Word: domes
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Compared with Watergate, a scandal like Teapot Dome was onedimensional, a routine political corruption played out at high levels. Watergate was crucially different. It was not a grab for mon ey, but for power; that distinction, in a democracy, is everything. Moneygrubbing is unsavory. Power grabbing, the plot to steal an election (which, weirdly enough, was already safely assured), was infinitely more serious. It was an attack on the American idea. That is important because if America loses its idea, it becomes merely sordid and fallen and dangerous...
...administration. Two weeks ago, he dismissed a fourth mayor. The first round of firings led to strikes and demonstrations in the West Bank and even in Gaza, which had previously been relatively dormant. As the reaction began to die down, a shooting rampage by an Israeli soldier at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem stirred up Palestinian resentment against Israeli rule all over again. The soldier, American-born Alan Goodman, has been charged with the murder of an Arab guard...
...Temple Mount, an eerie calm prevailed. Shattered glass fragments, almost jewel-like in their symmetry, lay in piles outside the walls of the Dome of the Rock. Inside the eight gates to the Mount, Israeli troops and police stood guard, restricting the entry of would-be worshipers. The Israelis clearly feared that the entire area might become a staging ground for further demonstrations against the Israeli presence in the vicinity of the sacred mosque...
...Israeli was particularly surprised to hear Rabbi Meir Kahane extolling Allen Goodman after his wanton shooting in the Dome of the Rock mosque as a "hero who tried to liberate the Temple Mount from the hands the foreigners." Since 1971, the Brooklyn-born Kahane, 49, has become as familiar a figure in Israel for his extreme right-wing views as he was in New York City in the late 1960s, when he founded the Jewish Defense League. Kahane seeks to drive all Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. "I want to remove the Arabs of Israel...
Israel has shown a sensitivity unique in the Middle East to the concerns of minority religious communities. Since the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, Muslim control of the city mosques has been diligently respected. Had there been Israeli sentries at the entrance of the Dome of the Rock perhaps the tragedy could have been averted. Pilgrims from all over the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan-nations at war with Israel-are offered unlimited access to their holy places. And the Israeli government has even denied Jews the right to pray near the holy Temple Mount-which lies...