UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is to vote today on a resolution assigning the holiest site in Judaism status as a Muslim holy site.  If the resolution passes, the imprimatur of the United Nations will be given to the efforts of Muslims to deny the historical reality that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the site of the First and Second Temples of Judaism, only to be conquered by Muslims, and appropriated as their holy site, through the construction of the Dome of the Rock. The Western Wall, sometimes called the “Wailing Wall,” is the holiest site in Judaism, the remnant of the First and Second Temples, the first destroyed by the Babylonians and the Second by the Roman legions in 70 C.E. following a revolt against Roman rule.  Six centuries later, following the conquest of Jerusalem by the Umayyad Caliphate, the holy site was appropriated by Muslims as the place from which their tradition asserts that...(Read Full Post)