OPINION:
I appreciate that L. Todd Wood recognizes that the Jews are the only group in the Middle East to allow access to people of all faiths to pray in every holy place in Israel, and that President Trump is acknowledging the ancient bonds of the Jewish people and their ancestral land, Israel (“How and why Trump got it so right about Jerusalem,” Web, June 14).
However, Mr. Wood overlooks one heartbreaking exception to religious freedom in Israel: The Muslim Waqf administrators of the Temple Mount will not permit anyone who is not of the Muslim faith to pray on the centuries-old remnants of the inner courtyard of the destroyed Jewish Temple, and Israeli police arrest any Jew seen moving their lips in silent prayer or even crying in that area.
It is tragically ironic that the one group — the Jewish people — that allows all to pray anywhere their spirit takes them is not allowed to pray at their most ancient and holy site on the Temple Mount.
NANCY KARKOWSKY
Silver Spring
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