"'Maybe they will learn a lesson,' a former Israeli ambassador to UNESCO told The Algemeiner on Tuesday as the Jewish state officially left the global cultural institution.
David Kornbluth - who served as Israel's UNESCO envoy from 2005-2009 - said the country was pulling out of the body now largely because the US had scheduled to leave by the end of 2018...
Kornbluth slammed UNESCO for its focus on Israel, saying, 'It's very, very inappropriate when they come up with these sort of anti-Israel resolutions all the time. Denying the relationship with Jerusalem or Hebron or things like that. And they bash away at it. I mean it becomes part of what UNESCO believes or teaches. ... They're led by the Arab extremists who have nothing to do with wanting peace or wanting good relations with Israel at all.'
On the question of whether UNESCO's legitimacy will be damaged by the absence of the US and Israel, Kornbluth surmised, 'Yes, yes it will. Definitely.'..."