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UN declares ancient Jewish holy site is “Palestinian”

Jul 8, 2017 10:26 am By Robert Spencer

The “Palestinian” nationality was invented in the 1960s; now a history is being constructed for it. The U.S. should not just oppose this kind of initiative at the United Nations. It should oppose the United Nations because of this kind of initiative. The UN at this point is simply a tool of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The U.S. should pull out, end all funding, and expel it from New York.

“UN Declares Ancient Jewish Holy Site Is Now Palestinian,” by Russ Read, Daily Caller, July 7, 2017:

A United Nations body ruled Friday that an ancient Jewish holy site is now part of Palestinian heritage.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted to make the Tomb of the Patriarchs and the Old City of Hebron Palestinian heritage sites, despite intense push-back from Israel and the United States. Twelve member states voted in favor of the resolution, which the Palestinians initially put forward, while only three were against it.

UNESCO’s decision sparked a fiery response from Israeli leaders, who feel the organization is being used as a political tool in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

“It’s disappointing and embarrassing to see UNESCO denying history and distorting reality time after time to knowingly serve those who try to wipe the Jewish state off the map,” said Naftali Bennet, Israel’s education minister and chairman of the Israeli UNESCO committee, according to Israeli news site Haaretz. “Israel won’t renew cooperation with UNESCO as long as it continues to serve as a tool for political attacks instead of being a professional organization.”

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki touted the decision as a victory over the U.S. and Israel.

“This vote is a success for a diplomatic battle fought by Palestine on all fronts, in the face of the Israeli and American pressure on the member states … and a failure and a tremendous defeat Israel,” said al-Maliki in a statement, according to the Times of Israel.

The resolution claimed that Hebron’s Old City and the Tomb of the Patriarchs are Palestinian heritage sites, despite hundreds of years of Jewish tradition associated with the areas that predates both the modern Palestinian territories and the Islamic faith.

Jewish tradition claims that Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, are buried at the site. All six are considered the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish faith. The tomb is located in Hebron, in the southwest corner of the West Bank.

The Hebron Jewish Community called on the international community to cut off funding to UNESCO in response to the decision….

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  1. Linde Barrera says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 10:39 am

    The UN is indeed a tool for the Islamists and I hope their funding will be cut off from the US, Israeli and other countries’ governments to this evil, delusional group.

  2. demuslim says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 10:41 am

    very counterintuitive , indeed.

  3. manat bint allaha says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 10:47 am

    but of course it was palestinian.
    in other news, darth vader was kgb.

  4. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 11:02 am

    Many of the UN divisions such as Human Rights, Education, Heritage etc are nothing but propaganda tools of the 57 Muslim majority member states. How is it conceivable that Muslims are on the Human Rights councils? How is it rational that a made up people called ‘palestinians’ who are NEVER mentioned in history prior to 1964 are the legitimate owners of the oldest Biblical Hebrew holy sight in history?

    The CRIMINALS are Not the Islamic block but those who are not Islamic yet support the very Muslims whose only purpose in life is to make Islam the ONLY religion on Earth

    The DESPICABLES are most of the European nations and the State Department who have been FINANCING the Muslims and in most cases either supporting or abstaining from resolutions against Israel, the ONLY democracy in the ME.

    Israel should now take concrete actions to surround Hebron with Jewish homes NEVER to be separated from Israel

    The next few months will determine the fate of Europe because the Tolerant European peoples are coming to the realization that they must NOT tolerate the INTOLERANT Muslims anymore.It is very possible that there will be physical attacks against Muslims starting in one European country which will create a domino effect among the others. Civil war is not too distant anymore and the most CRIMINAL of all are the European elites who have allowed Europe to be INVADED by millions of young male military age Muslims

    I sincerely hope that many of these leaders will be put on trial for TREASON

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • ploome says

      Jul 8, 2017 at 11:25 am

      exactly

      they are hoping that the islamic crocodile eats them last

  5. ploome says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 11:23 am

    you an blame the UN all you want, but the reality is

    GENEVA, July 5, 2017 – Yesterday, the 21-member UNESCO World Heritage Committee adopted an annual resolution that targets Israel and denies its sovereignty over Jerusalem.

    The resolution received 10 Yes votes, and 8 abstentions. Among the abstentions were all 4 of the EU countries on the committee: Croatia, Finland, Poland, and Portugal.

    The only 3 countries to vote No were Burkina Faso, Jamaica, and the Philippines.

    Due to a rule requiring a two-thirds majority for the resolution to be adopted,

    the 4 EU countries that abstained had the power to block the resolution.

    Only 3 additional No votes would have been required.

    ……………https://www.unwatch.org/unesco-world-heritage-committee-adopts-resolution-targeting-israel-jerusalem/

    the muslims cannot do this without the COMPLICITY OF ANTISEMITE EUROPEANS

    they all hate Jews more than they care about self preservation

    • Donald R Laster Jr says

      Jul 8, 2017 at 11:31 am

      The “Left” has always used the Jews as scapegoats. The International Socialist and the National Socialist did it in the 1900s and the it was done by the European royalty going back centuries.

    • Jim says

      Jul 9, 2017 at 12:53 pm

      Re:Poland. Kinda sickening the way Trump flattered those anti Semitic Jew haters, the Poles. I tried to tell myself, That was then, perhaps Poland is different now.

