Confused about UNESCO? What You Need To Know Top 16 Links
by Dr. Elana Yael Heideman
Much has been written regarding UN’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) resolution which effectively ignores the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism where it is believed that the First and Second Temples once stood. The site is also holy to Christianity and Islam. It is the third holiest site in Islam and Mohammed is said to have visited the city once in a dream.
A legislation that initially passed in a first-round vote in April and has since been ratified in a controversial vote has led to the identification of Israel as an ‘occupying power’ in Jerusalem rather than as its legal and legitimate heir, owner, and protector.
Here are the must-read links to help you understand why the vote matters and how YOU can take action.
1. Danger of UNESCO heritage committee’s Jerusalem resolution
26 Apr 2005, JERUSALEM, Israel — Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray during Passover prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City April 26, 2005. — Image by © OLEG POPOV/Reuters/Corbis
A UNESCO committee has voted on a resolution concerning Jerusalem that refers more than ten times to “Al-Haram Al-Sharif”—the Islamic term for Temple Mount—without ever mentioning that it is the holiest site in Judaism. The text was drafted by the Arab-Palestinian and Jordanian delegations, and officially submitted by Kuwait, Lebanon and Tunisia, the Arab states on the 21-nation panel. Read More »
2. Why the UNESCO Vote On the Temple Mount Matters
The Western Wall in Jerusalem at the recent priestly blessing during the Jewish holiday of Succot. (Photo: Courtesy of the Israeli Air Unit)
By demanding that UNESCO use only Muslim terminology for the holiest site in the world, erasing the pre-Muslim history of the site, the Arab-Palestinian leadership have shown that they regard the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian conflict as one of Muslim domination over Jews and Christians. Read More »
3. Hijacking UNESCO to Rewrite Jerusalem's History
4. UNESCO’s absurd decision reflects the world’s honest opinion
UNESCO headquarters. (photo credit:REUTERS)
Israel was not established to be a safe haven for Jews, but to foster a society that presents a desirable and sustainable alternative to a ruptured and hate-filled world. The theater of the absurd at UNESCO goes on,” said Benjamin Netanyahu about the organization’s decision to deny the historic connection between Judaism and the Temple Mount. Read More »
5. The Bible - Revised (by UNESCO)
6. Full text of new UNESCO resolution on ‘Occupied Palestine’
Official text of UN cultural agency’s resolution slamming Israel, referring to Jerusalem holy sites by Muslim names only. Read More »
7. UNESCO, Israel, Cain and Abel
Titian – Cain and Abel. Photo: Wikipedia.
The United Nations needs to stop telling countries to see themselves as comparable parties in a large international partnership. This has only led to every failed and rogue state finding fault in every other country of the world, rather than focusing on their own faults and improving themselves without reference to others. Read More »
8. UNESCO's disgrace actually strengthens us
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is not the problem, but the solution. Against its will, the institution grudgingly serves as a tool that will ultimately reinforce what it is attempting to deny: the eternal connection between the Jewish people and the core of its religious and national identity. Read More »
9. Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, on today's UNESCO resolution
“Today's resolution is part of a big lie, portraying Israel as the violator of religious freedom in the Middle East. The truth is the opposite: Israel is the only country in the region that protects freedom of religion, which is being trampled by all of its Arab and Islamist neighbors.”“Democracies like France and other EU states need to get off the abstention fence and say #No to the hijacking of the UN for the purpose of denying the historic, religious and cultural rights of the Jewish people in Jerusalem."
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, on today's UNESCO resolution:
10. Danny Ayalon explains how UNESCO passed the outrageous resolution denying the Jewish connection to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
11. UNESCO resolution is a 'disgrace to intelligent people,' says Temple Mount archaeologist
Temple Mount Sifting Project
Archaeological sites in Syria are blown up and demolished, and sites in Iraq are being bulldozed away, and what UNESCO is busy with is declarations about Jerusalem and its connection to Jewish heritage.
Instead of praising Israel for its archaeological work, which illuminates the past of the Temple Mount and other places, what we have is the opposite. It’s deplorable. Israel has but one voice, while the Arabs and their supporters have so many more, so they can come to the decision that the earth is flat, and they will have a majority.” Read More »
Instead of praising Israel for its archaeological work, which illuminates the past of the Temple Mount and other places, what we have is the opposite. It’s deplorable. Israel has but one voice, while the Arabs and their supporters have so many more, so they can come to the decision that the earth is flat, and they will have a majority.” Read More »
12. Sacrificing the Temple Mount
In some ways this absurd farce does not and should not matter in the least, but in other ways it is a microcosm of much that is wrong with matters that pertain to Israel.
