David Bedein
ARTICLES BY: David Bedein
UNRWA Complains About Funding While Training Children to Wage War
Over the past month, reports have circulated that members of the US House of Representatives' Middle East Subcommittee have raised concerns that humanitarian aid is...
Why Is a Study of Palestinian School Books Being Kept Secret from the US Congress?
Why does the US State Department continue to block the publication of the congressional investigation of Palestinian textbooks taught in schools run by the United...
Why Does the US Continue to Fund UNRWA?
As I recently outlined in The Algemeiner, the UN's Palestinian relief agency -- UNRWA -- continues to promote hatred, antisemitism and jihad in its education materials. The...
UNRWA Textbooks Still Contain Endless Incitement
In response to its critics, UNRWA reviewed its textbooks and teaching materials -- and found that three percent of the total pages were inconsistent with the UN values of...
Don’t Cut Off UNRWA, Try to Reform It
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, has now questioned the credibility of UNRWA as a recipient of American aid. By no small coincidence, the...
US Must Include ‘Sovereignty’ in Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act
President Trump did Israel a favor when he delayed the US embassy move to Jerusalem. Why? Because current wording in the US Embassy Relocation Act would...
If We Can’t Dismantle UNRWA, Here’s How We Can Reform It
Virtually every media outlet took the recent UNRWA condemnation of Hamas terror tunnels found under an UNRWA school at face value. Yet none of these outlets acknowledged...
The Moral Imperative to Refuse an Immoral Order
Israel is one of the few nations that allow for a soldier to refuse an order, if he deems the directive from his commander to run...
The US Must Prepare for Terrorist Reprisals During the Mosul Campaign by Emulating Israel
When US President (and Commander in Chief) Barack Obama directed US troops to lead the fight to liberate Mosul from the claws of ISIS, he...
This Yom Kippur, ‘Who Will Live and Who Will Die’ Is on the Minds of Israelis in Particular
The defining moment of Yom Kippur occurs when people in the synagogue chant the Unetanneh Tokef prayer: “How many will pass from the earth and...
Is the US Complicit in UNRWA-Hamas Cooperation?
Last week, officials of World Vision, an internationally known humanitarian organization, were indicted for secretly abetting military activities of Hamas, designated by the US as a foreign...
The Time Has Come for UNRWA Reform: A Solution to the Palestinian Refugee Dilemma
A mantra is repeated almost every day in Middle East parlance: the need for a policy initiative that would extract the region from a simmering status...
What If Israel Is Forced to Fire at Missile Bases in Schools in Southern Lebanon?
Israeli reconnaissance has documented thousands of missiles that have been planted and ready to fire from the cover of schools and clinics, strategically placed throughout southern Lebanon. If and...
Demanding Transparency in Middle East Education Policy
Back in March, Dr. Anthony Harper, a correspondent with the Intermountain Christian News and member of the White House press corps, asked a question of the spokespeople...
