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 […]
by David Bedein The United States government has announced the renewal of aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which the U.N. created as a “temporary” entity in the wake of the Israel War of Independence, to help […]
by David Bedein The current “cease fire” proposal now discussed in Gaza is anything but a cease fire. Indeed, a real “cease fire” might result in the kind of armistice that ended hostilities in World War I, on the 11th hour of […]
by David Bedein UNRWA has faced a difficult week. On Sept. 9, the UNRWA donor nations gathered for a conference in Amman to launch a new school year for half a million students who learn in UNRWA schools located in 59 72-year-old “temporary” UNRWA refugee […]
by David Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research The Palestinian Authority is in deep crisis as the United States has sharply cut direct aid to the Palestinians and other assistance to them via the United Nations, amid reports of […]
by David Bedein The news and research office that I have been running since 1987 focuses on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, with the hope that the 5.3 million descendants of […]
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana introduced the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act to address whether Palestinian students are being taught inaccurate or racist content about Israel and the Jewish people. “The Middle East will never experience peace until […]
by David Bedein This essay is dedicated to the 1,409 men, women and children who were murdered as a result of the Oslo process, which involved unilateral concessions to an unrepentant terrorist organization, a policy conceived by Israeli politician Shimon […]
UNRWA textbook featuring Palestinian terrorist Dalal Mughrabi as a role model for children. (Photo: https://www.bnaibrith.ca/) by David Bedein This week, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East discerned that the United States will […]
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah, May 25, 2021. Credit: Flash90. by David Bedein The events of the past two weeks have vindicated my conclusion, after 36 years of […]
by David Bedein It is the role of a wartime journalist to convey the context of war. The Palestinian Authority, part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, makes it clear: it is in a full state of war to obliterate the […]