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| With softened language UNESCO again condemns Israel’s presence in Jerusalem’s Old City | |
| 2017-07-05 | |
| [IsraelTimes] UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee passes a vote condemning Israeli policies in Jerusalem’s Old City. Ten member states vote yes, three no, and three countries abstain. The Jordanian-sponsored resolution on the "Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls" is much softer than last year’s text, but Israel has rejected any attempt to politicize the issue of the holy sites in its capital in international bodies. This year’s resolution still calls Israel "the occupying power" in the Old City and reaffirms previous UN resolutions denying the country’s claims to East Jerusalem, echoing a resolution passed in May by UNESCO’s executive board. It also "regrets the failure of the Israeli occupying authorities to cease the persistent excavations, tunneling, works, projects and other illegal practices in East Jerusalem, particularly in and around the Old City of Jerusalem, which are illegal under international law." However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Decision 41 COM 7A.36, as it is technically known, stresses "the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions," language not found in last year’s text. It also does not refer to the Temple Mount compound solely by its Moslem names, "Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram al-Sharif," as the 2016 resolution did, calling it simply "a Moslem holy site of worship."
According to Shama-Hacohen, despite the significant softening of the text, more nations are identifying with Israel who are no longer prepared to accept what Israel has often considered unquestionable hounding of the Jewish state, even if the resolutions have been diluted. He also pointed out that for the first time, Israel gained what he described as a moral majority in the body’s cultural committee since eleven countries out of 21 either opposed the proposal or abstained. The vote came just days after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... sent a letter to the Director-General of UNESCO urging her to oppose a resolution to be voted on by the body next week which would recognize Hebron's Old City--and with it the Cave of the Patriarchs--as a Paleostinian World Heritage Site In Danger. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 ....And the horse you rode in on. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-07-05 07:33 |
| #1 These stupid savages sure stick together. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-05 02:36 |