UNESCO's Regrettable Self-Assisted Suicide

"The Executive Board and World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have recently been manipulated into adopting resolutions tantamount to denying Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem and its holy sites, and thereby attempting to re-write and corrupt accepted and proven history.

These resolutions, adopted at the behest of the Palestinian leadership and Arab states and supported by other states members of the organization, were generated ... as part of a general aim to enhance the Islamic character of Jerusalem through denying and deleting Jerusalem's prior Judaic and Christian origins.

In attempting to rewrite and corrupt history and truth and in permitting itself to be manipulated and politicized, UNESCO has acted beyond the powers [ultra-vires] of its own constitution and has permitted itself to be taken hostage by elements intent on achieving a political end through undermining the universal character of UNESCO as a professional, educational and cultural organization...

UNESCO can no longer be regarded as an objective, universal and professional specialized agency. Its special character as the educational and cultural organ of the UN has been gravely and irreparably polluted and prejudiced..."