Transcript [00:00] All right, I can't believe I'm going to [00:01] do this, but I am. Tucker Carlson has [00:03] been mouththing off again. This time, [00:05] he's got a bee in his bonnet over the [00:07] fact that there are Israeli soldiers [00:09] who've been fighting in this war wearing [00:11] patches on their uniforms that have a [00:14] sketch of the Third Temple, the the [00:17] temple that Jews all yearn for at some [00:20] point in the future. So, here's Tucker, [00:22] and then I've got a few things to say [00:24] about what he has to say. [00:29] West Side. Here's an IDF soldier, [00:31] apparently an American by his accent, [00:33] describing why he's at war. Watch this. [00:35] >> They call this operation, [00:37] the Swords of Iron. [00:41] But what are we really fighting for? [00:44] We're fighting for the right of the [00:46] Jewish people [00:48] to exist, be Jewish, practice the [00:51] religion, and be free. [00:55] And one day our true leader will come [00:57] and we'll be united as a whole Jewish [01:00] nation. [01:01] So we can rebuild the beta mdashdash. [01:07] Probably mispronouncing it. That's the [01:09] Hebrew term for the temple, the third [01:10] temple. We are doing this so we can [01:12] rebuild the temple. Now you'll notice [01:14] he's pulling off patches on Velcro on [01:16] his IDF uniform. These are not civilian [01:18] clothes. This is the uniform of the [01:20] government of Israel, of its military. [01:22] and he has patches on that uniform, one [01:25] of which is a symbol of the temple, [01:28] [snorts] the third temple. So, it just [01:30] couldn't be clear. Why are we doing [01:31] this? To rebuild the third temple. Now, [01:34] if you think we're just cherrypicking [01:36] this off the internet, one guy wearing [01:39] an unauthorized temple patch paid for, [01:41] by the way, a uniform paid by us, [01:43] armaments paid for by us, the US [01:46] taxpayer pays for all this stuff. One [01:48] way or another, the US taxpayer pays for [01:50] the military of Israel. Boy, does it. If [01:54] you think we're being unfair and just [01:56] like found one guy, well, here's a bunch [01:58] of guys. It took us about 2 minutes on [02:00] the internet to find this today. Here [02:02] are all here is a selection of IDF [02:04] soldiers. Let's put it on the screen. [02:06] There you go. And all of them have the [02:08] same patch. Look for me. Look carefully [02:10] at that. What is that? That's the [02:11] temple. [02:13] That is the third temple. [02:16] All right. That was that's the first [02:17] clip. And then Tucker went ahead and he [02:20] played a clip of uh of crackpot Rabbi [02:25] Ysef Mizrai, who has often been referred [02:27] to as the anti-semite's favorite rabbi [02:29] because of the outrageous things that he [02:31] says. He's a fringe character in the [02:33] Jewish community. Uh most clear-thinking [02:35] Jews don't really pay much attention to [02:37] him, but Tucker used Yoseph Mizrai. Have [02:39] a look at this. Here's a particularly [02:41] candid and honestly kind of articulate [02:45] clip from a couple of years ago. This is [02:47] from August of 2024 from an Israeli [02:49] rabbi, Joseph Misra, [02:53] describing how Israel should take [02:56] advantage of a then ongoing conflict [02:58] with Iran, much less intense than the [03:00] current conflict we're seeing with Iran, [03:02] to destroy [03:04] the Dome of the Rock and Ala. Watch [03:06] this. If it was up to me, the last time [03:10] when they shot hundreds of missiles, I [03:12] would pretend that one missile came from [03:14] Iran and shoot it down. [03:17] You know, then all the Arabs will go [03:20] against Iran. It will be the end of the [03:21] problems. [03:23] >> You make them fight with each other. [03:25] This bunch of lunatics. [03:28] Never too late. You deal with a bunch of [03:30] cowards. [03:33] shoot it down into the Dome of the Rock [03:36] in Ala. Destroy what's on what the [03:40] Israelis call the Temple Mount on the [03:42] foundation stone. Destroy it and blame [03:45] the Iranians. [03:50] All right. So, that's Tucker Carlson not [03:53] too happy about uh about the the fact [03:57] that Israeli soldiers actually care [04:00] about Harabay. care about the Temple [04:03] Mount. So, he's