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shira

(30,109 posts)
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:14 AM Oct 2016

UNESCO adopts another resolution ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount

Proving one week later, the deliberate intent to deny Jewish rights to the Temple Mount. After all, if the UNESCO resolution was really about occupation & the denial of Palestinian rights, there'd be no point denying any Jewish rights or ties to the Temple Mount. This has now happened twice in the past couple weeks. It's clearly deliberate, not an innocent omission. Pure 100% antisemitism.


In secret ballot, cultural body’s World Heritage Committee approves text using only the site’s Muslim name; 10 states vote in favor, 2 oppose, 8 abstain

BY RAPHAEL AHREN October 26, 2016, 11:48 am

An important panel at the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday morning approved a controversial resolution that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount. The decision came a week after a similar resolution was approved by the body and elicited angry responses from Israel, several world leaders and even the body’s own director-general....

http://www.timesofisrael.com/unesco-adopts-another-resolution-erasing-jewish-link-to-temple-mount/
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UNESCO adopts another resolution ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount (Original Post) shira Oct 2016 OP
Here are the countries on that committee oberliner Oct 2016 #1
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
1. Here are the countries on that committee
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 10:39 AM
Oct 2016

Angola, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Cuba, Finland, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Tunisia, Turkey, United Republic of Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe

Amazing that there were even 2 oppose votes among that group.

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