Posted on 10/21/2015 8:46:07 AM PDT by Lera
Rachel's Tomb, Cave of the Patriarchs now listed as Muslim sites, Israel condemned over Temple Mount 'aggression.'
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) passed a resolution Wednesday listing the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem as Muslim sites.
The resolution - which passed with 26 in favor, six voted against, and 25 abstentions - condemned Israel for archaeological excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem and particularly near the Temple Mount.
An initial draft of the resolution had also called for the Kotel (Western Wall) to be listed as an Islamic site - or more specifically as an "extension of the Al Aqsa Mosque" - but that detail was hastily withdrawn after widespread condemnation, including from UNESCO's own Director-General.
The revised draft also toned-down some of the more blatant anti-Israel language in the original, including referring to Jerusalem as the "occupied capital of Palestine."
Nevertheless, the resolution accepted Wednesday does co-opt two other ancient Jewish holy sites: the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb, which contain the remains of the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs and are regular sites of pilgrimage for Jewish worshipers.
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(Genesis 35:10) And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
(Genesis 35:11) And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
(Genesis 35:12) And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
(Genesis 35:13) And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
(Genesis 35:14) And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
(Genesis 35:15) And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
(Genesis 35:16) And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
(Genesis 35:17) And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
(Genesis 35:18) And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
(Genesis 35:19) And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
(Genesis 35:20) And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Perhaps UNESCO could outlaw gravity and make travel easier?
I suppose next that they will pass a resolution declaring that Ishmael was entitled to the birthright and Jacob cheated him.
brilliant!! I've always wondered who would correct that blatant injustice!!
Well, technically....
They passed their resolution. Now let’s see them enforce it.
BIBI needs to deploy soldiers to those areas with orders to shoot to kill any Arab who dares interfere with these areas and also BIBI needs to come out and say that nation of Israel does not recognize this act of the U.N.
Which 5 countries voted no?
So now the UN is the supreme court a over all religions too?
Must be nice to vote yourself king and priest.
the United Nazis manages to smear itself even worse
the image of a bunch of pigs swimming in a cesspool of their own filth
comes to mind
everytime the UN is mentioned
This whole thing is revolting.
We know the above will be revisited soon. They just didn't want to bog the whole thing down with this issue now.
Gee, I thought all this history happened several thousand years before Islamism made its ugly eruption
... (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) passed a resolution Wednesday listing the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem as Muslim sites. The resolution -- which passed with 26 in favor, six voted against, and 25 abstentions -- condemned Israel for archaeological excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem and particularly near the Temple Mount.
Yep and the other cave is the cave Abraham purchased to bury Sarah in Hebron . Sarah ,Abraham , Issac , Jacob and Leah are buried there . Ishmael and Essau (the ancestors to the so called palestinians are NOT buried there .
(Genesis 23:16) And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
(Genesis 23:17) And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
(Genesis 23:18) Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
(Genesis 23:19) And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
(Genesis 23:20) And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
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