United Nations Betray Jewish Faith's Holy Sites

Regarding the rights of the Jews' claims to Jerusalem and their ancient lands: War and Conquest by nature do not only kill people, they remove the rights of human beings. If anyone values the work done by groups like the Red Cross (which tries to restore human dignity) then you have no valid reason to deny people the dignities they had before being killed and conquered. Israel is the ancestral home of the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, a home that they were violently forced from.

The actual history of the land is far more complicated than many are saying.There was in fact a forced Diaspora, it is not revisionist history.
Yes, plenty of Jews lived abroad thanks to the conquests of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks and Romans. Yes there were more Jews living in and around Alexandria than there were in Jerusalem during the time of the Roman Empire, but they all still called Jerusalem home. Despite the pre-existing Jewish populations scattered throughout the world there was a great diaspora that occurred in and around 77 AD when Jerusalem was completely destroyed by the Romans. Very few Jews that lived in the city and other rebel strongholds survived but many in the neighboring villages fled into Parthia, Egypt, Anatolia, and elsewhere. Some Jews were allowed to remain by the Romans and their descendants have lived there ever since. It is a mistake however to claim that the Jews from Europe are not actually Jews. As to the genetic relationship of many of the European Jewish immigrants who have resettled Israel since WW2, some people claim these current resettled Jews were simply descendants of European converts and are thus not really Jews and have no claim on Israel or Jerusalem. While this is true for some it is not the overall truth. Many of the European immigrants are either Sephardic or Ashkenazi Jews, both of these groups are genetically linked to the ancient Hebrews and are their descendants despite necessary interbreeding with Europeans over the last 2,000 years. Both of these groups do in fact have the heritage claim to the land of Israel that many are saying they don't have because they or their ancestors were born in Europe. Jews lived all over the Mediterranean, but over time their populations moved with political pressures and most of the actual descendants of Hebrews ended up in the regions of Germany, Poland, the Ukraine and Russia.

Despite the arguments for or against a political or social Israel or claims to the land in and around Jerusalem this situation is actually a matter of Religion. The UN's declaration is instead claiming that the Jews do not have the right to claim the Temple Mount as a Holy Site. The UN is claiming that the religion of the Jews has no religious claim to the ruins of their own historic Temples. This is the problem we're facing now, that the religion of the Jews is having obvious history denied in favor of politics. In essence the UN just declared that the Muslim Rock is more important than the Jewish Altar.

Now consider this: That Temple Mount is where many of Jesus' miracles occurred (as claimed by the New Testament) and is the site of many of the crucial events of the New Testament. Jesus and His Apostles were first and foremost Jews before the Jewish leaders rejected the "Christian" teachings. If the Jews do not have the religious claim to the Temple Mount then neither do the Christians. Our claims to the holy sites of that area come directly from the Jews. Without the holy sites of Judaism our Christian holy sites would not exist. How would you feel if a foreign government just declared that Christians do not have a right to the Mount of Olives, or to the Hill Calgary, or to the Garden Sepulcher?

Read the actual news:

Temple Mount:Jerusalem's Most Holy Site Has Nothing To Do with Judaism, UNESCO Rules

Thankfully, the UN Chief appears to have rejected the resolution. But I highly doubt that this problem is behind us. We will likely hear much about this in the future.

For those who have not read the UNESCO decision's text you may find it HERE. To be clear, UNESCO repeatedly remarks that it decries (disapproves of) Israeli unilateral decisions on construction etc. in the "old city" of Jerusalem and instead demands that Islamic authorities be given unilateral decision making power, even over Jewish holy sites. 

The situation in and around Jerusalem is incredibly complicated and hostile from both sides and the UN needs to stay out of the way because they are only making the situation worse.