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| UNESCO adopts another resolution ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount | |
| 2016-10-27 | |
| [IsraelTimes] In secret ballot, cultural body’s World Heritage Committee approves text using only the site’s Moslem name; 10 states vote in favor, 2 oppose, 8 abstain. This year’s member countries of the committee made things particularly difficult for Israeli diplomats battling the resolution. Germany, Colombia and Japan, all sympathetic nations to Israel, are no longer involved, and in their place are Tunisia, Kuwait, Leb and Indonesia, bringing to nine the total number of Moslem countries. Those nine and Vietnam were all assumed to have voted for the resolution. Poland, Finland, Croatia, Portugal, the four European countries, had indicated they would abstain. The 21 nations with voting rights on the World Heritage Committee were: Finland, Poland, Portugal, Croatia, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Azerbaijan, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Kuwait, Leb, Peru, Cuba, Jamaica, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Zim-bob-we, Angola and Tanzania. The resolution, which accuses Israel of various violations, echoed last week’s decision in referring to the Temple Mount compound solely by its Moslem names, "Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram al-Sharif," and defined it only as "a Moslem holy site of worship." As the site of the two Biblical temples, the mount is the holiest place in Judaism. But unlike last week’s resolution, the draft did not mention the importance of Jerusalem’s Old City for "the three monotheistic religions."
[IsraelTimes] Reference to consignment of wineskins ’to Jerusalem’ appears on 2,700-year-old First Temple-era scrap believed plundered from Judean Desert cave | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Wall St. Journal: Oct. 25, 2015. A 10-year-old Russian boy..., recently made an extraordinary discovery in Jerusalem. Working..., in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, he found a 3,000-year-old seal—engraved limestone about the size of a thimble, with a hole at one end so it could be hung from a string—from the time of King David. The artifact was nestled in the hundreds of tons of earth and rock that had been illegally excavated from below the Temple Mount in the late 1990s by the Muslim Waqf, a trust that retains authority over the contested site. The Temple Mount is sacred ground for Jews, Muslims and Christians, but Jewish historical claims are denied by many Muslims. |
| Posted by: Craique the Kid6652 2016-10-27 07:39 |
| #1 And UNESCO matters because? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-27 01:34 |