The Kotel – moss and sadness
The Kotel – lead and blood.
There are people with hearts of stone,
There are stones with human hearts.
(Yossi Gamzu)

The liberation and reunification of Jerusalem united more than the physical city itself.  It united hearts and minds across the entire spectrum of the Jewish nation.  From religious rabbis to secular poets; from old people who remembered touching the stones to young children who only had the memory of other people's memories...  The liberation of the Old City, and particularly the Western Wall, carried immense implications for all.

Yossi Gamzu wrote these words only hours after the liberation of the Old City, while standing with a group of military reporters in the narrow alleyway of the Kotel. "In contrast to the mass number of albums that glorified the war and its heroes," relates Gamzu, "In this song, I sought out the human stories."   
It is fascinating to note that Gamzu was not the first to find the heart in the stones of the Kotel.  In "Behind Our Wall", Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, described the Kotel in the following way:

"…Even if the shame of the destruction covers its appearance,
even if the signs of destruction stand out prominently from its back,
and the clouds of desolation overshadow its radiance…
even if it is hidden behind the thicket of shady and filthy alleys,
and even if it pushed aside and squashed in the battle of its neighbors
who surround it from every angle and try to invade its borders,
to diminish and wipe it out –
Like a stone fortress, it stands guard,
without moving and without its internal glory weakening,
pure and exalted in the strength of its identity…
Because it is a remnant of something holy and precious.
There are hearts and there are hearts –
there are human hearts and hearts of stone.
There are stones and there are stones –
there are stones that look like stones,
and there are stones which are actually hearts…" 

Taken from: "Eternal Jerusalem – the Poems, Songs, Sites and People", Ze'ev Aner and Roni Shir.