      Their abstention speaks. Do they want to stand with the West? Apparently only when it pertains to fending off an Islamic takeover. When it comes to defending Israel, same old Poles.

  6. Donald R Laster Jr says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 11:26 am

    This is standard routine by Islamics and their supporters – destroy real history and claim it theirs if needed. There are no such people as “Palestinians”. The people claiming the name are primarily people who lived in Syria, Jordan, and other Arab controlled areas. Until the Jews moved back the whole areas was desolate. All of the history in the area is JEWISH. But the Islamics don’t like that so they continue their pretense. Islamics have created nothing of value since the theocracy was created. They would have destroyed the pyramids if they could have when they invaded Egypt in the 600s and 700s. And what it is interesting is that much of what is called Islamic in Arabia was created by Jews as well. Especially the founding of the cities.

  7. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    Hmmm….what’s chances of getting Yathrib (Medina) in Saudi Arabia declared an “ancient Jewish Heritage site?”

  8. somehistory says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    As June Cleaver told the Beaver, “God sees everything.” He knows. And because there is written history from thousands of years ago, we can know.
    Hebron and the Tomb belong to Israel. If the people buried there were alive today, the moslums wold be attempting to murder them, screaming hatred, just as they do to the Jews who are currently fighting to stay alive.

    moslums lie. And so do those who enable the liars by lying on their behalf. It doesn’t really matter why they lie, not in the larger scheme of things. They are helping the murderous moslums to feel even more important and special…if that is possible.

    In the end, it won’t have made that much difference. The liars have a *special* place. They have earned a space there. They will be thrown into the lake of fire. There is no escape.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 12:40 am

    UN declares ancient Jewish holy site is “Palestinian”
    ……………………

    Disgusting–but at this point hardly surprising.

  10. tgusa says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 3:34 am

    We are living in the age of fake and it goes much deeper than just the media. There is so much fake going around it is almost impossible to sift through it and find the authentic. United Nations, even their name is fake. Fortunately we don’t have to buy in to fake.

  11. Baucent says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 4:04 am

    ” despite hundreds of years of Jewish tradition associated with the areas that predates both the modern Palestinian territories and the Islamic faith.”

    In the interest of historical accuracy it’s actually “thousands of years” not hundreds. Jewish possession of the land goes back before 1500 BC, probably 2000 BC to the time of Abraham.

    The UN is so warped in it’s anti-Israel propaganda that it’s resolutions and pronouncements are laughable, and lack any credibility. The countries pointing the finger are always the same motley crew of Islamic states and other repressive regimes.

  12. TassieR says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 5:58 am

    But what do you want from the UNESCO headed by Comrade Irina Bokova, a hard-core Bulgarian commie and a finished product of the KGB-controlled MGIMO institute in Moscow? In good old Soviet days the outstanding alumni like her were getting medals “Hero of Socialist Labor”. Now, in the new stage of the Progressive movement, the same honor ought to be updated to “Hero of Socialist Jihad” – and Comrade Bokova does surely deserve it!

  13. Expat88 says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 6:26 am

    The only Jewish matriarch missing is Rachel who is believed to be buried at Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem. Joseph (one of twelve sons of Jacob) is also buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs.

    Yemenis trace their ancestry back to Joctan, who was a direct descendant of Shem (son of Noah). Adnani Arabs (Adnan, son of Ishmael) are from Abraham.

  14. Tony46 says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 8:05 am

    Pales……what??

  15. Tony46 says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 8:38 am

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics_national_flag_bearers

    How come in this 1972 Wikipedia flag list, Palestine is not listed as a country?
    By the way, no encyclopedia before 1976 shows a country named Palestine.
    If it does, is shown together with the Israel flag.

    • Donald R Laster Jr says

      Jul 9, 2017 at 1:41 pm

      That is because there never has been a people called “Palestinians”. It is a made up term of the people who were Islamics, primarily, who fled the invading armies of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and other Islamics controlled areas who tried to destroy Israel when the Jews finally took back their land they were given back after WWI. That is some of the inconvenient history the Islamics don’t like to admit. And the countries around Israel refused to let their citizens return in most cases so they could create problems for the Jews. The area was renamed Palestine by a Roman emperor to insults the Jews who tried to expel the Roman Empire.

  16. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    United Nations Criminal Organization. BDS it: Boycott, Disband and Sack the UN!

  17. Tom W Harris says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    Drone the UN!

  18. Joel Shapiro says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    Maybe it is time to get Medina back — free occupied Medina. If Muhammad slaughtered the Jews of Medina, it must have been a Jewish town before Muhammad arrived.

    • Donald R Laster Jr says

      Jul 10, 2017 at 5:24 am

      From the history I have read Mohammad slaughtered the last community of Jews in Arabia around 632. Apparently, most of the cities and town in Arabia were created or thrived because of trading, Much of it due to Jews. And Christianity and Judaism were replacing the worship of the Arab pantheon of gods and Mohammad being a devout follower of Hubal apparently did not like it. So he first tried to get people to worship his god by pretending his god Hubal was Jehovah. And when that failed he started the killing spree which continues to this day.

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