“The next ‘prize’ the Palestinians will likely claim as their own at UNESCO will p
“The next ‘prize’ the Palestinians will likely claim as their own at UNESCO will probably be the archeological site of Qumran and its Dead Sea Scrolls, Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Wednesday…This request may come up at the next meeting of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee this July in Bahrain…But among the most tumultuous of issues since the Palestinians joined UNESCO have been its Executive Board’s approvals of resolutions that ignore Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.The text of what came to be known as the Jerusalem resolutions called those sites solely by their Islamic names of al-Haram al-Sharif and the Buraq Plaza…”Source: Here -- source link