Whether UNESCO wants to acknowledge it or not, the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is immediately evident after five minutes of studying archaeology, three minutes of studying ancient history, and half a second of studying Jewish liturgy. The larger problem here is not what this resolution says about history, but what it says about the future. The Arab-Palestinian push to make this resolution happen rightly feeds into fears of what will happen to Jews and Jewish holy places in a potential future Arab-Palestinian state (which will not happen. The Arabs have Jordan), and whether the same basic access and protections that Israel affords to non-Jewish religious sites will be reciprocated in any way. Read More »
Whether UNESCO wants to acknowledge it or not, the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is immediately evident after five minutes of studying archaeology, three minutes of studying ancient history, and half a second of studying Jewish liturgy. The larger problem here is not what this resolution says about history, but what it says about the future. The Arab-Palestinian push to make this resolution happen rightly feeds into fears of what will happen to Jews and Jewish holy places in a potential future Arab-Palestinian state (which will not happen. The Arabs have Jordan), and whether the same basic access and protections that Israel affords to non-Jewish religious sites will be reciprocated in any way. Read More »
13. UN Rewrites Jewish History, and Jews Look on the Bright Side
UNESCO's vote ironically succeeded in bridging institutions and individuals who are often deeply divided on Israel. Indeed, some Israelis allowed themselves the hope that the Arab-Palestinians, who fueled the resolution, might finally have overstepped in their attempt to gain advantage over Israelis through the UN. Read More »
14. UN Bias against Israel
15. Why we should applaud the UNESCO Decision by Israel Shield
This conflict was never about settlements or the occupation of a country that never existed and it was never about an Arab national dream to build a country called Arab-Palestine ... this conflict has always been about an Arab national intent to destroy the nation of Israel. Read More »
16. Israel’s Future Lies in the Past
The goal of the Arab-Palestinians was and still is to destroy Israel and the way they want to do this is by erasing the over 3000 year continuous history of the Jews in Israel and replacing it with a fabricated deceptive Arab-Palestinian history based on fairy dust and moon beams. Read More »
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Almighty
G-d, Lord of Israel
The Temple Temple
Consider some of the less commonly discussed forms of sinat chinam (baseless hate). The divisive Israeli dichotomy of religious vs. secular is a kind of put-down, implying that anyone who doesn't observe as I do is totally separated from the Jewish faith and way of life -- not true in most cases.
Even the term "observant" can sometimes be construed as a put-down, implying that those who don't observe as I do are not observant.
Who is observant?
Jews
Who are Jews?
People who follow the Jewish way of life.
What is the Jewish way of life?
Being respectful of and loving toward all of Briyut (human beings).
When the balance tips because of a preponderance of people now following the Jewish way of life, then we will have ourTemple
May Hakadosh Baruch Hu (The Almighty) rebuild theTemple
Consider some of the less commonly discussed forms of sinat chinam (baseless hate). The divisive Israeli dichotomy of religious vs. secular is a kind of put-down, implying that anyone who doesn't observe as I do is totally separated from the Jewish faith and way of life -- not true in most cases.
Even the term "observant" can sometimes be construed as a put-down, implying that those who don't observe as I do are not observant.
Who is observant?
Jews
Who are Jews?
People who follow the Jewish way of life.
What is the Jewish way of life?
Being respectful of and loving toward all of Briyut (human beings).
When the balance tips because of a preponderance of people now following the Jewish way of life, then we will have our
May Hakadosh Baruch Hu (The Almighty) rebuild the
Unity
above all
We must learn to respect each other no matter what the
religious affiliation or secular. We are all Jews, one people and one nation.
We must look ahead and learn from past mistakes and not dwell
on them and look for blame. We must be unified and with a cohesive effort, we
will find a solution.
The one thing that
is common to all of solutions is that they required — or at least
relied on — the other party’s good will. But in the absence of such a
will, every agreement you attempt to implement is doomed before it has even
started. Therefore, we must look not at the agreements we can or can’t achieve
with our neighbors, but rather look at the agreements that we can achieve with
ourselves!
Our motto should
be something like, “When the going gets tough, the good get going,” because
this is all we need to do — lend a friendly hand to one another, no
questions asked. As we have been told a million times before, this unity will
unleash all the powers we need in order to resolve our problems: social,
economic, and political — both internally and internationally.
“A Unified Israel
is A Strong Israel”
YJ Draiman
According to Jewish Law. Any Jewish land sold
in Israel
Vayikra (Leviticus) 25:8-22 “‘Count off seven Sabbaths of years--seven times seven years--so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the
tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. Consecrate the
fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.
It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his
own clan. The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not
reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. For it is a jubilee and
is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields. “‘In this Year
of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property. “‘If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from him, do not take
advantage of each other. You are to buy from your countryman on the basis of
the number of years since the Jubilee. And he is to sell to you on the
basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. When the years are
many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to
decrease the price, because what he is really selling you is the number of crops. Do not take advantage of each other, but fear
your God. I am HaShem your God. “‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. Then the land will
yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. You may ask, “What will
we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our
crops?” I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
The British asked and accepted the Mandate to rebuild the
Jewish National Home in Palestine Historical Land Israel Middle
East .
In Israel
It is a matter of survival.
Abbas the financier
of the Munich Massacre and the Achille Lauro murder.
Complain on Israel
The minute the U.N.
its representatives or anyone else call Judea and Samaria West Bank occupied territory, than there is nobody to
talk to. Jordan
The Jewish people
must fight for their rights and heritage, no concessions. Past concessions, appeasements
and compromise have proved counterproductive and only increased terror and
violence. Stop deluding your-selves the Arabs do not want peace; they want all
of Israel without the Jews (Just like today, they expelled the Jews from Jordan
and prohibit Jews from living in Jordan and in the Arab PA in Judea and Samaria
aka West Bank). When the Arabs teach and train their children to hate, commit
terror and violence, and their charter calls for the destruction of Israel
The Arabs attacked Israel Palestine Land of Israel Jordan River including ancient Jerusalem Israel
It is enough, that
the Arabs have Jordan, which is Jewish territory, and the homes and over 120,000
sq. km. of land (owned by the Jews for over 2,500 years), the Arabs confiscated
from the terrorized and expelled million Jewish families with their children
(valued in the trillions of dollars), who lived in the Arab countries for over
2,600 years and now most of them were resettled in Israel, and today they comprise
over half the population. The Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of
territory after WWI with a wealth of oil reserves, and 70% of that territory is
vacant.
YJ Draiman
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