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44 Satan in the Sanctuary

Rabbi Rabinowitz's view of the halacha and Jewish rights
to the mount may well have been what prompted the more
massive prayer movement in 1975, with its accompanying
repercussions. Certainly the Supreme Court would not have
spoken on the question at all if it had not foreseen such in-
cidents.

JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN CONCERN
For the Muslims to express strenuous objection to Jewish
prayer on the mount, and even to riot, is rather to be ex-
pected. But there was also a great deal of Jewish and Chris-
tian concern over the incident of 1975. Letters poured in to
the Post, mostly expressing the obvious point that the mount
is, after all, a Jewish prayer ground. We submit the following
letters as representative of the Jewish and Christian views:

LETTERS

PRAYERS ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
To the Editor of The Jerusalem While on the subject of the
Post Temple Mount, may I draw your
Sir,—Apparently, few people your attention to the fact that the
were aware that, since June Islamic authorities have trans-
1967, Jews had no right to pray formed the inside of the marvel-
on the Temple Mount because of lous Golden Gate into the junk-
the strong objections of the local yard of the two Mosques, and its
Islamic authorities. Thanks to a direct approach is barred by
courageous judge in Jerusalem, barbed wire. The Golden Gate
Mrs. Ruth Or, this amazing situ- is the site of a former Christian
ation will now be corrected. Such basilica and the gate through
a situation should never have which the Jews expect the Mes-
been tolerated, but is just another siah to arrive and the Christians
example of the strange lack of expect the second coming of
dignity in the official Israeli ap- Jesus. Such desecration should
proach to other religions. be stopped immediately and,