In order to maintain the proper holiness and availability to ALL Jews, the Kotel is the way it is. Giving in to the whims of every heterodox group and their own theological proclivities debases the Kotel- and the nation of Israel.

And while you might come and visit once in a while- maybe even say a quick prayer- or not, 99+% of those who pray there regularly are Orthodox).

Even feminist nuns would not be arrested, I think, by the state police, if they held their mass in the public space. The priests could condemn them all they wanted, but the involvement of the state and its apparatus of law enforcement might be problematic.

We're all willing to draw the line somewhere. But what gives us the right to do so, if the freedom of religious expression is an absolute, unrestricted right? Who are you to say where Judaism begins and ends? Why shouldn't any group (why limit it to Jews?) have the right of worship at the Wall in the manner that they see fit?

Life is full of such moral, religious and intellectual conflicts, and we Jews tend to solve them through consensus and compromise. In the case of WoW, far from being persecuted, they were offered a place to worship by the Robinson Arch, which is actually closer to the Holy of Holies. If all they were interested in was to express their faith in the manner they wished, it was offered to them. But let's face it, as Anat Hoffman has done, to her credit, and on more than one occasion – the point of these regular provocations is not to engage in divine service, but to pick a fight with the normative, halacha-accepting (if not observing) Jewish community, to drag that community into a confrontation it's done everything possible to avoid, and then portray themselves as victims of the oppressive majority.

No one wants to see middle-aged Jewish women being removed from the kotel (they're invariable released from custody within hours, not waterboarded or sent to a Siberian gulag, mind you). But that's precisely why a small group of these women continue putting themselves in that situation, to generate publicity and manipulate public sympathy in order to cover up their extremist agenda, in which compromise with and respect for the overwhelming majority of the Jewish people is not a high priority.

To those comparing the actions of Israeli police to the Soviet KGB, the correct analogy would be if Chassidic Jews took over the Kremlin in 1950 and demanded that Stalin and the entire Soviet government either vacate the premises from 8am-10am each morning, or else conduct their business to the sound of a Torah reading. Stalin would then try to reach a compromise whereby only half the Kremlin could be used for Jewish prayer services between the hours of 8-10am, which the Jews would reject. Then, as these Jews were being escorted from the Kremlin, they would scream "oppression, we demand our freedom of worship".