As the following article indicates, senior White House official and son in law Jared Kushner has developed a full blown alliance with Saudi Arabia

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/middleeast/saudi-mbs-jared-kushner.html

Yet Saudi Arabia, which last week granted an unrestricted $50 million to UNRWA, at a time when UNRWA facilities in Gaza have been fully taken over by Hamas terrorists, remains in a full state of war with Israel unlike all of the other Arab nations who attacked Israel in 1948.

In that context, there are questions that Kushner should be asking of Ryadh:

Will Saudi Arabia cancel that state of war?

Will Saudi Arabia continue to fund UNRWA schools which indoctrinate the next generation to liberate Palestine under the slogan of the “right of return by force of arms”?

Will Saudi Arabia continue to support the Arab boycott of Israel?

Will Saudi Arabia continue funding anti- Israel curriculum in Universities?

Some background is in order. In December 1989. I asked a close Reagan advisor, Dr. Alan Keyes, who served as under Sac’s of State for Inter organization Affairs, as to why the Reagan Administrationsuddenly turned on Israel in favor of recogition of the PLO in December of 1988, one year earlier.

Dr. Keyes gave a clear response: The Saudis, fearful that the PLO, then facilitating the successful Intifada insurrection against Israel, expressed fears that the PLO would organize an Intifada resurrection in Saudi Arabia which would result in the PLO burning their oil fields, while destabilizing the Arab and world economy.

Reagan’s unconditional acceptance of the PLO has marked US Middle East policy until the inauguration of the Trump Administration. Will that unconditional US acceptance of the PLO now resume , as a gesture to the Saudis, once again?

Stay tuned.

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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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