By David Bedein
This week, Canadian Foreign Minister has announced that he will visit areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority to inquire as to how foreign aid funds are being spent, in order to determine whether Canada should indeed renew foreign aid to the PA.
While it would seem natural for the foreign minister of a respected democracy to ask for an accounting of how foreign funds are being spent by a nascent entity, Canada is the first government to officially engage in an accountability process with the fledgling Palestinian Authority.
Here is a suggested ten step process as to how the Canadian Foreign Minister, The Hon. John Baird, could conduct an inquiry into the accountability of funds administered by the Palestinian Authority
Step One: Enter a Palestinian Authority classroom. Examine the new PA curriculum whose focus revolves around preparation of a new generation to conquer all of Palestine. Most recently, the Center for Near East Policy Research dispatched a TV crew to follow the classrooms of Palestinian Authority schools that are located in UNRWA facilities and witnessed teachings which did not focus on peace or reconciliation:
Translations of the new Palestinian Authority school books yielded the conclusion that they focused on a curriculum of “suspended war”
Step Two: Peruse l news output of the PBC (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation) radio and TV. Follow the messages of Jihad conveyed by the PBC to the Palestinian Arab people, the PBC adulation of Palestinians who committed suicide attacks, and PBC news clips which laud attacks on Beer Sheva, Sderot, Ashkelon,and Ashdod, which PBC terms “illegal Jewish settlements”, since these Israeli cities which have been shelled by missiles are located on lands lost to the Arabs in 1948 – not 1967.
Step Three: Spend time in an UNRWA facility, where thousands of descendants of Arab refugees languish under the premise and promise of the “Right of Return”. While nearby Palestinian Authority urban areas flourish. Note how the new Palestinian city, Rawabi, built near teeming UNRWA refugee facilities, will not allow UNRWA camp residents to live in the new Palestinian city. Meanwhile, in August 2012, Hamas terror groups won their fourth consecutive election to take charge of the UNRWA trade union and the UNRWA teachers union in Gaza, Ask for a report on UNRWA Hamas cooperation..
Step Four: Peruse www.PalestineRemembered.com The “Right of Return” computer program that operates throughout the Palestinian Authority, which helps UNRWA residents to locate the villages of their grandparents from 1948 even though these towns no longer exist, to prepare them to realize their “right of return:.
Step Five Visit Palestinian Authority controlled mosques on Friday. Follow the incendiary message conveyed by the mosques that function under funding and control of the PA.
Step Six Review all new official maps that are published by the Palestinian Authority, which show all of Palestine as the location of any future Palestinian state.
Step Seven Visit the PA Security Force. Following the expectation that the PA Security Force would be engagedto crush the Hamas, review reports of Hamas-Palestinian Authority cooperation. While the PA security force has worked with Israel on matters of petty crime,the PA will not take on Hamas. Moreover, the PA has no laws against money laundering for terror groups and PA statutes do not define any group as a terrorist organization.
General Yaakov Amidror, former head of the IDF’s Research and Assessment Division and currently serving as Security Adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu, observed that:
“There is a huge difference in the Palestinian view between law enforcement, which is seen as legitimate, and anti-terrorism, which is NOT seen as legitimate.”
Step Eight: Ask for an evaluation of the food distribution program in Gaza, which the Hamas regime in Gaza and UNRWA have been running. Funds are delivered in cash dollars at the Gaza crossing to UNRWA, once a month, in the amount of $13 million. How much funds are geared to the purchase of food? Does the Hamas regime siphon off some of the foreign aid cash for the purchase of munitions or for any other purpose? Why is there a demand for “cash delivery”? What follow up reports have been submitted to the donor countries on funds delivered to the UNRWA food distribution program?
