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To Deny Our History in This Land Is an Attempt to Deny Our Future
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Prime Minister Netanyahu told the Christians United for Israel Jerusalem Summit on March 8: We face great challenges to our security, but we also face unprecedented challenges to our legitimacy. This assault on our legitimacy comes in many forms - it comes from the so-called human rights bodies in the UN which would deny Israel its legitimate right of self-defense; it comes by falsely charging Israel's political and military leaders with imaginary war crimes; and it comes by the outrageous campaigns to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. But there is an even greater assault on our legitimacy - the attempt to perpetrate one of the greatest lies of history - to deny the connection between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel; to cast the Jewish people as foreigners in the land of our forefathers. The attempt to deny our history in this land is an attempt to deny our future in this land. That is why to defend our past is to defend our future. I ask you all to join us in this battle to defend the truth. Remind them of Abraham and Isaac, remind them of Joshua and Samuel, remind them of David and Solomon. Remind the world that the land of the Bible is not in the heavens but right here on earth. And that the people of the Bible are on the land of the Bible. I show visiting foreign officials a signet ring on loan from the Department of Antiquities that was found next to the Wall of the Second Temple, but dates back to the First Temple. It goes back some 2,800 years ago, to the period of the Kings. It is a signet seal of a Jewish official, and it has a name written in ancient Hebrew, which I can read. The name is: Netanyahu. Netanyahu Ben-Yoash. I say that's my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back 1,000 years earlier, to Benjamin the son of Jacob, who also walked these hills. That is our connection. And nobody can deny the connection of the Jewish people to the Jewish land.