PM Netanyahu's Office Response to UNESCO Decision on the Church of the
Nativity

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

"It has been proven that UNESCO is motivated by political, not cultural,
considerations.

Instead of the Palestinians carrying out steps that will advance peace, they
take unilateral steps that only push peace further away.

The world needs to remember that the Church of the Nativity, which is sacred
to Christianity, has been desecrated in the past by Palestinian terrorists
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/2000_2009/2002/3/operation%20defensive%20shield#bethlehem
"