Washington - The United States will continue to oppose resolutions "anti-Israel" at UNESCO as it did with the text adopted on Wednesday that denies all connection between the Mount of the Jerusalem Temple and Judaism, merely to consider it as a Muslim place of worship, which is the al Aqsa Mosque.
"The US opposes firmly to these resolutions. We are deeply concerned with this kind of recurring politicized resolutions that do not contribute to advance constructive results on the ground and we do not think that should be adopted," said the spokesman of the State Department Mark Toner.
The resolution, proposed by Palestine and rejected by Israel, was adopted today with 24 votes in favor, 26 abstentions and six votes against, including the US, the Executive Board of UNESCO, composed of 58 countries.
Asked about the resolution in his daily press conference, Toner said the anti-Israel resolutions were a recurring challenge in UNESCO in recent years and noted that, "obviously, the US" firmly opposed to all of them on the Board. "
"This type of recurrent politicized vision underscores the need for the US to reaffirm its leadership within UNESCO," he added.
The spokesman admitted that this influence "weakened" since 2011, when the country failed to pay their quotas in the body in response to the admission of Palestine as a Member State. "We will continue to work with Congress to make an amendment in this regard and seek ways in which we can pay these debts to power, again, be a full member of UNESCO," said Toner.
The resolution adopted today at UNESCO disapproves exhaustively Israel's attitude with regard to access to the Temple Mount and refers to him only as al Aqsa Mosque, calling it one of Islam site.
Considered the third holiest site for Muslims after Mecca and Medina, the mosque was built in a place that the Jews consider to have housed two biblical temples, the Solomon destroyed by the Babylonians in the sixth century BC, and Herod, overthrown by Roman legions in 70 AD
Israel, which controls the Temple Mount since the Six Day War (1967), when he occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem, allows Muslims pray on site, but on some occasions, restricts access for reasons of security.
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