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Israel to EU: Voting to Recognize Temple Mount as Solely Muslim Ignores Christianity
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Israel warned the European Union on Thursday that supporting a UNESCO resolution which views the Temple Mount as a solely Muslim site is akin to ignoring Europe's Christian roots. "If the Europeans have a hand in a UNESCO decision that rejects or does not deal with the Jewish people's relationship to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, are they not rejecting their own identity?" asked Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon. "There is no Christianity without Judaism and there is no Jesus without a Jewish Jerusalem and the Temple Mount." Jordan and the Palestinians are pushing for approval of such a resolution at UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, currently meeting in Istanbul.