zu haben.

DB: Es weicht meiner Frage aus: Werden Sie eine Untersuchung durchführen, um zu sehen, ob es Waffen gibt? Das ist die Frage. Wenn es keine Kenntnis hat, bedeutet dies, dass es keine Untersuchung durchgeführt hat. Wenn es eine Untersuchung durchgeführt und gesagt hätte: »Wir haben nichts gefunden« – das wäre interessant. Aber zu sagen, dass es kein Wissen habe, bedeutet, dass es keine Untersuchungen durchgeführt hat.

Die Bundesregierung, die der wichtigste Geldgeber der UNRWA ist, hat nicht überprüft, ob es Waffen in UNRWA-Einrichtungen gibt. Die UNRWA bekommt sehr viel Geld von der Bundesregierung und deutschen Parteistiftungen wie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung oder der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. Sie alle sollten überprüfen, was mit dem Geld passiert.

SF: Haben Sie Kontakt zu den genannten Stiftungen aufgenommen?

DB: Ja. Ich fragte, ob sie überprüft hätten, ob das Geld, das sie schickten, für Waffen, für terroristische Zwecke verwendet wurde – keine Antwort.

SF: Sie haben ähnliche Anfragen in anderen europäischen Ländern und in Nordamerika gestellt. War das erfolgreicher?

DB: Ich hatte Erfolg bei der US-Regierung: Die US-Regierung gibt das Geld für die Bildung nicht frei, bis sie die Zusicherung hat, dass die Bildung überwacht und überarbeitet wird. Das heißt, die US-Regierung hat das Geld zwar zugeteilt, aber sie wird es nicht freigeben, weil der US-Kongress Rechenschaft darüber verlangt, was mit dem Geld geschieht. Die Vereinigten Staaten gaben also das Geld, stellten aber auch eine Bedingung: dass die UNRWA es nicht verwenden darf, bis sie den Vertrag erfüllt. Die Vereinigten Staaten und UNRWA haben im Sommer 2021 nämlich vereinbart, dass sie die Nutzung der Einrichtungen für terroristische Zwecke nicht zulassen werden.

Es ist sehr wichtig, sowohl die eingehenden humanitären Gelder als auch die eingehenden Bildungsgelder zu überwachen. 58 Prozent des UNRWA-Budgets fließen in die Bildung. Wenn Sie jetzt die Kinder in der Militärausbildung sehen, das ist Teil des Bildungssystems.

SF: Hatten Sie bei Ihren Bemühungen um eine Kontrolle der Gelder für die UNRWA irgendwelche Erfolge in Europa?

DB: Überhaupt keine. Das EU-Parlament hat bestimmte Empfehlungen zur Überarbeitung der Schulbücher ausgesprochen. Die Europäische Kommission, die die EU vertritt, hat jedoch keinerlei Anfragen an UNRWA gerichtet. Während also das Europäische Parlament sehr sensibel auf unsere Fragen reagiert, lassen die EU-Entscheidungsträger nicht zu, dass sich etwas ändert.

SF: Welcher ist Ihrer Meinung nach der Hauptgrund, warum es der EU und der deutschen Regierung widerstrebt, die Verwendung europäischer Steuergelder für die Finanzierung des palästinensischen Terrorismus und die Ermordung von Juden zu stoppen? Ist es Faulheit oder der Wunsch, diese Dinge unter den Teppich zu kehren?

DB: Es ist ernster. Das Auswärtige Amt strebt wirtschaftliche Beziehungen zur Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde (PA), zur PFLP und zur Hamas an. Es ist alles eine Frage der Ökonomie, und sie wollen nicht, dass irgendetwas ihr Geschäft mit der PA stört. Ihre Politik lautet: Solange das Geld fließt, wird es Frieden geben. Für diese Annahme gibt es natürlich keine Basis in der Realität.

SF: Sehen Sie einen Zusammenhang dazu, wie europäische Regierungen in den 1970er Jahren palästinensische Terrororganisationen bezahlten? Damals zahlten Länder wie Deutschland und die Schweiz viele Millionen D-Mark und Schweizer Franken Löse- und Schutzgeld an die PFLP und andere Terrororganisationen, um nicht selbst ins Visier der Terroristen zu geraten.

DB: Es sind sehr große Ähnlichkeiten. Als ehemaliger Amerikaner kenne ich dieses Konzept als »Tribut zahlen an Terroristen« Und davon reden wir. Tribut zahlen und wegschauen, wenn sie etwas falsch machen. Es wäre das Einfachste für die deutsche Regierung, die ein Büro in Ramallah hat, sich alle Flüchtlingslager in Judäa/Samaria, Gaza, Jerusalem anzusehen und zu schauen, was dort los ist. Und bei der Menge an Waffen – wir sprechen von Schusswaffen für 30.000 Kinder – ist es nicht schwierig, herauszufinden, wo diese Waffen aufbewahrt werden.

SF: Sollte dies nicht auch ein wichtiges menschenrechtliches Anliegen der Bundesregierung sein?

DB: Selbstverständlich. Es ist eine Verletzung der Rechte von Kindern, die von der UNO geschützt sind. Es gibt sehr strenge UN-Gesetze gegen die Bewaffnung von Kindern unter fünfzehn Jahren. Und wenn Sie sich die Filme ansehen, da sind Kinder, die sicherlich jünger als fünfzehn Jahre sind und eine militärische Ausbildung mit Waffen erhalten. Wir werfen der deutschen Bundesregierung vor, einen gewaltsamen Aufstand zu schüren. Sie kann nicht sagen, dass sie nicht wisse, was los ist. Dies geschieht in der Öffentlichkeit. Schaut sich die deutsche Regierung wenigstens an, was in Dschenin passiert?

SF: Was können deutsche Bürger tun, die nicht wollen, dass ihr Steuergeld für Kinderbewaffnung und Terrorismus verwendet wird?

DB: Ich empfehle, dass sie das Thema der Waffen, der Hetze und der Indoktrination in UNRWA-Schulen und UNRWA-Flüchtlingslagern beim Auswärtigen Amt, beim Bundeskanzler, bei allen Parteien im Bundestag zur Sprache bringen und um eine vollständige Bewertung bitten. Nichts leichter, als diese Frage zu stellen.

Das Waffentrainingsprogramm für UNRWA-Kinder beginnt in der ersten Juliwoche. Werden sie zusehen, was in den UNRWA-Camps passiert? Der Kontext ist, dass die Palästinensische Autonomiebehörde, die diese Waffen liefert, die erste Entität in der Geschichte der Welt ist, die jedem, der einen Juden ermordet, eine Gehaltszahlung anbietet. Das hatten die Nazis nicht. Die Palästinensische Autonomiebehörde ist einen Schritt weiter als die Nazis. Die Nazis versuchten zu verbergen, was sie taten. Die Palästinensische Autonomiebehörde, die UNRWA, die Hamas tun alles, um publik zu machen, was sie tun. Hier ist nichts geheim.

Und das Wichtigste: Deutschland kann als größter Geber von UNRWA die Rehabilitation und Neuansiedlung dieser Menschen fördern, die seit 1949 in Flüchtlingslagern leben.

SF: Wo kann man sich über dieses Thema informieren?

DB: Wir haben eine deutschsprachige Website, auf der man weitere Informationen zum Thema UNRWA finden kann. Ich betone, dass wir privat finanziert werden. Wir bekommen von keiner Regierung auch nur einen Cent. Wer spenden will, tut dies bitte, auf der Website erfährt er, wie das am einfachsten geht.

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