On Independence Day, UNESCO okays resolution denying Israeli claims to Jerusalem

[OriZ 3,165]

The United Nation’s cultural body on Tuesday passed the latest in a series of resolutions that denies Israeli claims to Jerusalem, in a move both forcefully condemned by Israel and touted as a diplomatic feat due to the growing number of countries that opposed it.

 

Submitted to UNESCO’s Executive Board by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, the resolution on “Occupied Palestine,” which indicates that Israel has no legal or historical rights anywhere in Jerusalem, had been expected to pass, given the automatic anti-Israel majority in the 58-member body.

 

The vote, which coincided with Israel’s Independence Day, passed with 22 countries in favor, 23 abstentions, 10 opposed, and the representatives of three countries absent.

The resolution indicates rejection of the Jewish state’s sovereignty in any part of Jerusalem. Israel is referred to throughout the document as the “occupying power” in Jerusalem, indicating that it has no legal or historical ties to any part of the city. The resolution also harshly criticizes the government for various construction projects in Jerusalem’s Old City and at holy sites in Hebron, and calls for an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza without mentioning attacks from the Hamas-run Strip.

 

The 10 countries that voted against the resolution were the US, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Greece, Paraguay, Ukraine, Togo, and Germany.

Its wording was slightly less harsh on Jerusalem than previous resolutions, in that it does affirm the importance of the city to the “three monotheistic religions.”

In the moments after the vote passed, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, draped in a large Israeli flag, addressed the meeting.

“Even now, after this miserable vote, this blue and white flag is flying high above the Temple Mount and throughout Israel’s eternal capital city, Jerusalem, waving in the wind, saying to all ‘here we are, and we are here to stay,'” Shama-Hacohen said.

 

“This biased and blatantly deceitful decision, and the attempts to dispute the connection between Israel and Jerusalem, will not change the simple fact that this city is the historic and eternal capital of the Jewish people,” Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said in a statement. “Israel will not stand silently by in the face of this shameful resolution.”

 

In the lead up to Tuesday’s vote, Israeli diplomats had been busy trying to prevent an European-Arab agreement that would see the council’s European members either vote in favor or abstain in exchange for a slightly softer text.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was said to have made phone calls to European leaders in a bid to convince them to reject the resolution.

Earlier on Tuesday Netanyahu harshly criticized the UNESCO resolution for ignoring the Jewish people’s millennia-long bond to Israel’s capital city.

Speaking at the Bible Quiz held annually on Independence Day, Netanyahu said that despite the text of the resolution, Judaism has deeper roots in Jerusalem that any other religion.

“There is no other people in the world for whom Jerusalem is as holy and important as for the Jewish people, even though a meeting will take place at UNESCO today that will try to deny this historical truth,” he said.

“We denounce UNESCO and uphold our truth, which is the truth,” that “throughout Jewish history Jerusalem was the heart of the nation.”

 

Tuesday’s resolution, unlike previous resolutions, does not refer to the Temple Mount only as Haram al-Sharif, or to the Western Wall Plaza only as al-Burak plaza, the respective sites’ Muslim names. In fact, these sites are not mentioned at all.

Resolution 201 EX/PX/DR.30.1 affirms “the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions.” It also notes that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem, both of which are in the West Bank, “are of religious significance for Judaism, Christianity and Islam” — though it calls them “Palestinian sites.”

 

Earlier this week, Israel officials acknowledged that the resolution that passed Tuesday is somewhat easier to stomach than previous versions, but emphatically urged Western countries to vote against it.

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/on-independence-day-unesco-okays-resolution-ignoring-jewish-links-to-jerusalem/

 

And Sweden was the only European country that supported LOL. No wonder that country is dead 

[IAMX 3,055]

 Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan

Well I'll be damned, color me surprised.

[CaliCat 3,957]

How can the US vote against it. The so-called president said he would transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem, or did he?

 

Now you see, now you don't.

 

Can you feel the winning?

[OriZ 3,165]

32 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

How can the US vote against it. The so-called president said he would transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem, or did he?

 

Now you see, now you don't.

 

Can you feel the winning?

I think trying to pin everything under the sun on Trump is clouding your vision and judgement...the US voting against it is not a bad thing(well I mean depends on who ya ask I suppose) and has nothing to do with transferring the embassy, voting against this pathetic resolution is a show of support in Israel, not the other way around.

[CaliCat 3,957]

35 minutes ago, OriZ said:

I think trying to pin everything under the sun on Trump is clouding your vision and judgement...the US voting against it is not a bad thing(well I mean depends on who ya ask I suppose) and has nothing to do with transferring the embassy, voting against this pathetic resolution is a show of support in Israel, not the other way around.

