David Bedein
JOURNALIIST

Essential Questions not Being Asked of Nations that will Recognize a Planned Palestinian State

Currently, there are a number of essential questions not evem asked of nations that plan to recognize a planned Palestinian State.
Journalists should pose these questions to the foreign ministers of the UK, France, Norway, Canada, Australia and New Zealand:
• Will the planned Palestinian state abolish the Palestinian Charter, which mandates the destruction of Israel?
• Will the planned Palestinian state revoke the law that guarantees salaries to anyone who murders a Jew?
• Will the planned Palestinian state remove texts that glorify those who murder kill Jews?
• Will the planned Palestinian state eliminate educational materials that glorify the murder of Jews?
• In the maps of the planned Palestinian state, will the State of Israel appear alongside it?
• Will the planned Palestinian state cancel the slogan of the “Right of Return through armed struggle”?
• Will the planned Palestinian state indeed abide by the Palestine State Constitution based on Koranic Sharia Law?

CONTEXT
In 2003, the Vatican Ambassador to the Holy Land, Archbishop Msgr. Pietro Sambi, known as the Papal Nuncio, warned a US Congressional delegation that the new Palestinian State constitution, funded by USAID, provided no juridical status whatsoever for any religion other than Islam in the emerging Palestinian Arab entity.

I covered that briefing at the time for the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon and for FrontPage Magazine.
At that briefing, the Papal Nuncio expressed his concern to visiting US lawmakers that the PA had adopted Sharia Islamic law, based on the model of the Sharia from Koranic edicts as practiced in Iran or in Saudi Arabia.
Article (5) of the official Palestinian State Constitution reads as follows: Arabic and Islam are the official Palestinian language and religion. Christianity and all other monotheistic religions shall be equally revered and respected.
In other words, as Archbishop Sambi noted, other religions such as Christianity, not to mention Judaism, were denied any juridical status under the Palestinian State Constitution.
The status of Islam as the official religion of any future Palestinian Arab entity is also expressed in Article (7) of the official Palestinian State Constitution, which states that:
The principles of Islamic Sharia are a major source for legislation. Civil and religious matters of the followers of monotheistic religions shall be organized in accordance with their religious teachings and denominations within the framework of law, while preserving the unity and independence of the Palestinian people.
The Palestine constitution translation and analysis can be accessed at; https://israelbehindthenews.com/?s=Palestinian%20State%20Constitution.
Islamic nations which have adopted the Sharia law have mandated the absolute supremacy of Muslims over non-Muslims as matter of law.
What worried the Archbishop was that all Christian churches and all Christian schools would be placed under the arbitrary authority of Islamic Fundamental Law, which allows nothing more than tolerance of other religions, at best.
USAID financed the creation of the PA State Constitution, which meant the imposition of the Islamic Law throughout the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.
A research study released by the Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs entitled, The Beleagured Christians, notes that in Egypt, Muslim – but not Christian – schools receive state funding. “It is nearly impossible to restore or build new churches. … Christians are frequently ostracized or insulted in public, and laws prohibit Muslim conversions to Christianity.”
In other words, USAID fostered an Islamic totalitarian state of Palestine, devoid of religious freedom and human rights.

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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