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shira

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Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:14 AM Oct 2016

UNESCO adopts another resolution ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount [View all]

Proving one week later, the deliberate intent to deny Jewish rights to the Temple Mount. After all, if the UNESCO resolution was really about occupation & the denial of Palestinian rights, there'd be no point denying any Jewish rights or ties to the Temple Mount. This has now happened twice in the past couple weeks. It's clearly deliberate, not an innocent omission. Pure 100% antisemitism.


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BY RAPHAEL AHREN October 26, 2016, 11:48 am

An important panel at the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday morning approved a controversial resolution that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount. The decision came a week after a similar resolution was approved by the body and elicited angry responses from Israel, several world leaders and even the body’s own director-general....

http://www.timesofisrael.com/unesco-adopts-another-resolution-erasing-jewish-link-to-temple-mount/
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