Posted on 10/13/16
| News Source: Yahoo News
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a resolution adopted by the U.N. cultural agency denies the Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem and is a "theatre of the absurd."
The UNESCO resolution, sponsored by several Arab countries, marginalizes Jewish ties to the Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical temple compound, and to the plaza that Jews revere as the Temple Mount and Muslims revere as the Noble Sanctuary.
Netanyahu asks on his Facebook page: "Is it any wonder the U.N. has become a moral farce when UNESCO, the U.N. body tasked with preserving history, denies and distorts history?"
The Palestinian foreign ministry welcomed the resolution, which was...read more at Yahoo News