Tucker Carlson Unmasks Secretary of War Hegseth – Says Iran War Can Lead to Rebuilding the Temple on the Mount
In the featured video clip, Pete Hegseth speaks about the possibility of rebuilding the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during a 2018 speech [00:40].
Key Details from the Video
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Historical Milestones as “Miracles”: Hegseth framing a sequence of modern historical events involving Israel as miracles, listing 1917 (the Balfour Declaration), 1948 (Israel’s declaration of independence), 1967 (the Six-Day War), and 2017 (the U.S. declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital) [00:43].
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Rebuilding the Third Temple: He asserts that following those events, “there’s no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible” [00:58].
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Uncertainty of Implementation: He acknowledges that while he does not know how such a reestablishment would take place, he believes that “it could happen” [01:06].
The clip, shared by Breezy Politics, is introduced with commentary from Tucker Carlson reacting to Hegseth’s 2018 remarks [00:19].
Pete Hegseth addressed the re-establishment of the Third Temple during a 2018 speech in Jerusalem at a conference organized by the Arutz Sheva media group.
Key Statements
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Framing as a “Miracle”: Hegseth positioned the potential rebuilding of the temple alongside a chronological sequence of modern milestones in Israeli and Jewish history, calling each a miracle:
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1917: The Balfour Declaration
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1948: The declaration of Israeli independence
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1967: The Six-Day War
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2017: The U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
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The Core Statement: Following that timeline, Hegseth stated:
“There’s no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.”
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Uncertainty on the Process: He added that while he did not know how such an event would occur, he believed it was achievable:
“I don’t know how it would happen. You don’t know how it would happen, but I know that it could happen.”
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Call to Support: During the same address, he urged attendees to support efforts in the region, stating that “true believers in Israel and America” would stand behind them.
Context and Significance
The Temple Mount (known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif) houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, making it one of the most religiously sensitive sites in the world.
Because rebuilding a Jewish temple on that site would require altering or removing the existing Islamic holy structures, Hegseth’s 2018 remarks resurfaced in foreign policy discussions as an example of Christian Zionist perspectives on the region.
