According to historian and Deputy Minister Michael Oren (Kulanu party), it depends who you ask.

Speaking at a June 10 Jerusalem event celebrating the opening of the "Seals of Isaiah and King Hezekiah Discovered" exhibit at the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation in Oklahoma and 50 years of archaeological collaboration between the Armstrong Foundation and Israel, Oren said that in Jerusalem, archaeology serves as a tool for proving the Jewish people's roots in the land.

"By digging down into the earth of the Holy Land and finding our answers in there, we established our roots here and showed ... we're not interlopers or migrants, we're not survivors of the Holocaust that Europe dumped here," as even Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas claimed as recently as a month ago. "We are indigenous people."

Archaeology, said Oren, is key to "our validity, legitimacy and security ... Archaeology is not just about revealing the past. It is about acquiring the present and ensuring our future"...

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