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... Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is proving controversial, raising the ire of the left wing. While being labeled a white nationalist, he also called for the construction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
When Hegseth addressed an Arutz Sheva conference in Jerusalem at the King David Hotel in 2018, he surprised the attendees when he said that visiting the Western Wall "got me thinking about another miracle that I hope all of you don't see too far away, because 1917 was a miracle, 1948 was a miracle, 1967 was a miracle, 2017, the Declaration of Jerusalem as the capital was a miracle. And there's no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the Temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.
"I don't know how it would happen. You don't know how it would happen. But I know that it could happen."
He also hinted that the Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria would be a "critical next step."
"A step in that process, a step in every process, is a recognition that facts and activities on the ground truly matter," said Hegseth.
"That's why going and visiting Judea and Samaria and understanding that sovereignty"the very sovereignty of Israeli soil, Israeli cities, locations"is a critical next step to showing the world that this is the land for Jews and the Land of Israel," he added.
He also rejected the so-called "two-state solution" that would establish an unprecedented militarized Palestinian state inside Israel's borders that has been ethnically cleansed of Jews with its capital in an exclusively Muslim Jerusalem.
"If you walk the ground today, you understand that there is no such thing as the outcome of a two-state solution. There is one state."
The 2018 visit was Hegseth's second to Israel. In a speech to National Young Israel, which took him on a tour of Hamas tunnels found in Israel, he said that "Zionism and Americanism are the front lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today." ...
