One voice is missing, muted, shouting in his absence:
we are not occupying Jerusalem, as the Palestinians are lying and lying time and time again in the ears of the whole world.
A nation does not occupy its land and capital, but in the last month we have repeatedly fallen into this trap and talked about security and strategy, while in the matter of Jerusalem it is forbidden to base a series of arguments on existential and tactical needs only.
Our connection and commitment to this city transcends the concern, which is important in itself, for physical existence and security.
They rely mainly on Jewish tradition, religion, culture and history, and we have stopped talking about them.
When David Ben-Gurion was required in 1948 to campaign for Jerusalem and for the sake of the struggle for it, he mentioned that "the value of Jerusalem is not measurable," and "he could not be weighed and counted."
"If the land has a soul," Ben-Gurion explained, "then Jerusalem is its soul ... the battle for Jerusalem is decisive, and not only militarily ... that oath 'on the rivers of Babylon' is binding today as in those days, otherwise we will not be worthy of a people there. Israel".
Draw a red line: The green line is dead
But today there is no longer any talk of rights.
In the face of the cheeky affinity that Hamas is trying to create between Gaza and Jerusalem, Bennett, Lapid, Lieberman and Gantz have disappeared.
Perhaps it is the morass of Mansour Abbas and Ra'am, on whom the whole political existence of this impossible government is founded, and perhaps it is a built-in weakness of opinion. Whatever the reason: Especially when it comes to Jerusalem.
His absence is particularly noticeable these days, mainly because he is in the face of a strong presence in the discourse that the Palestinians and Arab states are conducting in front of the world.
These are not ashamed to kiss the "rugs of their land," to lie endlessly about their past here, and to rewrite and falsify history.
Our language, however, has become poor and impoverished.
It is impossible to base a claim for international legitimacy - not on Hebron beyond the "Green Line", nor on Be'er Sheva within this line, and especially not on Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and the Western Wall and the City of David - without the Bible and fathers and mothers and Jewish history.
Jerusalem, in Blinkan's words, is indeed a settlement - the just and largest Israeli settlement ever.
Here we must talk about nature itself, the nature of our connection to this city, our right and primacy in it, from the days of King David and the first and second temples to the days of 1948 and the Six Day War and our days.
Speak clearly, without stuttering and without apologizing.
To draw a red line, to make it clear that here - in Jerusalem, the most distinct pattern of memory of the Jewish people - we are not conquering.
That the green line is dead.
That relinquishing our rights in Jerusalem would turn our right to the Land of Israel into a disabled right.
That there will be no more division here - not in the neighborhoods, not in the Old City and certainly not on the Temple Mount.
The Western Wall is the corridor to the Temple Mount
Although the Temple Mount was closed to Jews at the end of this Ramadan, it must also be known and told the truth: the only reason why Jews have been praying for more than a thousand years along the Western Wall is the barriers placed before them (halakhic or political) to pray on the mountain itself.
The Western Wall is perhaps the "little temple", the most important and sacred of all the other synagogues - "little temples" too - but it is not the place of the temple.
It is not even the western wall of the Temple, as has been mistakenly believed for centuries, but the western wall of the Temple Mount compound.
It has its own sanctity, but it is certainly not the holiest place for the Jewish people, as Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recently erred.
The Temple Mount, on which Muslims built two houses of worship 1,350 years ago, is the holiest place for the Jewish people and only the third holiest in Sunni Islam (after Mecca and Medina).
The Western Wall is the replacement for the Temple Mount;
A solution of retrospectively, and not in the first place;
A necessary step probably on the way to the mountain.
The Western Wall is the corridor, while the Temple Mount is the lounge.
Only the halakhic ruling over many generations, which today has changed greatly, prevented Jews from ascending the mountain and left us at its feet.
We are tied to the Western Wall in thickets of tears and holiness, but it is only the substitute.
The source, which will one day also be used to arrange Jewish prayers, is the mountain.
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