 

So do you deny he said he'd move the embassy to Jerusalem?

 

I think trying to make an excuse for all of his lying and flip-flopping is taking a toll on you.

 

http://forward.com/fast-forward/363347/trump-flip-flops-on-moving-embassy-to-jerusalem-says-well-see/

 

Moving the American embassy to Jerusalem was once a cornerstone of President Trump’s new cozy policy to Israel — a powerful statement about the Donald’s commitment to the “eternal capital of the Jewish state.”

It was so crucial that the incoming president considered decreeing the move at a minute after midnight on inauguration day.

Now it’s one option to be considered at some unspecified time in the future, if and when it makes sense to U.S. policymakers. In other words: Don’t hold your breath.

“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said when questioned about his commitment to the move during a joint press conference with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

So much for a clean break that the Orange One promised from previous administrations, Republican and Democratic, that saw the move as untenable.

Read more: http://forward.com/fast-forward/363347/trump-flip-flops-on-moving-embassy-to-jerusalem-says-well-see/

Edited May 3, 2017 by CaliCat

[Boiler 47,714]

UN has been a joke for a long time, about time the US stopped over funding it.

[IAMX 3,055]

24 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

So do you deny he said he'd move the embassy to Jerusalem?

 

I think trying to make an excuse for all of his lying and flip-flopping is taking a toll on you.

 

http://forward.com/fast-forward/363347/trump-flip-flops-on-moving-embassy-to-jerusalem-says-well-see/

 

Moving the American embassy to Jerusalem was once a cornerstone of President Trump’s new cozy policy to Israel — a powerful statement about the Donald’s commitment to the “eternal capital of the Jewish state.”

It was so crucial that the incoming president considered decreeing the move at a minute after midnight on inauguration day.

Now it’s one option to be considered at some unspecified time in the future, if and when it makes sense to U.S. policymakers. In other words: Don’t hold your breath.

“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said when questioned about his commitment to the move during a joint press conference with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

So much for a clean break that the Orange One promised from previous administrations, Republican and Democratic, that saw the move as untenable.

Read more: http://forward.com/fast-forward/363347/trump-flip-flops-on-moving-embassy-to-jerusalem-says-well-see/

The list of petty things the left have whined about regarding Trump is itself a novel of entertainment. 

[OriZ 3,165]

5 hours ago, CaliCat said:

 

 

I think trying to make an excuse for all of his lying and flip-flopping is taking a toll on you.

 

I think you have me confused with other people. I don't make excuses for anything, I call it like I see it(see CNN thread). I literally have no agenda in favor or against anybody. Regarding the embassy of course I know what he said - still has nothing to do with this or your initial comment. Admitting that in your heist to blame Trump you misread what this was about would have made everything easier for both of us.

[OriZ 3,165]

5 hours ago, Boiler said:

UN has been a joke for a long time, about time the US stopped over funding it.

It is indeed a sad joke and unfortunately the joke's on all of us.

[Dashinka 26,020]

4 minutes ago, OriZ said:

Admitting that in your heist to blame Trump you misread what this was about would have made everything easier for both of us.

A common issue with those still in denial.

[IAMX 3,055]

2 hours ago, OriZ said:

I think you have me confused with other people. I don't make excuses for anything, I call it like I see it(see CNN thread). I literally have no agenda in favor or against anybody. Regarding the embassy of course I know what he said - still has nothing to do with this or your initial comment. Admitting that in your heist to blame Trump you misread what this was about would have made everything easier for both of us.

https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/03/06/the-4d-nutwork-of-liberal-debate-deride-distract-deny-demonize/

Distract – When a liberal realizes they are losing the argument they always change the subject.  They will switch to something about which they believe you are wrong and move away from the subject that you have proven their assertions are in error.  They do this deliberately in order to make you the one who is wrong and, once they prove you are wrong on the other subject you are assumed to be wrong on the original subject.

 

The solution to this is to keep yanking the conversation back to the subject and not allow them to deviate and take control with a new subject.  The new subject is irrelevant and the object of a different argument.  Stick to the issue at hand!

 

I applaud your efforts to steer things back on track.

[Boiler 47,714]

I watch mainly CNN and still do but it has become rather sad, I realise they sacked all their investigatory Journalists and has now become a parody. Shame.

[bcking 3,157]

Sorry Isreal has no "historical ties" to the city? 

 

That seems like a joke. You could argue about legal ties perhaps, but historical ties are pretty indisputable. The big three major religions all have "historical" ties to the city.