 " Being judged before you today stands a nation that has been deprived of everything that is dear and sacred to it from its emergence in its own land – the graves of its patriarchs , the graves of its great kings , the graves of its holy prophets and , above all , the site of its glorious Temple . Everything has been taken from it and of all the witnesses to its sanctity , only one vestige remains – one side of a tiny portion of a wall , which , on one side , borders the place of its former Temple . In front of this bare stone wall , that nation stands under the open sky , in the heat of summer and in the rains of winter , and pours out its heart to its God in heaven . " 
