News Bulletin: the United Nations vote for the Jews to keep their Wailing Wall

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News Bulletin: the United Nations vote for the Jews to keep their Wailing Wall (from Breaking Christian News)

“For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.” (Deuteronomy 20:4)

Amid international outcry, Israel has claimed a rare victory at the United Nations on Wednesday after the Palestinian delegation dropped its bid that the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declare the Western Wall a Muslim holy site.

The resolution, which was submitted on behalf of the Palestinian Authority by six Arab states, demanded that the Western Wall be recognized as an “integral part” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount.

While the bid to take over the Western Wall was dropped, the Palestinians are still requesting that Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron be declared Muslim sites. The Western Wall is considered part of Judaism’s most holy site, the Temple Mount.

Israel has vowed to fight the resolution, which also calls on the UN to condemn Israel for advising “its citizens to bear arms in light of recent terror wave” as well as security actions by the IDF and Israel Police in “the occupied capital of Palestine.”

Palestinian officials have stated that the current wave of terror attacks against Israel are in defense of Al-Aqsa and Israel’s supposed attempts to change the status quo on the Temple Mount.

Palestinian diplomats are calling on the UN to denounce Israel for “aggression and illegal measures taken against the freedom of worship and access of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israel’s attempts to break the status quo since 1967.”

On Tuesday, Irina Bokova, the head of the United Nations cultural agency, said she “deplored” the Palestinian proposal, which she warned “could be seen to alter the status of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls and incite further tensions.”

Bokova called on UNESCO “to take decisions that do not further inflame tensions on the ground and that encourage respect for the sanctity of the Holy Sites.”

In Israel, while meeting with UN Secretary Ban ki-Moon, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said efforts to increase tension in Israel must be rejected.

“The United Nations and all its institutions have a responsibility to work against any escalation of the conflict,” the president stated. “UNESCO must reject any attempt to deny the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.”

News Bulletin: the United Nations vote for the Jews to keep their Wailing Wall

News Bulletin: the United Nations vote for the Jews to keep their Wailing Wall

News Bulletin: United Nations may vote to give Israel"s Wailing Wall to the Muslims

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News Bulletin: United Nations may vote to give Israel’s Wailing Wall to the Muslims

The Palestinian Authority is claiming the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem as their own. UNESCO is sponsoring that claim at the United Nations. If a vote of this kind takes place and the majority of nations approve it, the Jewish people would lose one of its two most sacred places.

 

JERUSALEM, Israel — The Palestinian Authority’s latest proposed U.N. resolution, sponsored by UNESCO, claims the Western Wall, known in Hebrew as the Kotel, is part of the al-Aksa Mosque and thereby a Muslim holy site, rather than the last remaining vestige of the Jewish Temple(s).

Sponsored by six member nations of UNESCO’s executive board – Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates – the resolution also claims P.A. ownership of Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

The majority of UNESCO’s 58 member nations have historically supported Palestinian resolutions.

For Bible-believing Jews and Christians, the idea that these historical Jewish sites somehow morphed into Muslim sites is nonsense.

The Bible records that Abraham purchased the cave and the field next to it some 3,700 years ago as a family burial site (see Genesis 23-25), with the exception of Jacob’s second wife, Rachel, the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who was buried near Bethlehem (see Genesis 35:16-20).

Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemned the petition.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely called it another “shameful and deceitful attempt” to rewrite history, predicting it would “fail the test of reality.”

“The Temple Mount and the Western Wall in Jerusalem are the cornerstones of Jewish history. They are historical facts no one can dispute,” Hotovely said, adding that Abbas is continuing the legacy of former PLO chairman Yasser Arafat to distort history and work against Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel.

Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon paid a surprise visit to Israel Tuesday to meet with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon also arrived in Israel Tuesday to sit in on Ban’s meeting with Netanyahu. Danon will return to New York to attend Thursday morning’s Security Council meeting.

Ban condemned “the dangerous escalation in violence” in Israel, Jerusalem and what he calls “the occupied Palestinian territories.”

The U.N. chief said he understands Palestinian anger over the “continued occupation and expansion of settlements,” and their disappointment at the inability to end the conflict.

Ban criticized Israel’s “apparent excessive use of force,” while admitting that security is a priority when children are afraid to go to school and anyone on the street is a potential victim (of an attack).

Meanwhile, B’nai B’rith International strongly condemned “the attempt to rewrite history” in a letter to UNESCO Director General Irena Bokova, calling it a “malicious resolution” and urging her to steer the executive board clear of such a “vile proposal.”

Co-signed by B’nai Brith International President Allan J. Jacobs and Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin, the letter maligns the “blatant hypocrisy that has been percolating with UNESCO.”

“The creeping but undisguised historical revisionism and territorial, cultural and civilizational appropriation taking root at UNESCO…make clear which side in the conflict is truly inciting religious tensions and seeking to alter the status quo in Jerusalem,” the letter stated.

News Bulletin: United Nations may vote to give Israel’s Wailing Wall to the Muslims

News Bulletin: United Nations may vote to give Israel"s Wailing Wall to the Muslims