http://www.jcpa.org/jpsr/s99-yc.htm
...After the Temple Mount fell to the Israeli Army on the second day of the 1967 war, [Shlomo] Goren, then Army Chief Rabbi [and later Ashkenaz Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel], asked Central Region Commander General Uzi Narkiss to place 100 kg. of dynamite in the Dome of the Rock.
Goren repeated the need to blow up the Dome of the Rock at an all-day seminar on the Temple Mount for reservists in the military rabbinate. In the heat of war, where there was much bombing, such an action could have been carried out, Goren claimed, without even a formal military order to counter sniper firing from the Jordanians on the Mount...
Interesting link. And nice freeper name, btw. Mencken was an impressive wordsmith.