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Pentagon Chief Endorses Building New Temple

I missed this when the news first hit in November, but the Times of Israel published a section of a speech by Pete Hegseth, now the Secretary of Defense for the United States, in which he suggested that a new Temple could be re-established on the Temple Mount in Israel.

He made the original remarks in 2018 at a conference in Jerusalem:

“There’s no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible,” Hegseth said.

“I don’t know how it would happen. You don’t know how it would happen, but I know that it could happen,” he added.

He also supported the idea of annexing Israeli settlements to apply Israel’s sovereignty to the West Bank: