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...called a preemptive action against terror attacks. The latest Israeli actions follow two attempted bombing attacks in Jerusalem as well as a mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza. And Sunday's clashes at Jerusalem's holy sites - Israeli police entered the Muslim compound atop the Temple Mount after Palestinian youths threw stones down on Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza below, at the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple - have added gasoline to the embers...
...attempted bombings in Jerusalem and a mortar attack on Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom in Gaza. But in the realm of perceptions, no event in recent months carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque compound atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab world - will cast the fracas...
...humanity. We owe it to posterity to pursue it. But we also owe posterity a moral universe not trampled and corrupted by arrogant, brilliant science. It is precisely because of the glittering promise of stem-cell research that we need great care, great vigilance and great restraint as we mount the slippery slope...
Historian and Mount Holyoke professor Joseph Ellis fabricated stories about his experiences in Vietnam but never saw active duty in the war [HISTORY, July 2]. That is a disgrace. Ellis needs to go to the Vietnam Memorial and touch every name on the wall. He will then realize what he has done. SEAN MCMONAGLE Cleveland, Ohio...
...flattered but not exactly reassured by his assessment. My project is vaguely about a religious site in Jerusalem’s Old City that has taken on an increased political significance in the Middle East peace process. Known as the Temple Mount in Judaism and as the Noble Sanctuary in Islam, the site has a tremendous importance in all three of the world’s monotheistic religions, although contemporary arguments about sovereignty over the site mainly involve the Israelis and the Palestinians. The story of the site is a mess of competing religious claims, conflicting historical narratives and violent...