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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...
After a day of rioting, the entire city of Rafah (pop. 80,000) in the Gaza Strip was placed under curfew by Israeli authorities. When East Jerusalem's Supreme Muslim Council called for a protest march to the Temple Mount, Israeli riot police and troops moved in and arrested 32 of the leaders before the marchers had taken ten steps. Shaking with fury, a prominent East Jerusalem resident, Anwar Nusseibeh, declared: "The transgression on the Temple Mount was not against us; it was against the values of everyone who believes in God. All we intended to do today...
...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...
...that this would happen? How could the man be crazy and yet be accepted into the Israeli armed forces?" Only a week before the incident, the Arabs asserted, leaflets had been distributed, purportedly from an ultranationalist Jewish group, warning that if Jews were not permitted to pray on the Mount, the place would be taken by force. In fact, two East Jerusalem newspapers had received a letter expressing this view a day or two before the shooting. Israeli authorities, evidently taking the threats seriously, had assured Muslims that the holy places would be protected...
...Despite the suspicion of Arabs that Goodman was neither deranged nor acting alone, there was no evidence last week that the shooting incident had been planned by any of the groups that in the past have been active in insisting on the Jewish right to pray on the Temple Mount, site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. The Israelis do not allow Jews to pray there, in part to protect Muslim sensibilities and in part because the chief rabbis believe that the site of the Temple's Holy of Holies might inadvertently be desecrated...