Israel’s quitting UNESCO would make Ben-Gurion proud!

David Ben-Gurion’s 45th Yahrtzeit (the anniversary of his death) has usually passed. Modern Israel’s initial primary minister, not usually contributed to a initial of a state, though a improvement of a Hebrew denunciation and Israeli mentality. He coined dual good famous phrases, “It doesn’t matter what the goyim [nations] say, though what a Jews do,” and, for a UN, that is shortened as Um in Hebrew “Um-Shmum.”

Ben-Gurion wrote in 1970, about a Jews chronological tie to Hevron, home of a patriarchs and David’s initial collateral before Jerusalem, and afterwards forked out, “…we will make a good and awful mistake if we destroy to settle Hevron, neighbor and prototype of Jerusalem, with a vast Jewish settlement, constantly flourishing and expanding, really soon.”

Well, that resettling has occurred, and like Ben-Gurion, who said, “It doesn’t matter what a goyim say, though what a Jews do,” over 800,000 visitors annually go to Hevron-Kiryat Arba, and to the Ma’arah (Cave of a Patriarchs).

A few weeks ago, Hevron-Kiryat Arba celebrated it’s annual Shabbat Hevron. Jews came from all over, to bond to their forefathers and foremothers, their roots and a roots of a Davidic kingdom.

Over 40,000 Jews voting with their feet, went to Hevron-Kiryat Arba in Judea, including Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who was also behaving primary apportion during a time, while Netanyahu spent a weekend in Europe. This some-more than quadrupled a Jewish race there.

For some-more than a day, Hevron-Kiryat Arba became a city of over 50,000 strong.

The arise was a Torah reading, Chayei Sarah (the life of Sarah). In it, we schooled that a mama Sarah, has died in Kiryat Arba, that is Hevron (Genesis 23:2). Then, Abraham bought a funeral place for his dear mother Sarah and buried her there (Genesis 23:16-20).

That place is called today, a Tomb or Cave of a Patriarchs, or Ma’arat HaMachpelah. One of a many fought over holy sites in a world, and a second holiest place in Judaism, after a Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

But, given should it be fought over?

The Bible clearly tells everyone, that Abraham purchased it. The cavern and surrounding field, became a Jewish homestead and family funeral plot. Abraham’s squeeze enclosed a land around the cave, and we find all a patriarchs vital in Hevron. Abraham and Sarah are buried there. So, too are Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. Its good documented (Genesis 49:29-32, 50:12-13).

Who could competition it?

The “Palestinians,” and Arab/Muslim world, for one. And, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for another.

For instance in 2010, a news by UNESCO, labeled Kever Rachel or Rachel’s Tomb, a mosque. Imagine that? Its clearly documented that Rachel died and was buried by Jacob “…On a highway to Efrat, that is Bethlehem. Jacob set adult a relic over her grave; a a tomb of Rachel’s grave until today” (Genesis 35:19-20). And, Jews have been going there to urge for millennia.

And, in Oct 2016, UNESCO upheld a fortitude denying Jewish ties to holy sites in Jerusalem, including a Temple Mount (site of dual Jewish temples) and the Western Wall. The fortitude referred to a area using only their Arabic names, stating their importance to Islam. Tunisia and Lebanon due a fortitude on interest of a Palestinian Authority and Jordan.

At a time, Israeli Ambassador to a UN Danny Danon castigated UNESCO for a move, “The stupidity continues, and UNESCO has adopted nonetheless another absurd preference that is totally away from reality. UNESCO broke itself by marching to a balance of a Palestinian pipers. All attempts to repudiate a heritage, crush story and undo a Jewish people from a collateral and a homeland are cursed to fail.”

Then, in Jul 2017, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced a aged city of Hevron (where King David ruled before Jerusalem, I Kings 2:11), and a Tomb of a Patriarchs, “Palestinian” birthright sites.

In December 2017, Israel announced that it dictated to repel from UNESCO, after a US done a identical announcement, essentially given of UNESCO’s continuous anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli behavior.

