By Kami Klein

The United Nations cultural and heritage body, UNESCO, has voted on a resolution sponsored by several Arab countries that marginalizes Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, the place where Abraham offered Isaac and the location of the Holy of Holies in the Jewish temple and to the Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical temple compound.  UNESCO  condemned it’s belief in Israel’s escalating aggression regarding the holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City.

The resolution was backed by 24 countries, with six opposing it and 26 abstaining. The US, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Estonia voted against the resolution; Russia and China were among those backing it.

In a Facebook post Prime Minister Netanyahu reacted with anger:

The theater of the absurd continues at UNESCO. Today UNESCO adopted a bizarre decision that denies the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

They haven’t read the Bible. I suggest that UNESCO members visit the Arch of Titus in Rome where it is possible to see what the Romans brought to Rome after they destroyed and looted the Temple Mount 2,000 years ago.

One can see engraved on the Arch of Titus the seven-branched menorah that is the symbol of the Jewish people and the symbol of the Jewish state today.

Soon UNESCO will say that the Emperor Titus was dealing with Zionist propaganda.

To say that Israel has no connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall is like saying that China has no connection to the Great Wall of China, and Egypt has no connection to the pyramids. With this absurd decision UNESCO erases the little legitimacy left to it.

I believe that the historical truth is more powerful, and will prevail. And today we are dealing in truth.

Please read this article by The Guardian  for more information on this historic vote, which will affect the Jewish people as well as Christians all over the world.