Israel and the Palestinians
March 4, 2021
by David Bedein The recently incorporated think tank, the Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, has covered the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s education programs for the foreign press and the diplomatic corps ever since August 2000, when […]
March 3, 2021
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Photo by Flash90. by Moshe Phillips Dylan Williams of J Street, in a recent op-ed, called on the Biden administration to “rebuild the U.S. relationship with moderate Palestinian leaders.” Since presumably J Street would not […]
October 21, 2020
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat speaks at a news conference in Ramallah, on Aug. 23. 2010. Photo by Issan Rimawi/Flash90. by Jonathan Feldstein Bless Saeb Erakat’s heart, and lungs. If you don’t know who Erekat is, you’re to be forgiven. […]
October 14, 2020
by Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) — Pundits will tell you that the most dangerous enemies of the Palestinian Arab cause are the Gulf kingdoms that have decided to recognize Israel, or the European countries that are moving their embassies to […]
October 7, 2020
Police and rescue personnel work at the scene of a public bus bombing in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on March 5, 2003. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up aboard the crowded bus, killing at least 12 people […]
September 28, 2020
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rally in Ramallah commemorating the fifth anniversary of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death, Nov. 11, 2009. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90. by Caroline Glick (JNS) — Earlier this month, the Harvard Kennedy School […]
August 13, 2020
by Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom/JNS) — A European Union-sponsored study to examine whether textbooks used by schools in the Palestinian Authority incite against Israel actually examined textbooks in Arabic used in the Israeli school system. The study concluded that P.A. […]
July 16, 2020
by Dr. Arnon Groiss and David Bedein “Demystifying the UNRWA approach to curriculum” is the title given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the refugees of the 1948 war in the Middle East (or, rather, their third […]