The UN is made up of dozens of Muslim countries and one Jewish
country.
U.N. body votes
Temple Mount no longer Jewish, 'What's
next? A decision denying the connection between peanut butter and jelly?' by
Leo Hohmann, 10/13/16, WND
UNESCO, the United
Nations committee responsible for “cultural understanding,” has given
preliminary approval to a resolution that denies the documented historic Jewish
connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
The vote was 24-6 with
another 26 nations abstaining. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
immediately condemned the resolution as “the theater of the absurd.”
The proposed resolution,
submitted by seven Muslim nations under the title “Item 25: Occupied Palestine”
refers to parts of the site by the Muslim terms, “Al-Aqsa Mosque” and “Haram
al-Sharif” and emphasizes the historic and religious significance of the site
to Islam, but simply ignores evidence of Jewish history at the same
site.
The document refers to
Israel throughout as “the occupying Power” and accuses it of “aggressions and
illegal measures” at the holy site.
UNESCO “firmly deplores
the continuous storming of Al-Aqṣa Mosque/Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif by Israeli
right-wing extremists and uniformed forces, and urges Israel, the occupying
Power, to take necessary measures to prevent provocative abuses that violate
the sanctity and integrity of Al-Aqṣa Mosque/Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif.”
The resolution also
condemns Israel’s construction work in the Western Wall area by referring to it
by its Muslim name “Al-Buraq Plaza,” a reference to the mythical unicorn that
transported the prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem.
In reality, Muhammad
never set foot in Jerusalem or the Temple Mount.
Jonathan Schanzer, vice
president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told
JNS.org that “The move is ironic
in the sense that the Israelis have probably done more than any other sovereign
that has controlled Jerusalem to ensure that all faiths can have access to the
city and practice their faith.”
The resolution condemns
Israeli’s interference with the Waqf, the Jordanian body that administers the
Muslim sites. The resolution makes no mention that the Muslim sites in question
were built on top of the remains of the Jewish “Great Temple” several hundred
years after its destruction by the Romans in the year 70 AD.
The seven sponsors of
the resolution are Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morrocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan.
They introduced it on behalf of the Palestinians.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu issued a statement
on Facebook Thursday which he
titled “The theatre of the absurd continues at the UN.”
The statement reads as
follows: “Today UNESCO adopted its second decision this year denying the Jewish
people’s connection to the Temple Mount, our holiest site for over three
thousand years.
“What’s next? A UNESCO
decision denying the connection between peanut butter and jelly? Batman and
Robin? Rock and roll?
“Is it any wonder the UN
has become a moral farce when UNESCO, the UN body tasked with preserving history,
denies and distorts history? “Israel will continue to fight the lies, hatred
and double standards at the UN.
Video: Israel tightens
security for Jewish New Year “Israel will prevail because truth will prevail.”
The six countries that
voted in support of Israel were: the United States, Great Britain, Lithuania,
the Netherlands, Germany and Estonia. The United States also chastised the
UNESCO executive board for approving the resolution.
A senior administration
official told
The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that
“One-sided, unhelpful resolutions have been a recurring challenge at UNESCO in
recent years, and the United States has strongly opposed these resolutions at
the UNESCO Executive Board.”
UNESCO’s drive to
rewrite the history of the Temple Mount in Islam’s image began shortly after it
accepted the Palestinians as a member state in 2011. The Mount is known to
Muslims the Al-Haram Al Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary), the Jerusalem
Post reports.
Initially they tried and
failed to have it declared a solely Muslim site. Since then, they have
submitted resolutions on Jerusalem at every possible UNESCO meeting that uses
only the Muslims terms for the Temple Mount area and its adjacent wall,
according to the Post.
UNESCO’s executive board
passed such a resolution last April and its 21-member World Heritage Committee
had been poised to do so again in July in Istanbul. That vote was delayed until
Oct. 24-26, when the failed Turkish coup, cut the meeting short.
Since then according to
language of a draft text seen by the Jerusalem Post, a sentence has been
inserted into the text that mentions that Jerusalem and its Old City walls are
holy to all three religions; Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
Carl Gallups, a
Christian pastor in Florida and author of “When the Lion Roars,” among other
books, said the hatred of Israel is a symptom of the last days.
“The Word of God has
much to say about the abject hatred of the revenant nation of Israel in the
last days. It also speaks of Jerusalem ultimately being surrounded by enemies
and, at least, the temple area – being trampled upon by “Gentiles,'” he said.
“To Satan, it is not
enough that an ultimate symbol of an ‘abomination that causes desolation’ (The
Dome of the Rock) is sitting upon the Temple mount — but now, apparently he is
indwelling an organization that fancies itself to be the head of a rising ‘one
world order,’ and attempting to assassinate historical truth in the furthered
cause of alienating Israel in the last days.”
Gallups said the U.N.
wishes to “deny the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount.” Then the
obvious question has to be asked, “Then for whom and for what ‘temple’ was the
mount originally constructed?
“These certainly are the
most profoundly prophetic days since the first coming of Yeshua/Jesus Christ.
And this absurd display of unfettered surrealism is just one more sign of that
continually revealing truth.”
Thursday’s vote was
taken by UNESCO’s 58-member Programme and External Relations Commission in
advance of its ratification next Monday or Tuesday, by UNESCO Executive Board,
made up of the same member states.
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