going off on this. Now, [04:06] before I get into the Temple Mount [04:07] issue, let me just point out that [04:10] um that that comment Tucker made about [04:14] these the Americans paying for the [04:17] Israeli army and oh my gosh, the you [04:18] know, we pay for all that and and oh [04:20] boy, you know, the Americans pay for the [04:22] Israeli army. Let's make something very [04:24] clear. [04:26] The US military aid to Israel, the aid [04:29] that Israel gets from the United States [04:31] is equivalent to approximately 10% of [04:35] Israel's military budget. And that was [04:37] before the October 7th war broke out. I [04:40] haven't seen the numbers since then, but [04:42] Israel has spent a lot more money on [04:44] defense ever since then and has not [04:46] ramped up the American aid to Israel. So [04:49] that aid is now probably a little under [04:51] 10%. I don't know what it is right now, [04:53] but at most it's about 10% of Israel's [04:56] military budget. Never mind the fact [04:58] that Tucker has made comments in the [04:59] past anytime Israelis do anything saying [05:01] that we pay for Israel as though it's a [05:04] substantial percentage of our budget. [05:07] The aid to Israel as of 2024 was about [05:11] 2% of Israel's national budget. It was [05:14] less than 1% of our GDP. So spare me the [05:17] America, you know, we're paying for all [05:19] of that, which is what you hear from the [05:20] Tucker Carlson wing uh of of American [05:24] politics all the time. Okay, it's just [05:26] not true. Now, on to the issue of the [05:28] Temple Mount. Okay, let's respond to [05:29] this directly. [05:31] Um, [05:33] yes, the Temple Mount matters to Jews. [05:36] Okay, I I want to talk about it [05:37] honestly. Okay, no obfiscation here. The [05:40] Temple Mounts a lot to Jews, okay? Not [05:42] because it's politics, not because it's [05:44] a symbol, but it's historical, it's [05:47] spiritual, it's national. The Temple [05:49] Mount is the holiest place in Judaism. [05:53] The first temple was built there by King [05:55] Solomon nearly 3,000 years ago. The [05:57] second temple stood there until the [05:59] Romans destroyed it in the year 70. For [06:03] centuries, that mountain was the center [06:06] of Jewish religious life. It was where [06:09] Jews made pilgrimage. It was where [06:10] sacrifices were brought. It is where the [06:12] Holy of Holies stood. It's the place [06:14] that represented the covenant between [06:17] the Jewish people and God. And when the [06:20] temple was destroyed, Jews did not [06:22] forget it. For 2,000 years of exile, [06:25] Jews prayed towards that exact spot. [06:28] Every synagogue faces Jerusalem. Three [06:30] times a day, Jews pray for the [06:32] rebuilding of Jerusalem and the [06:34] restoration of the temple. Every [06:38] Passover, we say next year in Jerusalem, [06:40] and we mean the temple. Every Jewish [06:43] wedding ends, every wedding ceremony [06:45] ends with a glass being broken in memory [06:48] of the temple's destruction. Okay? The [06:52] temple's very important. And we've been [06:54] doing these things continuously. Yes, I [06:57] know that Tucker doesn't believe that [06:58] Jewish history has been continuous, but [07:00] it's a matter of historical record that [07:03] this has been continuous, an unbroken [07:05] chain of Jewish communities with a clear [07:08] record going all the way back to temple [07:11] times, mourning the destruction of the [07:13] temple in Jerusalem and yearning for it [07:15] to be rebuilt. So when people see Jewish [07:18] soldiers wearing a symbol of the temple [07:21] and act shocked, what they're really [07:23] revealing is that they simply don't know [07:25] anything about Judaism. The longing for [07:29] the temple is not a fringe extremist [07:31] idea. That Rabbi Misrai talking about [07:34] blowing it up, he's a fringe extremist. [07:36] He's a nut job. The vast majority of [07:38] Jews have either never heard of him or [07:40] think he's nuts. Okay, he has his [07:42] followers. That's true. But he's a [07:45] fringe character. Of course, Tucker dug [07:47] him up because he serves his purposes. [07:49] The temple is woven into Jewish history, [07:52] Jewish prayer, Jewish identity. But [07:54] here's the