PM Netanyahu in Sep 2018, explained given he would not attend a UNESCO sponsored contention on anti-Semitism, “Since 2009, UNESCO has upheld 71 resolutions condemning Israel and usually dual resolutions condemning all other countries combined. This is simply outrageous. Anti-Semitism once discriminated opposite and defamed a Jewish people. Today it distinguishes opposite and defames a Jewish state.”

Then during a commencement of Oct 2018, a PX Commission of a Executive Board of UNESCO, adopted a following resolution:

III. The dual Palestinian sites of Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi/Tomb of a Patriarchs in Al-Khalil/Hevron and a Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque/Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem

13. “Reaffirms that a dual endangered sites located in Al-Khalil/Hevron and in Bethlehem are an constituent partial of a Occupied Palestinian Territory…”

“Occupied Palestinian Territory?”

14. “Deplores a ongoing Israeli excavations, works, construction of private roads for settlers and of a Wall inside a Old City of Al-Khalil/Hevron…”

15. “Regrets a visible impact of a Wall on a site of Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque/Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem…”

Anything Israel does do, such as new roads and walls, are confidence precautions, to strengthen Jews from ongoing Arab attacks.

The resolutions were submitted by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, and approved, within mins after a commencement of a commission’s meeting, but most contention or debate, rubber-stamping a Palestinian’s request.

Israel’s envoy to a UN, Danny Danon, responded to a resolution, observant “This is serve evidence, for anyone who did not know given a United States and Israel withdrew from UNESCO, that again proves that UNESCO is a physique formed on lies and biases, and is deliberately behaving opposite us. The State of Israel will not be a member of an classification that is perplexing to rewrite story and peaceful to be manipulated by a enemies.”

Issuing a Press Release in response, in late October, The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), “…expressed regard about dual resolutions recently adopted by a elect of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).”

Commissioner Gary Bauer cautioned, “At a same time, Resolution 28 describes holy sites in Hevron/al-Khalil and Bethlehem only as ‘Palestinian sites’” And continued, “The thought that there’s a doubt about a Jewish chronological participation in a Holy Land and privately during these sites is unsuitable and diminishes a eremite rights of a Jewish people. UNESCO has no business pronouncing on territorial government or arbitrating territorial disputes.”

The new French, Jewish, self-declared leftist, Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, allocated in Nov 2017, has claimed to be perplexing to “reform” a organization. When she was brought in, she pronounced she would try to discharge a autochthonous enlightenment of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism during UNESCO. She has been operative hard, to forestall a withdrawal of a US and Israel, that is to take outcome during a finish of 2018. But given this latest fortitude was upheld on her watch, she seems mostly ineffectual.

If a members of UNESCO don’t know how to open adult a Bible and review about Abraham’s squeeze of a Ma’arah, Sarah’s funeral there, and later, how it becomes a family funeral tomb; If UNESCO members loathing Jews and Israel so much, and wish to repudiate their rights in a Land of Israel, afterwards Israel doesn’t go in UNESCO. Don’t theme Israeli diplomats to associate with a garland of illiterates, filled with loathing and lies.

As David Ben-Gurion said,“Um-Shmum.”

In 1955, a Israeli cupboard discussed Defense Minister Ben-Gurion’s plan to take over the Gaza Strip from Egypt, because of increasing apprehension attacks originating from there. PM Moshe Sharett, worrying about a UN response, pointed out that if it hadn’t been for a UN fortitude of 1947, a State of Israel would not have been founded. Ben-Gurion shouted, “Not during all! Only a adventurous of a Jews founded this country, and not some Um-Shmum resolution.”

UM is Hebrew for United Nations (HaUmot HaMeuchadot), and Shmum, is a tenure of belittlement. You get a point, Ben-Gurion didn’t consider most of a UN. And, conjunction should Israel today…

At a finish of Dec 2018, Israel’s dictated withdrawal from UNESCO becomes official. Let’s wish PM Netanyahu keeps his word.

Israel quit UNESCO, make Ben-Gurion proud!

Ariel Natan Pasko, an eccentric researcher and consultant, has a Master’s Degree specializing in International Relations, Political Economy Policy Analysis. His articles seem frequently on numerous news/views and think-tank websites and in newspapers. His latest articles can also be review on his archive: The Think Tank by Ariel Natan Pasko.