University professor Professor Jean-Pierre Filho wrote that the bidding of racist ministers in the Israeli government encourages what are known as small Messianic groups that want to build the Third Temple in the square of the current mosques in Jerusalem, and although reality has not yet exceeded imagination, the countdown for Third Temple hopefuls is now in full swing. acceleration.
Philo – in his column in Le Monde newspaper – started from the book “The Third Temple” by Yishai Sarid, to draw a picture of what is happening and what is being planned in terms of replacing the alleged temple with the existing mosques in Al-Aqsa Square, especially since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promoted two racists to ministerial portfolios. president; They are: Bezalel Smotrich to the Ministry of Finance, and Itamar Ben Gvir to National Security with authority over the future “National Guard.”
Filho reviewed the book, which is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with activists from the Messianic movement from the West Bank settlements, and whose author took the eschatological discourses of “end-times” activists literally seriously, 20 years after the assassination of Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a fanatic from These movements.
Third Temple
After narrating the history of the Holy Temple and its destruction for the first time in 586 BC by the Babylonians, then the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70, during Rome’s suppression of the Jewish uprising, the writer pointed out that the memory of these two events was linked to the Western Wall, or what is now called the “Wailing Wall.”
If in 1967 Israel preserved the Mosque Square, or “Al-Haram Al-Sharif” in Arabic, or “Temple Mount” in English, from destruction, then – according to the writer – it destroyed the Moroccan Quarter adjacent to the Western Wall, and forcibly allocated it to Jewish worship, before allowing them to enter the city. The courtyards of the Holy Mosque and perform their prayers there with police protection.
The writer pointed out the establishment of movements linked to the Temple. Such as: the Salvation Movement, the “Temple Mount Believers” group, and the Temple Institute, which is closely linked to American evangelicals, and was founded in 1992 in the Old City of Jerusalem. From time to time, it raises some problems with its attacks on the Noble Sanctuary, and continues its conspiracies to demolish it and replace the alleged temple in its place. The temple institute even brought 5 completely red cows from Texas, purifying their ashes after a ritual sacrifice, to the courtyard of the mosques in preparation for the construction of the third temple.
However, the tension in Jerusalem increased – as the writer says – with the entry of the two racist ministers into Netanyahu’s government, after they made more inflammatory statements and initiatives, as Itamar Ben Gvir visited the mosque square 3 times, in 2023, and was during two of these provocative visits, accompanied by the rabbi. The ultra-Orthodox Samson Elboim, who claims, in the name of the “Temple Mount Administration,” to have replaced the Islamic authorities.
