Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack by Allen Goodman, an American-born Israeli soldier, on one of the most sacred sites in Islam, the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, had inflamed Arab passions throughout the Middle East. The incident occurred, moreover, at a time of extreme anxiety in the region. Plagued with doubts about the wisdom of its action, Israel was preparing to withdraw from the final third of the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, while Egypt waited anxiously to see if the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem...
Chuck Lane's "Losing Control" (April 15th) presents the recent violence in Jerusalem in a rather distorted context. The piece asserts that the deplorable attack on the Dome of the Rock Mosque--by a deranged Israeli reservist--is "a vivid example of the extremism fostered by the Israelis' uncompromising attitude...
...then ran toward the Dome of the Rock, one of the two main mosques on the Temple Mount. The rock, at the center of the shrine, is the traditional site where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the place from which, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on a horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered...
Fearing widespread trouble, Israeli soldiers immediately closed the seven entrances to the Old City. As word of the shooting spread, hundreds of Arabs gathered in angry clusters at the courtyard of the Dome of the Rock. At one point, 100 Arab youths, approaching a group of soldiers, chanted Barra, barra! (Out, out!). Reports TIME's Robert Slater: "Suddenly stones were being hurled at the soldiers. One of them fired a tear-gas canister at the crowd, which then fled toward the Dome of the Rock. Meanwhile, soldiers were moving toward the protesters in a pincer movement. I found myself...
Shouting, "revenge, revenge" and firing recklessly into a crowd of worshippers, Alan Harry Goodman--a deranged Israeli solider--murdered two Arabs while they prayed at Islan's third-holiest shrine, Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock Mosque. Goodman critically wounded four other Muslims before he was arrested...