the UNESCO talk hasn’t died down. I suppose it’s not such a surprise. As the Boston Globe put it: “One needn’t be a scholar or a historian to know that the cultural, religious and emotional bonds that link the Jews to Jerusalem are unparalleled. For millennia, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount have been central to Jewish self-awareness . . .” In first act of his reign, King David moved his kingdom to the capital: Jerusalem. This was almost 3,000 years ago. King David’s son, Solomon, built the first Temple in Jerusalem. I learned this somewhere along Middle School. It is preposterous even to address UNESCO’s distorted claim of implicitly denying the link of the Jews and Jerusalem, and within Jerusalem of the Jews and the […]
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