Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, in a statement, described the Unesco decision as “delusional.”Advertisement Continue reading the main story“This time they determined that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is a Palestinian site, i.e. Not a ‘Jewish’ site? In the run-up to the vote, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, sent a letter to two senior United Nations officials asking them to withhold the Hebron designation. And it further discredits an already highly questionable U.N. agency.”Israel has long viewed many United Nations bodies as hopelessly biased against it. And in 2012, the United Nations General Assembly decided to upgrade the status of Palestine to a nonmember observer state of the United Nations.

Source: New York Times July 07, 2017 16:11 UTC