Dear Editor,

Trump administration to end U.S. funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees Washington Post, August 30, 2018.

represents an inaccurate news item.

Following the US government decision to cut off $65 million from the annual $360 million US allocation to UNRWA, the pr firm working for UNRWA has issued continuing inaccurate memos that the US has cut off between 90% and 100% of its allocation to UNRWA. This overtstated UNRWA statement about the US cutback to UNRWA has infuenced the other 67 donor nations to UNRWA to continue and increase their aid to UNRWA, which operates on a budget of $1.2 billion. On June 20, international refugee day, UNRWA conducted a press conference in which the Palestnian refugee agency declared that they were bereft of funds, thanks to the total US cutback to UNRWA. The next day, the Center for Near East Policy Research contacted 44 UNRWA donors, all of whom confirmed that they were continuting their allocations,full force. Now UNRWA states once again that the US will cut all funding, despite the fact that US ambassador to the UN, Nicki Haley, clarified, once agaiin, in an August 28 public policy statement to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies that the precise amount that the US cut off from UNRWA was $65 million.

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David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center’s investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict – UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein’s 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education’   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein’s work can be found at:www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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