Yup---if this had been done to a moham mosque, it would be considered the hate crime of the century. There would be a fit of backlash of sensitivity training and diversity and hate-crime awareness public service announcements and telethons. Editorialists and NPR commentators would be wringing hands and gnashing teeth over the permanently warped lives of moslem children who witnessed on their tv screens the site of their holy sites desecrated so vilely yadayadayada.
Personally, I'd like to see an equally "militant" Christian group march over to the Dome of the Rock with a couple of large bombs and bring the structure down to the consistency of CAT LITTER.
Then bring the cats over to use it, of course. Or better yet, pigs.
What is it going to take for people around the world to realize what the Israelis already know; you cannot deal honorably with arafat or his people. The 26 palestinian militants who were supposed to go to jail in Gaza are riding around, with new guns, in a hero's parade. I'm sure they too will also be getting a beachfront vacation. And we are supposed to be compassionate because "you have to understand, we have been oppressed." ENOUGH! These are the same people who danced in celebration of 9-11.
Would it do any good to express our outrage anywhere? Who would listen and/or do anything? Kofi, yea right! What can we do?