Paris – UNESCO: Cave Of The Patriarchs; Kever Rachel Part Of “Occupied Palestine”

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    Tomb of PatriarchsParis – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board has adopted resolutions 28 and 29, stating that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem are both “an integral part of the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.

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    The resolutions, titled “Occupied Palestine,” went on to condemn any “Israeli measures aimed at altering the character, status and demographic composition of the Occupied Palestinian territory.” The language in the resolutions, sponsored by Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, Qatar, Sudan and Morocco, repeatedly referred to Israel as the “occupier” in Hebron and Bethlehem.

    Last December, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed Israel’s envoy to UNESCO Carmel Shama Hacohen to officially announce Israel’s withdrawal from the organization, two months after US President Donald Trump ordered that the United States withdraw due to an “anti-Israel bias.”

    Israel was set to officially withdraw from the UN body on December 31st 2018, after being a member since 1949, however, in June, in response to efforts by newly appointed UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, a French-Moroccan Jew, to combat the anti-Israeli bias within the organization, Shama Hacohen said: “Israel shouldn’t ignore the new spirit that is blowing in its direction from UNESCO,” adding that “together with the US, [Israel] should reevaluate the question of leaving or at least weigh the possibility of a certain delay so we send a positive signal to all involved.”

    In September, Azoulay extended an invitation to Prime Minister Netanyahu to participate in a conference organized by UNESCO aimed at combating anti-Semitism, to which he declined.

    “While I commend all efforts to combat anti-Semitism, I have decided not to participate in this week’s UNESCO conference on anti-Semitism due to the organization’s persistent and egregious bias against Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement, adding that “since 2009, UNESCO has passed 71 resolutions condemning Israel and only two resolutions condemning all other countries combined. This is simply outrageous.”

    Netanyahu asserted that, should UNESCO want to remove it’s “mark of shame”, “it must do more than host a conference on anti-Semitism. It must stop practicing anti-Semitism, and it must stop the absurdity of passing resolutions that deny the connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel – between the Jewish people and our eternal capital, Jerusalem.”


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    anon6
    Trusted Member
    anon6
    5 years ago

    Revisionist history…nothing new here.

    5 years ago

    No surprise this news comes out of france. A hotbed for Muslims extremists to commit violence against its jewish citizens Yet we should believe them about climate change?.

    PureSatmar
    PureSatmar
    5 years ago

    Correct indeed

    MrSmith
    MrSmith
    5 years ago

    So was Mameh Rochel Mohamed’s mother too, who knows they can change that part of history too

    thegreatone
    thegreatone
    5 years ago

    To simplify things:
    The entire Israel of today is occupied territory.
    As Rashi explains in beginning of last weeks Parsha “For should the peoples of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you took by force the lands of the seven nations of Canaan”, Israel may reply to them, “All the earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleased. When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed He took it from them and gave it to us”

    And he did give it to us with strict conditions. We failed miserably as we say every Yom Tov “mipnei chataeinu galinu mei’artzeinu” – “for our sins we were exiled from our land”.

    5 years ago

    As long as Mashiach did not redeem us then ALL of Israel is occupied territories by Zionists.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    since 2009, UNESCO has passed 71 resolutions condemning Israel and only two resolutions condemning all other countries combined…………….Need I say more?

    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    5 years ago

    UNESCO has been and remains antisemitic, anti-Israel and very pro-Arab. Did we expect an even shake from them?