Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotevely in response to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision registering the Ma’aras HaMachpelah as a Palestinian Heritage site in danger stated: “This is a badge of shame for UNESCO who time after time chooses to stand on the side of lies”.
The Deputy Minister added that “in spite of the efforts of senior diplomats in the Foreign Ministry who have tried in the past weeks to thwart the decision that denies history, and despite the achievement of the secret vote, the automatic Arab majority succeeded in passing the proposed resolution that attempts to appropriate the national symbols of the Jewish people.
“In another thousand years, the Machpelah will remain under Jewish sovereignty and UNESCO will cease to exist as a heritage organization”.
Deputy Minister Hotevely further added “the same automatic majority would also have passed a resolution that the sun rises in the west and not in the east. Israel will not surrender to historic distortion and will continue the fight against the bias of UN institutions regarding Israel.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I think Israel should release a decision listing the United nations building as a World Heritage Site on the land of the Iroquois Indians. It does not necessarily need to be substantiated by evidence.