part that Tucker Carlson and [07:56] a lot of mainstream Western commentators [07:59] completely miss. [08:01] This is critical. The Temple Mount is [08:03] not only central to Jewish identity, but [08:07] it's also central to the ideology of the [08:10] people that Israel is fighting, the [08:13] jihadists. Hamas has a name for the war [08:16] that they started on October 7th. You [08:18] heard the name that Israel calls it. [08:20] Israel calls it swords of iron. Uh [08:22] there's a couple different names that [08:23] people have thrown out there. Prime [08:24] Minister Netanyahu has a different name [08:26] for the war. Doesn't matter. But kamas [08:28] has a name for the war that they started [08:31] on October 7th. Most most westerners [08:33] don't know that. You know what they call [08:35] it? They call it operation [08:39] alaka flood. Huh? Yeah. They didn't call [08:43] it operation gaza freedom. They didn't [08:46] call it operation Palestinian liberation [08:49] or operation two-state solution. They [08:51] called it operation al axa flood. Al axa [08:55] is the Muslim name is the name of the [08:59] mosque that was built on the temple [09:00] mount. Okay. The worst massacre of Jews [09:03] since the Holocaust that happened right [09:05] around the Gaza Strip, which is more [09:07] than an hour's drive, close to two hours [09:10] drive from Jerusalem. It's nowhere near [09:12] Jerusalem. [09:13] But the name that kamas gave that [09:16] slaughter and rape and kidnapping of [09:18] children and elderly civilians, they [09:20] named it after the mosque that they [09:22] built on the temple mount. [09:25] Kamas itself [09:28] said that the attack was meant to rally [09:30] the Muslim world around the claim that [09:32] the Jews were threatening the [09:34] Alakamosque. [09:36] In other words, Kamas framed the entire [09:38] war as a battle over the Temple Mount. [09:41] Okay, that's not my interpretation. [09:43] That's their words. That means something [09:45] very important. This war is not about [09:48] Gaza. It's not about borders. It's not [09:51] about a two-state solution. It's not [09:53] about settlements. [09:55] It's not even about politics for Hamas [09:57] and its supporters. This war is a [10:00] religious war over Jerusalem and the [10:04] Temple Mount. And if you want to [10:06] understand how deeply religious this [10:08] ideology is and how much it informs [10:10] [clears throat] Kamas's behavior and [10:13] policy, all you have to do is look at [10:15] the Kamas charter, the founding charter [10:19] of Hamas when they created the [10:20] organization in the early 1980s. The [10:24] charter quotes a famous hadith. Hadith [10:26] is a is a religious text. It's not the [10:29] Quran, but it's this these additional [10:31] texts that are all about the life of [10:33] Muhammad. So it quotes a famous hadith [10:36] that says [10:38] that [10:40] it says the following. It says as the [10:42] prophet Muhammad says may the prayer of [10:45] Allah and his blessing of peace be upon [10:47] him quote this is Muhammad speaking now [10:50] in the hadith the time meaning judgment [10:53] day will not come until Muslims fight [10:56] the Jews and kill them and until the Jew [11:00] hides behind the rocks and trees and the [11:03] rocks and trees will say oh Muslim oh [11:06] servant of Allah there is a Jew hiding [11:09] behind me come and kill him. Okay, [11:13] that's what it says in the kamas charter [11:15] because the the kamas charter explicitly [11:19] lays out that the goal is genocide of [11:22] the Jewish people. That's the passage in [11:24] the charter this is taken from. Okay, [11:26] that's the charter of an organization [11:28] kamas that Tucker calls a political [11:30] organization [11:32] founded in the 1980s. This isn't from an [11:34] ancient text. [11:36] Okay, this is not a territorial dispute. [11:38] This is not about settlements, not about [11:40] borders. It's about genocide. [11:43] It's a worldview in which killing Jews [11:46] is a religious duty. [11:50] So when Israeli soldiers wear a symbol [11:52] of the temple while fighting kamas, it's [11:55] not because they're secretly planning to [11:57] bulldo mosques tomorrow morning. [12:00] It's because they understand something [12:02] that