Second Temple model, Jerusalem (Shutterstock)

On the morning of January 31, in the midst of the brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, a number of American religious and political leaders were meeting at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, as part of a program that began to be implemented annually starting in 2022 in this place under the name ( The National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance is implemented by two American institutions, the Family Research Council and Well Versed, which are run by a number of followers of the extreme right-wing Christian movement in the United States.

One of the most important figures who attended this program was the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who is known for his affiliation to the right-wing conservative movement. In addition to a number of members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate who are neoconservatives belonging to the Republican Party as well.

This annual gathering began recently with the rise of the right-wing movement in the United States, especially during the era of former US President Donald Trump, but what is striking about this gathering this year is that it devoted the second half of the five-hour program to the benefit of Israel, where a number of eye-catching paragraphs were presented. The program presented an unusual guest of honor, Rabbi Yitzchak (Tzachi) Mamo, an extremist rabbi who lives in the Ofra settlement in the West Bank, and is considered one of the most important officials in attempts to buy and leak real estate in Jerusalem, especially in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where Mamo is considered one of Orabi forcefully expelled the neighborhood's residents.

The religious Zionist movement in Israel is an extension of the movement of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, which the United States of America classified as a terrorist organization in 1997 during the era of the Democratic Clinton administration, which through this was trying to protect its ally Israel from this movement and its destructive effects on Israel itself.

Ironically, Mamo was presented during the program as one of those responsible for taking care of the red cows that are being prepared to carry out the religious burning and purification process that the religious Zionist movement in Israel relies on to cancel the fatwa preventing Jews from entering the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, along with his American friend Byron Stinson, an Anglican Christian. An extremist from the US state of Texas, and this person was the source of the red cows that were transported to Israel a year and a half ago.

It became clear during the program that these two individuals were directly responsible for the process of producing five red cows using genetic engineering and bringing them to Israel. In preparation for slaughtering and burning it and performing religious purification rituals that allow the religious Zionist movement to open the door to canceling the fatwa of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibiting Jews from entering the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, thus opening the door wide for tens of thousands to storm the mosque.

Over the course of 35 minutes, Rabbi Mamo presented a long argument about the measures that he and his Anglican Christian friend took in cooperation with a number of Republican officials in the United States of America, Israel, and other countries to prepare the necessary tools, materials, and needs. To carry out cleansing work and build the third temple in place of the Dome of the Rock.

The man who now holds the position of honorary consul for the state of Papua New Guinea, which is close to Indonesia, played a central role in convincing this country to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, and even opened an embassy for it in Jerusalem on September 5, 2023, that is, just one month ago. From the launch of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” and the current war on Gaza.

At that time, I did not understand the reason for the enthusiasm that Papua New Guinea had to open its embassy in Jerusalem like this without any introductions, until I listened to Mamo’s speech, which revealed that James Marape, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, is considered a strict Anglican Christian, and that members of this country’s government believe that Papua New Guinea was the source of the gold that covered the Temple of Solomon I mentioned in the Bible!

Accordingly, they signed an agreement with companies that appear to be Israeli, through which gold exploration will be carried out in Papua New Guinea, with a third of the extracted shares being allocated to the government, a third to the excavating company, and a third to be allocated to the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

In addition to this extremist rabbi, the aforementioned program hosted the next guest of honour, Knesset member Ohad Tal, who - ironically - is a member of the Knesset for the Religious Zionism Party headed by Bezalel Smotrich, and also lives in the Efrat settlement in the West Bank.

This person appeared on this program specifically to repeat all the lies that Israel has spread since the beginning of the war about rape, burning people, beheading children, and so on, which have been shown to be completely false.

A speech was also devoted to Dominique Berman, a controversial Israeli-American figure who calls for what she calls “the return of Christianity to its Jewish origins” with her husband, Rabbi Baruch Berman. This personality publicly calls for the necessity of purifying the land between the river and the sea of ​​Palestinians and making it completely Jewish.

The strange thing is that, during this program, she called on American politicians to fulfill the “divine promise” to hand over the land from the Euphrates to the Nile to the Jews, and she even blew the Jewish trumpet despite the fact that the program is considered primarily Christian.

What draws attention in this program is not just the presence of these extremist Israeli figures, all of whom follow the religious Zionist movement, in this program as guests of honor, and the door is wide open for them to present their religious vision on which they base their decisions and political movement, which is full of religious prophecies about the end of the world and the coming of Christ, and so on. Rather, such a program full of religious fanaticism is fully sponsored by the US Congress, which is currently controlled by Republicans.

The presence of figures such as Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson, who is the third man in power according to the US Constitution after the President and his Vice President, accompanied by more than twenty Republican representatives and senators in the US Congress, and their participation in prayer with a word for each one of them, gives a clear indication of the nature of The personalities who are currently at the helm of government in the United States of America and their trends.

At a time when the world sees that the Salvationist religious Zionist movement in Israel has become a great danger to the entire world as it theorizes about holy war, the end of the world, and the coming of Christ, and is drawing up the policies of the Netanyahu government over which he controls based on these religious perceptions and myths, these figures who are in number One of the most important positions that formulate American foreign policy considers the Israeli religious Zionist movement an ally in fact.

This represents an important shift in public policy for the US Republican Party, which appears to have become a gathering of religious fanatics largely from the far right.

In this regard, we should not forget that the religious Zionist movement in Israel is an extension of the movement of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, which the United States of America classified as a terrorist organization in 1997 during the era of the Democratic Clinton administration, which through this was trying to protect its ally Israel from this movement and its destructive effects on Israel. The same, three years after one of his followers, Baruch Goldstein, carried out the massacre of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

Let the Democratic Biden government come - ironically - and lift this movement from the American terrorism regulations in May 2022. Claiming that a long period of calm had passed and the followers of this movement had not resorted to violence.

In my view, the relations of a movement that - until just two years ago - was classified on terrorism lists cannot reach this degree of strength and deep alliance with the American religious neoconservative movement in just two years, as the ties between the religious neoconservative movement in the United States must The United States and the Kahanist movement - which in turn produced religious Zionism in Israel - date back to earlier periods, and were not affected by the classification of this movement on the American terrorism lists.

This gives serious indications about the transformations taking place in the Republican Party in the United States of America.

Religious fanaticism and the pursuit of redemptive prophecies that characterize the religious Zionist trend that actually rules in Israel have now, as it seems, penetrated the corridors of the US Congress, even if these redemptive prophecies have not yet been able to tighten their control over government in the United States.

But what happened in Washington at the end of last January warns that we may be on the cusp of a dangerous stage that the region may have never witnessed, and this makes it necessary for rational people - not only in our region, but in the whole world - to understand the danger of these fanatics holding the keys. Earth, and world politicians must work to curb this religious extremism that is dragging the region and the entire world into certain disaster.

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