Step Nine Review the published political program of Palestinian Prime Minister Salman Fayad, who has earned a reputation as a “moderate” and note Fayad’s endorsement of a Palestinian Jerusalem (no mention of East Jerusalem, the Palestinian “right of return” to villages from 1948 that no longer exist, and the demand to free all Palestinians in Israeli jails, ignoring the fact that this includes thousands of Palestinians who have been convicted of first degree murder in a court of law. Fayad’s paper “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State:Program of the Thirteenth Government – August 2009”
Step Ten: Review recent speeches of Palestinian leader Machmud Abbas, where Abbas himself conveys consistent praise for Palestinians who have murdered civilians. Review the telecast New Years speech of Abbas where he concludes his litany of praise for killers with a salute to the legacy of Hitler’s ally, Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem.
“Watch out America, here they come and Islam comes first.’
They’re already in America, and more powerful there than in Canada, and they didn’t get there via Canada. Pat Buchannan is one of those “old boys” who pretend that the Muslim horde is entering USA from Canada. This is a myth and a lie. There are many Muslims in the FBI. I could go on. But, please, stop perpetuating the myth that all Muslims in America came from Canada. This just isn’t true.
McMaster took Paul Williams to court. I met him in Texas while on a security detail with B’nai Elim.
The problem with McMaster is that the Muslim prof does the security checks. That’s like hiring a fox to watch the hen-house.
I repeat, Shoukri presides over the university with the most anger against Israel because he refuses to take action.
Breaking news: Canada’s Largest Student Group Joins BDS Movement as Vote’s Validity Questioned
McMaster had a fellow named Mamdouh Shoukri where he was Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He then became the President of York University around the time the Williams story broke about missing nuclear material.
York University is ranked 6th (2012) for largest Jewish student population in North America and, I think, the highest in Canada. Shoukri presides over the university with the most anger against Israel because he refuses to take action. Major Jewish donors are also satisfied with the status quo of Jew hate.
All of the nuclear facilities in Canadian universities have a disproportionate number of Egyptians and Muslims because they have worked their way to top positions and then hire their own. Watch out America, here they come and Islam comes first.
Whether or not there is any malfeasance taking place, it would behoove these universities to do their due diligence by closely inspecting ALL employees (Muslim and non-Muslim) with a fine tooth comb from a security perspective but that is not happening.
http://mailman.mcmaster.ca/mailman/private/cdn-nucl-l/0705/msg00041.html
I’m sorry, it was McMaster University, not McGill.
I spoke in Ottawa on behalf of B’nai Elim to a Government committee designated to hear public objections to McGill University having its license to operate a nuclear reactor renewed. One of the top faculty members in charge of the nuclear reactor is a Muslim who was educated in Egypt. He was also in charge of screening those who were allowed inside the nuclear reactor facility. Such irony. This Muslim prof glared at me when I began speaking until I motioned to the police security detail and told him them that the good professor was glaring at me. I was given a police escort out of the building.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/klaus053007.htm
No thanks!!! We already have plenty of terrorists, potential terrorists, Islamists swarming campuses and introducing new forms of Jew hate every year, Iranians threatening Canada, Muslim Brotherhood on campus, etc.
In the past two days we learned that two students of a London, Ontario high school were found dead at a site in Algeria where they were participating in a deadly terror attack.
Two Lebanese-Canadian brothers were involved in the killing of 6 Israelis in Bulgaria.
We were also the home of Ahmed Ressam the Millennium bomber.
Canada is a hotspot for terrorists. There was even an unsubstantiated rumor of 180lb of nuclear material gone missing from a campus nuclear reactor.
Please, keep all Islamists and others with visions of Islamic supremacy dancing through their brains far, far away.
“It’s no accident that the fakestians are the darlings of the entire world to the exclusions of myriads of infinitely more deserving and authentic “peoples”.
“There is a simple one word explanation for this phenomena: – antisemitism.
“Does anyone seriously believe that if their conflict was with anyone other the Jewish people, this would be the case?
“Would the world have even heard of a “Palestinian” people had the Jews not re-established their state in their ancient homeland?”
Awesome post, Yidvocate. I’m copying this down in my notes.
