The Zehut party responded to the police ban to allow Jews to ascend the Temple Mount. "We were trained to think that the Temple Mount is the great danger to our existence. But the truth is the exact opposite. The Temple Mount is the foundation of our identity and the purpose of our national existence."
"When we deny purpose, turn our backs on the sacredness of our places, when we prohibit Jews from praying in the place of the Temple and the object of the yearnings of all generations, we enhance our enemies' sense of justice and confidence in the temporary nature of our existence here. This denial of our identity is the root cause of the never-ending war. Without the mount there is no home. Not in Benjamin, not in Sderot, nor in Tel Aviv."