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...shrines of importance to so many people. The main objective of Israeli troops in June 1967 was the Wailing Wall, a surviving remnant of the rampart that encircled the Second Temple, which was destroyed in A.D. 70 by vengeful Romans. Beyond the Wall stand Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which marks the spot where Mohammed, around A.D. 620, is said to have started his remarkable "Night Journey" to the seven heavens in company with the Archangel Gabriel. Near by are the Via Dolorosa, the path that Christians believe was followed by Jesus...
...contrast to the Jordanian government, which violated an 1852 agreement on the status quo of the holy places when it barred Jewish pilgrims from the Wailing Wall, Israel allows access to the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque to all Moslems, even those from nations with which it is technically at war. In fact, Israel's occupation has been altogether benevolent-with one exception. Earlier this year, Israel's housing minister mounted "a Zionist exhibition" by confiscating Arab land for high-rise apartments to be occupied by Jewish families. The proposal, since scaled down in response...
From a theological viewpoint, at least, a Jerusalem under Israeli jurisdiction makes certain sense. More than for Christianity or Islam, the city has special meaning for Judaism. For Moslems, Jerusalem invokes deep feelings, and the Dome of the Rock makes the city the third holiest for Moslems after Mecca and Medina. Still, there is no imperative for the devout to visit the Dome as there is for them to make a hadj to Mecca. For Christians, the city will always be a unique place of pilgrimage because of its role in Jesus' life, death and resurrection...
...part of any broader agreement on Jerusalem. Jewish and Moslem shrines will not present much difficulty. Israel is not anxious to continue unilateral responsibility for non-Jewish holy places; soon after the '67 war, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan offered to let any designated Arab flag fly over the Dome of the Rock and other Moslem shrines. The offer still holds. Since Moslems already administer the shrines and support them as well, Arab flags above the minarets would be largely a matter of symbolism. What national flags they ought to be, however, is a problem for Arabs to thresh...
...simply too arrogant a presumption to say flat out that kind humans are alone in the universe," he says. "Sometimes this kind of mystical belief rings truer than the cleanest scientific logic. That's why I dig Shelley's poetic leap of faith: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity...