PM slams UNESCO's classifying Rachel's Tomb as a mosque

jpost ^ | 10/29/10 | Staff

[Nachum]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday slammed world culture organization UNESCO's decision to characterize the site of Rachel's Tomb as a Muslim mosque. "The attempt to separate the nation of Israel from its cultural heritage is absurd," said the prime minister. A statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office read, "It is unfortunate that an organization that was established with the goal of promoting the cultural preservation of historical sites around the world, is attempting due to political reasons to uproot the connection between the nation of Israel and its cultural heritage."

[Nachum]

Mamsers..

[mojito]

UNESCO's requests comes after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in March, according to Saudi paper Al Wattan, claimed that the al-Aksa Mosque, the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb “were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.”

Turkey out of NATO now.

[max americana]

Is this the same Rachel who turned into a pancake by the Israel bulldozer?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

President Ronald Reagan did kick UNESCO out of the USA.

GW Bush invited UNESCO back in 2002.

[Lurker]

Is this the same Rachel who turned into a pancake by the Israel bulldozer?

Ummmmm.....no.

[El Cid]

That's not a serious question is it?
(we're talking about Joseph and Benjamin's mother. One of Jacob/Israel's wives)

[darkwing104]

Is this the same Rachel who turned into a pancake by the Israel bulldozer?

You steped into it now...Take a gander at the old testiment and read about Jacob, this Rechel was his wife.

[353FMG]

“....UNESCO’s decision to characterize the site of Rachel’s Tomb as a Muslim mosque.”

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I am waiting for the day that the site of the WTC be declared a muslim tomb by this useless organization.

[Drill Thrawl]

Is this the same Rachel who turned into a pancake by the Israel bulldozer?

It is a sign of how ridiculous the world is and how insane muzzies are that people would read the title as Rachel Corrie - The Palestinian Pancake. I must confess that it crossed my mind as well.

[a fool in paradise]

Reminds me of The Forbidden Zone in Planet of the Apes.

[jjotto]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140345

...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 demands control over both the tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron, as well as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

UNESCO appeared to support the PA demand for the Temple Mount as well, asking that Muslim officials be allowed to examine the Mughrabi Gate near the Western Wall (Kotel). Muslim leaders have accused Israel of attempting to damage the Al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount under the guise of repairs to the Mugrabi Gate. Israeli officials have warned that if the gate is not repaired, it could collapse, putting worshipers at the Western Wall at risk...

[FourPeas]

As if the world needed more proof that the United Nations is inherently anti-Israel.

[kabumpo]

The favorite of only two. The other wife was Rachel’s older sister, Leah.

[SJackson]

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