For nearly two millennia, Jewish religious architecture and political infrastructure have been colonized and desecrated by anti-Semitic agitators, enraptured by blood lust and blood libel. Today, as the Jewish state of Israel fights for its very survival, the same aggrieved forces attempt to rewrite history and erase the last indelible imprints of Jewish historical existence.
The Western Wall is the skeletal frame of Jewish historical identity. Enclosing the religious nerve center of the Davidic Kingdom, the Wall has borne witness to unspeakable horrors. The Wall’s resilient stones stood in stoic defiance as its builders were butchered to death by the Romans, Crusaders, Muslim invaders, Ottoman Turks, Brits, and Sunni Arab Palestinians.
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