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Israel Unearths the Truth
Sean Durns
June 8, 2025

Those who control the past, George Orwell famously warned, control the future. In his new book, When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You to Know, author Doron Spielman brilliantly connects battles over the Jewish people’s past to present efforts to deny the Jewish state’s legitimacy. As he makes clear: The past matters more than ever. On its surface, When the Stones Speak is about the discovery of the ancient City of David, which sits just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. But thanks to Spielman’s gift for storytelling and his welcome penchant for using history to explain current events, the book is about far more than an archaeological dig…In fact, the Jewish presence in the land has been continuous, and it predates the Arab and Islamic conquests by millennia. But acknowledging this would present Zionism—the belief in Jewish self-determination in the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland—as a “liberation movement.” And this runs counter to those who hope to present Israel as an evil, imperialist transplant. READ MORE

CBN ‘When the Stones Speak’: Author Says Wave of Biblical Jerusalem’s Discoveries Threatens Israel’s Enemies The pace of archaeological finds has picked up dramatically in recent years in the City of David, just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls. The City of David is the Jerusalem described in the Bible. CBN News talked with Doron Spielman, who has written a new book called When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You To Know. Spielman recounts many of the discoveries that confirm biblical historical figures and events, and says each archaeological find is a threat to Israel’s adversaries because “There’s an assault on the Bible, and the City of David is the most dangerous thing for those deniers.” CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO