30 October '10
News Item:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted recently to officially declare Rachel’s Tomb to be a mosque. UNESCO director Irena Bokova had previously stated “concern” at Israel’s decision to treat the tomb as a heritage site.
The vote called for Rachel’s Tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs – the burial site of the other Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs – to be removed from Israel’s National Heritage list.
The Palestinian Authority has claimed that Rachel’s Tomb is holy to Muslims as the site of a mosque called the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque. The PA [Palestinian Authority] demands control over both the tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron, as well as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem….
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What the hell is wrong with the UN? The UN is only good at USA and Israel-bashing, nothing else.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Jews should give this non-nation a piece of their own medicine, and burn the 'mosque' down.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, they can build a mosque over everything, but that doesn't cancel what lies beneath.