David Bedein, STONEGATE INSTITUTE
“Jihad and sacrifice [fida] are imperative.”
 Mural of Ayat al–Akhras on the outside of the Palestinian Authority school that she attended in the UNRWA refugee facility of Deheishe. Ayat al–Akhras, who graduated that school, blew herself up at a Jerusalem supermarket, killing a security guard an 18 year old Israeli girl, Rachel Levy, who had grown up in the US.. After Ayat al–Akhras carried out the homicide, the UNRWA school held a memorial for her and commissioned paintings of her throughout the school and on the entrance to the school. Photo Credit: Attorney Rhonda Spivak, Publisher, The Winnipeg Jewish Review |
A comprehensive paper on the “Right of Return” as the central theme in all of UNRWA education, affecting 500,000 Arab pupils, was presented to the US Congress on January 26, 2012 by Dr. Arnon Groiss, a senior official of the Voice of Israel Arabic Language Service.
The paper was commissioned by Council for Religious Institutions in the Holy Land, an association of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian leaders, which was established under the auspices of the governments of the US, Norway, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Over the past 12 years, Dr. Grioss, who holds a PHD in Islamic Studies from Princeton and was appointed to the blue ribbon advisory council which monitors incitement during Middle East negotiations, reviewed all of the more the 200 new schoolbooks used by the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA, in a curriculum that is also used by the Hamas schools.
Dr. Groiss noted that in the UNRWA schools, the textbook for Grade 9, Reading and Texts, asks students to “reconcile between the following poetical lines and the feelings they express”: “The morning of glory and red liberty watered by the martyrs’ blood… the hope for the Liberation of Palestine.”
The 8th-grade version of Reading and Texts states: “Your enemies killed your children; split open your women’s bellies, took your revered elderly people by the beard, and led them to the death pits…”
In the textbook entitled National Education, for Grade Seven, UNRWA pupils are taught:
The Zionist colonialist greedy ambitions in Palestine started in 1882…. The coming of the Jewish throngs to Palestine continued until 1948 and their goal was taking over the Palestinian lands and then taking the original inhabitants’ place after their expulsion and extermination….
The 7th-grade textbook, Our Beautiful Language, features a poem entitled “The Martyr”: “Hearing weapons’ clash is pleasant to my ear and the flow of blood gladdens my soul/ As we as a body thrown upon the ground skirmished over by the desert predators/…By your life! This is the death of men and whoever asks for a noble death – here it is!”
The 5th-grade version of Our Beautiful Language includes a poem entitled “We Shall Return,” which advocates the “Right of Return”– by force:
“Return, return, we shall return/ Borders shall not exist, nor citadels and fortresses/ Cry out, O those who have left:/ we shall return!/ [We] shall return to the homes, to the valleys, to the mountains/ Under the flag of glory, Jihad and struggle/ With blood, sacrifice [fida], fraternity and loyalty/ We shall return/… To jihad in the hills; [to] harvest in the land.”
Other language in the texts appears to justify terrorism. A sentence from the 8th-grade Reading and Texts reads, “O brother, the oppressors have exceeded all bounds and Jihad and sacrifice [fida] are imperative…”
In yet another text, UNRWA pupils are asked to color the Negev Desert on the map of Palestine,” Groiss said, and that “Israel does not exist on any map.”
He showed how every Israeli city – Haifa, Ramle, Jerusalem, Acre – are shown as Palestinian Arab cities, while the Jewish presence in Israel is described in poems which UNRWA pupils are taught to learn by heart, such as “How come the snakes invade us?” and “Oh brother, the oppressors have exceeded all bounds.”
Yet when our agency asks the representatives of US AID who oversee the building of schools in UNRWA whether they look at the curriculum of these schools, they say that they do not do so, and will not do so.
The issue is not whether US AID will “cut off funds” to UNRWA, but why US AID does not place funds for UNRWA in escrow until such abuse of US taxpayers’ funds, which comprise about a quarter of the UNRWA’s budget, looks less like incitement and more like education.
