For decades, the Palestinians have been very friendly with the United Nations, and the latter has helped the former to spread gigantic lies about Israel. The many and varied lies also touch on Jewish history, or, to say it a better way, the denial of Jewish history.

The Palestinians, beginning with Yasser Arafat, learned from the Soviets how to manipulate people with lies and propaganda, and it has always been relentless.

Since last year, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have resurrected the total lie that Israel is trying to destroy the Al-Aksa Mosque, on the Temple Mount. Make no mistake, this kind of egregious lie will one day be Judged. Until then, Israel must also fight on this front.

Let me be clear: there is no plot to destroy the Al-Aksa, or the Dome of the Rock. It’s painfully obvious that the Israelis have no interest in doing such a thing, and their security teams make sure no lone wolf attack can take place. I’ve been there several times and the security measures undertaken before one is allowed on the Temple Mount make it impossible for someone to smuggle anything onto the site that would damage the structures.

Yet the Palestinians continue to knowingly lie. Why? To keep their people in a constant state of turmoil and rage at the Jews, and the deflect attention from their own evil and corruption.

When you step onto the Temple Mount, the Al-Aksa (originally a Byzantine church) is on the right; the Dome of the Rock is on the left. Palestinians continually stream into Al-Aksa to pray and also be radicalized by clerics’ “sermons” that incite them to do violence to Jews. That Israel allows this behavior is somewhat of a mystery, but since the Six Day War, the policy has been to basically allow the Palestinina wakf (religious authority) to do what it wants.

The evil Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh contributes to the incitement, which has led to many Israeli deaths, which the UN does not care about. According to the Jerusalem Post:

“Haniyeh on Friday pledged that the current ‘intifada’ against Israel will continue as it is the will of the Palestinian people.

“’There are those who try to bury the al-Quds (Jerusalem) intifada, but this intifada will continue and it is the option of the people, the nation and the entire generation,’ he said at a rally in Gaza ahead of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day.”

Recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has issued another menacing resolution against the Jewish state:

“UNESCO’s Executive Board in Paris on Friday adopted a resolution whose language ignored Jewish ties to the holy religious site of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall area in Jerusalem’s Old City.

“The broad ranging resolution condemned Israeli actions in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. But the resolution focused in large part on Israeli actions with regard to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall Plaza.

“The resolution also charged that Israel had planted ‘Jewish fake graves’ in other Muslim cemeteries located on Wakf property east and south of the Al-Aksa mosque.

“The 58-member board approved the resolution 19 with 33 votes in favor, six against and 17 abstention. Two countries, Ghana and Turkmenistan were absent all together.

“Those countries who opposed it outright were: Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

“France, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among those countries who supported the resolution.

“A second resolution that more globally condemned Israeli actions, passed with 45 votes in favor, 1 vote against and 11 abstentions.”

The “fake Jewish graves” is language straight out of classic Palestinian propaganda, which proves that the PLO is helping shape even the propaganda language of UNESCO.

The truth is, the world stands by and tolerates horrific lies about Israel. Bill Clinton knew Arafat was denying Jewish history (claiming the Temples were never on the site). International diplomats listen to these kinds of lies constantly.

The two Democrat candidates for president knowingly lie about Israel (Clinton claiming Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are illegal, while Sanders accuses the IDF of war crimes in Gaza). Of the Republicans, it’s likely that only Ted Cruz understands the detail about geopolitics in the Middle East.

Let me say this: the toleration of lies about Israel from the international diplomatic and political community parallels that of church leadership that does the same thing. For decades, mainline church officials have cuddled up to the Arafats of the world, and now even evangelical leaders are totally silent when anti-Semites like Donald Miller accuse the IDF of war crimes in Gaza…with no documentation.

All this means of course that the global political and religious elites are birds of a feather. Corrupt and heartless, their cruelty and calculation are part of their desire to throw the Jews under the bus, hoping the jihadist will leave them alone. But notice: the putrid resolution from Paris comes from the same city attacked by jihadists. And Europe’s de facto capitol, Brussels, is also the victim of a jihadist attack.

The demons that run Hamas and the Palestinian Authority will have a short shelf life. So will all those who use their religious authority to spread lies about the Jews and Israel.

I wonder if they will be Judged more harshly in that day, simply because at least in theory, they should have known better.

Reprinted with author’s permission from Rapture Ready