"UNESCO has become a theater of the absurd because, instead of preserving history, it distorts it," he said in a statement.
"This is a brave and moral decision," Netanyahu said, "because UNESCO has become a theater of the absurd.
This has become a relevant issue after the 2011 UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape Recommendation withdrew its call for authenticity from the forefront of urban heritage conservation.
Since then, under ambassadors appointed by presidents of both parties the US has become a major player in every realm of Unesco.
That is the year Unesco ratified a landmark convention prohibiting traffic in illicit antiquities, and it has become a widely accepted cutoff for collecting.
That is the year Unesco ratified a landmark convention prohibiting traffic in illicit antiquities, and it has become a widely accepted cutoff for antiquities collecting.
Since Rhodes has become a UNESCO World Heritage City (1988), however, and especially in recent years, traces of the era when Muslims ruled the city are being deleted, both passively through neglect and actively by demolitions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Facebook post that Unesco had become a "theatre of the absurd" in taking "another delusional decision".
The Reagan administration withdrew from Unesco in 1984, charging that it had become a forum for spreading anti-American propaganda and was chronically mismanaged and corrupt.
Whatever the explanation, largely as a result of Ms. Reiche's work, the Nazca lines have become a major tourist attraction and were designated a world heritage site by Unesco in 1995.
