Morning on the Mount

From: The Jerusalem Report | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

"Have you heard? The Temple Mount is in our hands!" exclaims the security guard, with a goofy grin and fervor straight out of the Six- Day War, as he runs my bag through an X-ray machine at the entrance to the Western Wall plaza. The chubby police officer on the ramp leading up from the plaza to the Temple Mount is also in high spirits: "It's open, go wherever you want," he tells me with proprietorial pride as he checks my bag yet again. "Ahalan wa'sahlan," says a young man in the uniform of the Islamic Waqf standing at the top of the ramp and holding a walkie-talkie. "Welcome."

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