UNWRA is a weapon used against Israel and the Jews. Only the West (+ Japan) supports it financially; not even the Muslim countries.
Why not use the courts to stop this funding rather than always relying on people doing whats right. Surely the funding of genocidal propaganda and incitement must have financial and legal consequences. One could say that all palestinian terrorism may be related indirectly to such funding and therefore there is a responsibility for the damages.
Bland,
Voting for Ron Paul is voting for a NAZI. David Duke supported him – enough said. And those who blame 9/11 on Israel flock to his cause while the little bastard will NEVER repudiate them as President Reagan did to the KKK when they tried to support him.
No, not just a vote for a Nazi. Also a vote for Obama…because Paul and Obama are both pro-Muzzie, anti-Israel, Jew-baiters of the most despicable kind.
We damn well know what the Palestinians will do, after all, they have Ovomit and Shrillary behind their backs. But what is inexcusable is what the Israelis won’t do – that is, blow up the damn building. Bibi and Barak will crawl back into their caves like craven cowards – and indict (or threaten to cut off arms like the POS “Likud” Mayor of Tel-Aviv said he’d do to that Dutch boy who painted “Price Tag” on the Rabin memorial). You know, the same Dutch boy who lost his entire family at the Sbarro Bombingonly to witness Bibi release the surviving murderers several months ago. This is what they do to Jews in Israel today.
And meanwhile we have hot airYamit spewing his pro-Obamist crapola and blasting the USA for things that he and other Israelis won’t do to save not only themselves but their country, and then trying to smear others for pointing this out to them.
Hey Yamit, here’s a building you and your friends can at least paint “Price Tag” on it, if you’re unwilling or too afraid of the traitor Barak to do anything else. Of course you’d say why don’t you come here and do it yourself. Trouble is, I know I’d be arrested if I did, and you’d still sit back and do nothing but keep voting the Bibis, the Baraks, the Livnis and Yacimovitchs back in. . .
It’s because of foreign aid monstrosities such as this, that I support Ron Paul. His plan to cut off ALL foreign aid is like music to my ears. Believe me, if the other candidates consistently supported such an aid-cutting agenda, I would support them too. It is absolutely insane, to throw around so much money that we don’t have, to beef up such unworthy, unprofitable and un-American causes.
Israel should kill the families of every suicide bomber. I guarantee these subhuman beasts would never blow themselves up. The world wants to kill every Jew or at best doesn’t care if every Jew is murdered. How much worse can the Jews’ position in Israel become. Whatever money or votes in the UN the cockaroach in the white house who is loved by JINOs gives Israel , he harms Israel 10 times more than helps Israel. China is interested in having an economic relationship . Between China, India and other countries. Israel could more than make up for the money they must spend in the US. Israel should also evict all foreign correspondents who are nothing but allies of the subhuman Fakestinian Jew killers. Israel has something no other nation possesses: the people with highest mean IQs in the world Ashkenazi Jews. If someone made a list of Jews who deserved to win real Nobel prizes (not the bulls–t “Peace” or “Literature) but never won one, it would be longer than the list of winners from almost every country in the world. Just to name a few : Leo Szilard, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Jonas Salk, Sabin are just a few. For example, Leo Szilard could have won the Nobel prize for several different discoveries /inventions ncluding the Electron Microscope, the nuclear reactor , the first paper on information theory . Yet,Bibi was treated like shit by Obongo who is qualified to shine Bibi’s shoes.
Were the US and all other donors countries opposed to the treachery of the UNRWA, they would need no prodding to stop funding.
Obviously, they have no objections, so let the funds flow freely!!!
“The issue is not whether US AID will “cut off funds” to UNRWA, but why US AID does not place funds for UNRWA in escrow until such abuse of US taxpayers’ funds, which comprise about a quarter of the UNRWA’s budget, looks less like incitement and more like education.”
I disagree, it is much better if they cut off the funds.