U.S. quits UNESCO over 'anti-Israel bias'
Move comes after international agency went 'delusional' with snub of Middle East democracy
Published: 6 hours ago
Bob Unruh

The United States is dropping out of the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization only months after the international organization went “delusional” by declaring the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron a “Palestinian heritage site.”

Heather Nauert, a State Department spokeswoman, announced the move will be made before the end of the year, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday.
“This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO,” Nauert said.

President Trump’s administration has been highly critical of the United Nations in general and in particular of its anti-Israel bias.

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Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, was responding to UNESCO’s vote to declare the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron a “Palestinian heritage site.”

It was just the latest in a series of actions by the U.N. against Israel, including its move to call the Temple Mount “Islamic.”

“This recent UNESCO resolution is another delusional U.N. decision which disregards the historical truth and the Jewish people’s deep connection to Hebron,” said Staver.

Staver also is president of Christians in Defense of Israel and founder of Covenant Journey, all in support of Israel.

“To refer to Hebron as ‘Islamic’ denies thousands of years of Jewish history as well as Christian ties to the site. The biblical patriarchs Abraham and Isaac, as well as the matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca and Leah are believed to be buried there, and to deny that is another move toward the Palestinian Authority and Hamas renaming the entire land to Palestine and denying Israel’s right to exist,” said Staver.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee adopted a resolution declaring, by a 12-3 vote with six abstentions, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron a Palestinian heritage site.

The committee already had declared the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem and another location in the “state of Palestine” as similar Islamic heritage sites.

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“Netanyahu pulled no punches in reminding the body of its anti-Israel and, more bluntly, anti-Semitic bias,” Farah wrote. “He condemned UNESCO’s July declaration of the Tomb of the Patriarchs as a ‘Palestinian World Heritage site,’ saying sarcastically, ‘That’s worse than fake news, that’s fake history.'”

Netanyahu continued: “It’s true that Abraham, the father of both Ishmael and Isaac, is buried there, but so too are Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca – Sarah is a Jewish name, by the way – and Leah, who just happen to be patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people. You won’t read about that in the latest UNESCO report. But if you want to, you can read about that in a somewhat weightier publication. It’s called the Bible. I highly recommend it. I hear it even got 4 ½ out of 5 stars on Amazon. And it’s a great read. I read it every week.”

When UNESCO made the announcement over the summer, Netanyahu cut an additional $1 million from Israel’s U.N. membership dues. Israel will give those funds to the Museum of the Heritage of the Jewish People in Kiryat Arba and Hebron.

Late last year, UNESCO rewrote millennia of history when it designated the Temple Mount, the likely site of the original Jewish temples during biblical times, with Muslim names only.

That resolution, brought by seven Muslim nations, emphasized Islam’s claims to the site but ignored the historical facts about Jewish presence there over 3,000 years.

UNESCO said at that time it “firmly deplores the continuous storming of Al-Aqṣa Mosque/Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif by Israeli right-wing extremists and uniformed forces, and urges Israel, the occupying Power, to take necessary measures to prevent provocative abuses that violate the sanctity and integrity of Al-Aqṣa Mosque/Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif.”

East Jerusalem has been part of Israel since the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians want the city as part of a future state.


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Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

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Long, long overdue and not just because of Israel. I only wish we would quit the entire organization and send it packing.

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