David Bedein Archives

David Bedein

David Bedein is director of the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides in his office, October 2022. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.

Questions for the US ambassador to Israel

Will the U.S. follow its own policy of fostering Palestinian recognition of Israel?

David Bedein

May 23, 2023

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center) arrives for a hearing, Dec. 8, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Four questions about the opponents of judicial reform

The vast majority of opponents are sincere, but there are those who are acting in their own self-interest.

David Bedein

March 29, 2023

Israeli Supreme Court Chief of Justice Esther Hayut (center) with other justices at a ceremony held for outgoing Supreme Court Justice George Karra (to her right) at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Why we desperately need Israeli judicial reform

The Israeli Supreme Court has a long history of ignoring the human rights of Jews.

David Bedein

February 5, 2023

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in the southern Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Conditions must be placed on aid to UNRWA

If it does not end its incitement and collaboration with terror, the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency must be defunded.

David Bedein

October 3, 2022

A new film about Shimon Peres whitewashes the consequences of his policies

More than 1,000 people died because of the Israeli politician’s concessions to Palestinian terrorists.

David Bedein

August 14, 2022

Palestinian Authority textbooks. Credit: Matzav.com.

For any chance at peace, the Palestinian education system must be overhauled

The U.S. peace plan calls for Palestinian education reform, and the context cannot be ignored; 20 years of research show that the PLO has transformed Palestinian schools into a tool of war against Israel.

David Bedein

February 4, 2020

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (center) delivers a statement at a conference in Ramallah on Oct. 18, 2014. Photo by Flash90.

The Palestinian Authority donor machine

The overall sentiment of Palestinians is that their government is corrupt. Of 1,200 Palestinians polled, 95.5 percent agreed that there was rampant corruption in the regime run by Mahmoud Abbas.

David Bedein

October 17, 2019

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