@ Dean:
“Just imagine how Canadians, British, Europeans, and Americans would feel if Israel went into their countries to fund Al Quaeda. . . ”
Right on! This is the best analysis of the mindless, foolish, brain-dead West who see the Pals as starving and pitiful. You point out their wealth and military assets while keeping their people in ignorance and intense antisemitism, in constant jealousy of Israel’s incredible achievements while putting all their energies into Jihad.
If they would only give their young people a decent unprejudiced education and establish a vibrant local economy there might be hope for them. But we all know that’s not going to happen soon, if at all. Golda Meir famously said (paraphrasing) peace would not come until the Arabs learned to love their children more than they hated the Jews.Steve:
I agree with Steve that it’s high time the West looked into where their money is going, but I have great reservations that they will get a true picture of the region. The Pals will probably put up a reverse Potemkin Village to display severe poverty while keeping signs of progress under wraps. If the Canadian foreign minister John Baird is leftist by nature he will not make a fair assessment of the disposition of Canada’s funds. Someone said a day or so ago that Canada was prepared to pay $13,000,000.00 to resettle Palestinians outside Israel. That was great to hear, but will it happen?
@ Dean:
Dean, your right on the money.
They hate the West and Israel.
Are we gluttons for punishment???
YES
Stop the world I want to get off.
Many, many years ago in 8th grade, our sister (IHM nun) said we would meet people in life who have backbones of Jelly Fish.
Our leaders of today.
Well done Canada. It’s time a country stepped into see where their money is going.
Just imagine how Canadians, British, Europeans and Americans would feel if Israel went into their countries to fund Al Qaeda and other terrorists and make assessments and calculations on how much and in what form to give to terrorism against Western nations? There would be an open military war against Israel rather than the surreptitious, indirect war currently being waged by the West against Israel.
The Arabs do not need charity. People who are starving DO NOT:
1) Have money to buy the best arms in the world, fund WMD and elaborate nuclear weapons installations,
2) Have time to pray to their g-d of hate with their fat, well-fed asses in the air 5 times daily,
3) Have the money to build mosques, hotels, and malls even in their poorest regions such as the terror enclave of Gaza,
4) Have the biggest pool of energy (oil and gas) in the world,
5) Have 56 countries, 22 in the Middle East, with a population of 1.5 billion,
6) Have slaves in their palaces and engage in the slave trade to this day in many parts of Africa,
7) Have the strength and determination to wipe themselves out with jihad and sharia as is happening throughout the Middle East,
8) Have the luxury of teaching their children terrorism against the “infidels” instead of how to make a real living and to feed themselves,
Canada, Europe and America: give to people who need charity, not to terrorists. Stop funding the war against Israel and stop robbing your taxpayers to kill Jews. By giving to terror groups you are starving people in the third world who really deserve charity and you are feeding terrorists who have attacked you and will do so again. Anti-Zionism is Racism.
It’s no accident that the fakestians are the darlings of the entire world to the exclusions of myriads of infinitely more deserving and authentic “peoples”.
There is a simple one word explanation for this phenomena: – antisemitism.
Does anyone seriously believe that if their conflict was with anyone other the Jewish people, this would be the case?
Would the world have even heard of a “Palestinian” people had the Jews not re-established their state in their ancient homeland?
@ Dean:
Dean for President.
Let’s run with this.
Canada and every other country, the UN and NGOs must not give a dime to the PA or Hamas because doing so sponsors terrorism. Those who give money to terrorists are aiding and abetting terrorism, and they must be considered enemies of Israel as plainly as those firing rockets into Israel. Let’s make one thing very clear, Arabs have no need for charity and there are people going starving because so much aid is being drained from international coffers which is going to the terrorists surrounding and targeting Israel. If I were in charge, I would siphon off all funds entering “Palestinian” territories, banks and institutions until they comply with all of my demands to stop violence, hate-mongering, systemic terrorism as specified in their Charters, Islamic supremacy, child abuse in their homes and schools and intolerance in their Mosques.