At Hanukkah, Israel and US Condemn UN Text Omitting Jewish Links to Judaism’s Holiest Site As Jews around the world celebrate a holiday marking the rededication of the Jewish Temple almost 2,200 years ago, the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution that refers to the Jerusalem hilltop where that Temple stood – the holiest site in Judaism – solely by its Islamic name.
The resolution passed by a large majority – 129 votes to 11 – with 31 abstentions.
Voting “no” alongside Israel were the United States, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Hungary, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau.
Ahead of the vote, U.S. representative Richard Erdman objected to a text that referred to Haram al-Sharif, the Islamic name for the site, but not the Temple Mount.
Terminology that includes both – “Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount” – he said, “recognizes the shared and diverse history of the holy site.”
“The omission of this inclusive terminology is of real and sincere concern. It is morally, historically, and politically wrong for the members of this body to support language that denies both the Jewish and Muslim connections to the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif.”
Israeli permanent representative Gilad Erdan called it “absurd” that the text called for the maintenance of the status quo in Jerusalem, even as the resolution essentially did the opposite.............
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