Two months before the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, a plane that took off from Texas, USA, was greeted by official officials on the apron when it landed in Israel. One of the ‘completely red, flawless, unblemished, two-year-old’ heifers purchased by the Temple Institute will be sacrificed, according to Jewish belief, in a land overlooking the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Mount of Olives region of occupied East Jerusalem. The main goal of the radical Temple Institute group, which advocates the sacrifice of the red heifer, is to build the ‘Third Temple’ in place of the Dome of the Rock in the courtyard of the Masjid al-Aqsa. They believe that these red cows will be ceremonially sacrificed on the Mount of Olives to begin the rites of establishing the Third Temple, where their flesh will be burned and the area will be ‘purified’ with their blood.
THE FIRST SPARK OF THE WARS OF RELIGION
The ‘red heifer’ campaign, spearheaded by the Temple Institute founded in 1987, has the possibility of igniting a religious war that will spread throughout the Middle East.
PHOTO WITH RED COW HAS BEEN PUT IN CIRCULATION
According to the news in Türkiye Newspaper, the target of radical Jews has been covered in both Israeli and international media in recent days. In addition, a photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of the war that devastated the Gaza Strip, with a red cow created by artificial intelligence was posted on social media. Jerusalem Post, which published an article titled ‘Red Heifer, Amalek and the Reactions of the Nations’, joked that those who have not seen one of the thousands of videos and articles about the Red Heifer, also known as Para Adumah, probably live in a cave. Noting that everyone is worried about red cows, the author of the article, Mark Fish, asks: ‘What scares people so much?’ posed the question.
“MUSLIMS WILL BE DOMINATED FOREVER”
Reminding that thousands of videos were circulated on the internet with the start of the war in Gaza, Fish argued that, based on the verses in the Torah, Amalek (the arch-enemy of the Jews) was actually the Persians rather than the Germans, and wrote that Israel would fight its last war with Iran. Arguing that Muslims were very afraid of the sacrifice of the red heifer, the article claimed that Muslims would be doomed forever with the entry of Jews into the Temple Mount. In the article, it was claimed that the war currently ongoing in Gaza is entirely related to Harem al-Sharif (Temple Mount).
NEWSWEEK: THE END OF THE WORLD
American Newsweek magazine published a report with the title ‘Holy war: Red cows, Gaza and the end of the world’; He described the hill in Jerusalem as the most sacred and hotly contested place in the world. Noting that radical Jews who want to rebuild an ancient temple in Harem al-Sharif are supported by Evangelical Christians, Newsweek wrote that the development not only aroused fear among Muslims but also attracted the reaction of many Jews as well as those who want peace in the Middle East.
“EVEN THE ARCHITECTURAL PLAN IS READY”
Reminding that the red animals carried by the plane landing at Ben Gurion Airport from Texas were approved by the rabbinate, Newsweek reported that even the architectural plan of the temple to be built in place of the Dome of the Rock is ready. Newsweek also reported that Marina Sokol, whose son was killed while participating in the occupation of Gaza as a soldier, said in front of the Dome of the Rock, “The war we are waging is a war for the Temple Mount,” adding that the 36-acre sacred place is often the scene of conflicts between Jews and Muslims.