Westerners don't see. that this war [12:06] is about whether the Jewish people will [12:08] once again be driven from our homeland [12:11] or whether we will finally live there in [12:14] sovereignty and security in our historic [12:16] homeland. And there's another historical [12:19] reality that's almost never discussed in [12:21] the West. Throughout history, [12:23] Islamic conquerors often built mosques [12:27] on top of holy sites of other religions. [12:29] Okay? Churches were converted into [12:31] mosques. ancient temples of other faiths [12:34] were appropriated and destroyed or [12:36] rebranded and they build mosques on the [12:38] sites and the same thing happened in [12:41] Jerusalem. Okay, the Islamic structures [12:43] on the temple mount, the Dome of the [12:44] Rock and the Al Axa mosque were built [12:47] centuries after the Jewish temple was [12:49] destroyed on the very site where the [12:51] temple stood because the temple stood [12:53] there. In other words, the Muslim claim [12:56] to the site where Tucker says it's a [12:58] Muslim holy site. The Muslim claim to [13:00] the site was built on top of an earlier [13:04] Jewish holy place. Okay? You see the [13:06] same phenomenon in Hebron at the cave of [13:08] the patriarchs, the burial place of [13:11] Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, [13:13] and Leia. Okay? It's one of the holiest [13:15] places in Judaism. And yet today, it's [13:18] described internationally as a Muslim [13:20] shrine. And when Muslims ruled here, [13:24] they made it illegal for Jews to go [13:26] inside and pray. You know why? Because [13:29] Islamic rulers built mosques over [13:32] earlier Jewish holy sites and declared [13:35] them Islamic sites. They did the same [13:38] thing to Christianity. They do this [13:40] because the goal of Islam is conquest. [13:42] And that's how you show that you've that [13:44] you are conquerors. Okay? That's why [13:47] they destroy every remnant of of [13:49] Christianity or Judaism wherever they [13:51] can find it. And they and they put an [13:53] Islamic shrine in the place. So when [13:56] people say that the Temple Mount is [13:58] Islam's holy site, like Tucker says, [14:01] they're ignoring what is essential about [14:04] the Temple Mount, okay? It was the [14:06] center, and the only way it became [14:08] important to anybody is that it was the [14:10] center of Jewish worship more than a [14:12] thousand years before Islam even [14:14] existed. [14:16] Now, let me be clear about something. [14:18] The immediate objective of Israel's war [14:20] in Gaza is not to rebuild the temple. [14:24] Okay? The objective is to destroy Hamas, [14:27] an organization that, like I just showed [14:29] you, openly calls for the extermination [14:33] of all Jews. But the deeper issue here [14:37] is something that that Tucker is [14:41] obfiscating and obscuring. [14:43] The people of Israel is fighting against [14:47] a group that [14:49] turned the Temple Mount into their own [14:52] symbol of their war against the Jews. [14:54] Right? They called the war the Al Axa [14:57] flood. They named the massacre after it. [15:01] They preach about it. In other words, [15:02] they declare war on Israel. They [15:04] massacre, rape, pillage, and blunder. [15:06] They they name it after the Temple [15:08] Mount. Okay? They preach about it. They [15:12] try to mobilize the Muslim world around [15:14] that point [15:16] and and Israeli soldiers are supposed to [15:18] be criticized because they get the [15:21] message and put the temple the Jewish [15:24] temple on their on a patch on their [15:25] uniforms. [15:29] You know, in a recent in that [15:31] conversation recently with Mike Huckabe, [15:34] Tucker even [15:37] he went into this whole thing of [15:38] questioning the authenticity of today's [15:40] Jews, right? He suggested that Jews [15:42] living in Israel today are are not [15:44] really the descendants of the ancient [15:46] Israelites. I made a video about that on [15:48] my channel a few weeks ago. Maybe you [15:50] saw it. [15:52] But Tucker was questioning the [15:54] legitimacy of Jewish identity today. [15:55] Completely ahistorical. He doesn't know [15:57] what anything. He doesn't know what he's [15:58] talking about. You can