This will be a short post -- mainly because I will point to a longer (too long?) post from last year.
Once again there is much controversy about the Kotel, and the fights between the various movements, over the right for non-traditional prayer at our holiest site. If one did not know better, one would think that there are new developments and that the "terrible chareidim" have once again blackmailed the government into reneging on its agreements and promises, to the ultimate shame of the Netanyahu government, according to some.
Actually, however, rather than coming to the inevitable compromise that has already been made and is the only realistic way forward, extremists on both sides are determined to fight. As I wrote about a year ago (please read that detailed article), there is, and has been for a long time, an established place on the southern section of the Kotel for non-traditional prayer. No one is seriously challenging this. It is, or should be, a gift to all sides -- except the extremists.
All that happened recently was that the plan to build a more co-equal entrance way to that area was scrapped, and the status quo will remain.
If only the sensible public would realize that the Kotel is a place to pray, and that rather than fighting, everyone ought to go to the area that appeals most to them to pray, life would be much sweeter.
But no - fight we must and fight we shall.
And we wonder what is delaying the Mashiach
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