David Bedein
JOURNALIIST

Adopt a 5 point UNRWA Peace Initiative

67 UN member nations and 33 relief agencies * fund a $1.6 billion UNRWA budget, 58% of which is earmarked for education.

*https://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help/how-we-spend-funds

UNRWA donors** can contribute to a lasting peace by encouraging an UNRWA PEACE INITIATIVE:

**HTTPS://WWW.UNRWA.ORG/HOW-YOU-CAN-HELP/GOVERNMENT-PARTNERS/FUNDING-TRENDS

UNRWA CANNOT BE ELIMINATED. IT IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE UN . HOWEVER, CHANGES CAN BE MADE IN UNRWA POLICIES

1.Cancellation of the new UNRWA curriculum, based on Jihad, martyrdom and “right of return by force of arms”, which have no place in UN education, whose theme is “Peace Begins Here”.

2.Disarmament of UNRWA schools and cessation of paramilitary training connected to all UNRWA schools. It is an absurdity that UNRWA, a UN agency with a purported commitment to “peace education”, allows such arms training and missile fire in proximity of its premises.

3.Insisting that UNRWA dismiss employees affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Fatah in accordance with laws of donor nations that forbid aid to any agency that employs members of a terrorist organization.

4. Introducing UNHCR standards to advance resettlement of fourth- and fifth-generation refugees from the 1948 war who have spent seven decades relegated to refugee status. Current UNRWA policy is that any Arab refugee resettlement would interfere with the “right of return” to pre-1948 Arab localities.

By adopting the stance of Arab maximalists, UNRWA flouts its commitment to assist the Arab refugees from 1948 and their descendants.

5. Demanding an audit of donor funds that emanate from 68 nations. This would address documented reports of wasted resources, duplication of services and an undesired flow of cash to the terror groups that dominate UNRWA operations.

How to support The UNRWA Peace Initiative: https://israelbehindthenews.com/donations

About the Author
David Bedein, who grew up in Philadelphia and moved to Israel in 1970 at the age of 20, is an MSW community organizer by profession and an expereinced investigative journalist. In 1987 he established the Israel Resource News Agency, with offices at the Beit Agron Int’l Press Center in Jerusalem, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research. In 1991, Bedein was the special CNN middle east radio correspondent. Since 2001, Bedein has contributed features to the newspaper Makor Rishon. In 2006, Bedein became the foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. He is the author of " The Genesis of the Palestinian Authority" and "ROADBLOCK TO PEACE- How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict: UNRWA policies reconsidered"and the director and producer of the numerous short films about UNRWA policy which can be located at: http://tinyurl.com/lxc6xvs. DAVID NOW RUNS HIS OFFICE A JERUSALEM CAPITAL STUDIOS, 206 JAFFA ROAD. JERUSALEM
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