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As others have mentioned, people used to go to the kosel long before the Zionists started making problems in Eretz Yisrael (well before 1948).
So all the Zionists accomplished with “Har HaBayis BiYadeinu” in 1967 was to undo a very, very small part of the damage that they themselves, the Zionists, did up to and including 1948. That’s besides for the cost in Jewish blood, other issurim, etc. that it took to both inflict that damage and to undo it.
So the perspective of the kosel being a 1967 “gift from Hashem” is faulty and short-sighted as well. That “gift from Hashem” was always there, and it is the Zionists who lost it in 1948 in the first place.
The Zionists are true to form in celebrating this day, like the Satmar Rav’s mashal of the arsonist bringing a hose after setting a massive fire.