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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=36659
Jewish Ties to the Land of Israel
(Israel Hayom) Dror Eydar - Hebrew is an ancient language. Hebrew speakers are able to read texts that date back 2,000 years or more. Several weeks ago, archaeologists revealed how the decorative floor of the Temple looked, discovered after intensive work putting together fragments of stone that had been found among rubble removed from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The enormous excitement about the discovery demonstrated that it had touched a raw nerve as we encountered a remnant of our past as a people. The Palestinians routinely refer to the Jewish Temple as "imagined" and the stories of the Bible as "imaginary." The reason is clear: If there is no historic link between the Jewish people and this land, then we are foreign invaders who took control of a country that wasn't ours. But we don't live by what the Palestinians say. The "iron wall" that Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky sought to erect between us and our enemies, so that they would despair of ever driving us out, is, first and foremost, an iron wall of consciousness.