Monday, October 17, 2016

Israel is celebrating Sukkot now, and, according the old tradition, on Wednesday at the Wailing Wall thousands of Jews will gather.


They will take part in the blessing of Kohanims. This is one of the largest worship. During the worship representatives of old family of Kohanim – the Hebrew priests, originating from Aaron, brother of Moses, covered with Talita are proclaiming a prayer in which they remind us about services in times of the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem.

This year's gathering will have special meaning. Israeli Foreign Minister Aryeh Deri urged more people to come to worship, to prove that the relationship of Jews and their holy sites is indestructible.

The reason is the scandalous resolution, that have been recently adopted by UNESCO. It denies the Jewish connection to their main shrines - the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. The authors of this nonsense wereEgypt and the Palestinian National Authority, they made a resolution voted. The document, which in addition, fordozen times accuses Israel in "occupation of Palestinian territories," was supported by 24 countries. Russia is among them. Representatives of Ukraine, refrained from legitimizing this nonsense. Thank you for this.

I totally support the position of the head of the Israeli government Benjamin Netanyahu on the matter. He gave wonderful examples: "The claim that the Jewish people is not related to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, is as absurd as the claim that China is not related to the Great Wall of China and Egypt – to the pyramids. This absurd ofUNESCO left it without any legitimacy ". I believe that an international organization of the such level as UNESCOis, has no moral right to play on the side of certain countries and speculate with historical heritage. Such a decisiondoes not only offend all the jewish believers, but also those who simply are proud of their history.

This is not the first anti-Israeli resolution, agreed by the Organization for Education, Science and Culture of the United Nations. This confuses me. How and why does the well-know international organization create new conflicts at the time when the world suffers from their dominance?

I am sure, Ukrainians understand the position of Israel. This feeling of encroachment on their territory alsodominates in Ukraine. Friends, we must support each other, or history and faith will have no value at all.

Now organization is going to reconsider its decision and is planning to move the final vote. Perhaps they becameafraid, after Israel stopped its cooperation with UNESCO. I want to assure the importantce of the correction of such shameful moment . But there is a bitter note that this happened, so we cannot remove it from the final song.

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