Gents,
A few things we need to remember in this thread about the time in which the POD occurs, 1967:
- US support for Israel in 1967 is not yet as automatic or substantial as US support will become in the 1970s. The USSR may be active in Egypt, but Cold War politics has not yet intruded as much as it will after the war and especially not as much as it will after the Yom Kippur War. It will only be well after the Six Day War, as the Arab nations turn to the USSR for the weapons that the West refuses to sell them, that US support for Israel will become what it will be.
In other words, the historical level of US support of Israel in 1967 will not stop the US from being in the forefront of any condemnation over the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. Furthermore, US would impose sanctions over such an act.
- Fundamental Christianity, especially the various millennial sects, are barely present in 1967. There are scattered sects and congregations who will be aware of "prophecies" regarding the Temple, but they are few in number, lack any real political power, and - most importantly - have not yet begun to employ mass media to spread their message. If plans for the Temple were announced in 2009, there would be a tidal wave of media produced by these sects. However, in 1967, the same sects are few in number and all but invisible in a mass media sense.
Again, in other words, there won't be hordes of snake jugglers in 1967 descending on Washington and speaking in tongues to their congressmen as they praise the arrival of the Temple and try to dictate the US response to such a horrific act of religious and cultural vandalism.
Bill