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UNESCO Resolution on Jerusalem Undercuts the Foundation of Christianity
(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - Last week, the UN's premier cultural agency, UNESCO, approved a resolution viciously condemning Israel for various alleged trespasses and violations of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Except that the resolution never uses that term for Judaism's holiest shrine. It refers to and treats it as an exclusively Muslim site, a deliberate attempt to eradicate its connection - let alone its centrality - to the Jewish people and Jewish history. This Orwellian absurdity also makes a mockery of the Gospels, which chronicle the story of a Galilean Jew whose life and ministry unfolded throughout the Holy Land, most especially in Jerusalem and the Temple. If this is nothing but a Muslim site, what happens to the very foundation of Christianity, which occurred 600 years before Islam even came into being?