go watch my video [16:00] to see. [16:02] But think about that. If you deny that [16:05] the Jews today are the same people who [16:09] built the temple that stood on the [16:11] Temple Mount, [16:14] then you can deny that the temple [16:17] was really ours. And you can just say, [16:19] "Well, there are no Jews anymore, and [16:21] therefore this mosque has been there a [16:24] while, so I guess it's a Muslim holy [16:26] site." Now, if you can deny that, you [16:29] can deny our entire historical claim to [16:31] the land of Israel. Right now, this [16:33] argument is not new at all. Okay? It's [16:35] the same. This is a narrative that's [16:37] been pushed for decades by the [16:39] Palestinian propaganda machine and [16:41] Islamists like Hamas. They claim that [16:44] Jews are foreign imposters and have no [16:46] real connection to the land. They even [16:47] claim that there was never a temple on [16:49] the Temple Mount, which would be a [16:50] problem for Christianity, [16:52] actually. [16:54] So when Tucker mocks Jewish Jewish [16:56] soldiers or criticizes them for [16:59] remembering the temple and pointing out [17:01] that that's what we're fighting about, [17:02] he's not just criticizing Israeli [17:04] policy. Remember what he said to [17:05] Huckabe. He's repeating a story that is [17:08] designed to erase Jewish identity, to [17:12] erase Jewish history. [17:14] Right? So Tucker's narrative ser serves [17:18] Tucker's narrative serves the same goal [17:23] as the goal of those who called their [17:27] attack on Israel the Al Act flood. They [17:30] understand that if they acknowledge that [17:33] the Temple Mount is of the Jewish people [17:35] and the Jewish people in the land of [17:36] Israel are the Jews, then we have a [17:38] claim to the land and and then a temple [17:40] stood there. But Islam is about [17:42] conquest. It's about erasing [17:45] history, especially biblical history. So [17:48] the people who slaughtered Jews while [17:50] invoking a prophecy about killing every [17:53] Jew, hiding behind rocks and trees in [17:56] their in their charter, this is their [17:58] this is their belief system. This is an [18:01] ideology that is not only wanting to [18:04] kill Jews, it wants to erase Judaism and [18:06] the Jewish people completely. And the [18:09] Jewish people, sorry, are not going to [18:11] let that happen. The temple stood on [18:14] that mountain. Tucker calls himself a [18:16] Christian. Hello, Christian. The temple [18:19] stood on that mountain. The people [18:20] you're defending deny that and fought [18:23] against Christians for centuries to tr [18:26] to to take it away from them during this [18:29] exile. Wonder whose side Tucker would [18:31] have been on then. [18:33] The temple stood on that mountain [18:35] centuries before Islam even existed. and [18:38] the Jewish people have never forgotten [18:39] it. Not in exile, not living under other [18:41] empires, and certainly not now. [18:46] Anyway, thanks so much for watching. [18:48] This is just this whole thing is so it's [18:50] so insane. [18:52] But of course, we yearn for the [18:53] rebuilding of the temple. This and this [18:54] really speaks to let me just add another [18:57] point. This speaks to the whole the [18:59] whole question of whether [19:03] Western civilization, what people call [19:04] Judeo-Christian, I prefer the term [19:06] biblical because that's really what Jews [19:07] and Christians share. What biblically [19:09] based Western civilization is going to [19:12] do about the fact that Islam is trying [19:13] to erase it and trying to take it over. [19:16] So what a bunch of Muslims take over the [19:18] Temple Mount, build a mosque there, [19:20] declare it an Islamic holy place. So [19:23] then forever after we, the Jews, are [19:25] supposed to accept that. Why should we [19:28] accept that? And no, we're not about to [19:31] blow up the mosque on the Temple Mount. [19:32] We're very patient. We waited a long [19:34] time to come out of exile and get our [19:36] independence back. And eventually, we [19:38] will rebuild the temple, [19:41] but we don't have nothing to apologize [19:43] for for Israeli soldiers yearning for [19:47] the Messiah to come and for the temple [19:49] to be rebuilt.
