Global Post: Jeremy Gimpel, an American-born candidate running in next week’s Israeli elections, has inflamed the race after video surfaced of him asking what would happen if two mosques on Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock were blown up and replaced.
Gimpel, a candidate for the right-wing religious party Habayit Hayeudi, made the comments during a speech to a Fellowship Church gathering in Winter Springs, Florida, on Nov. 13, 2011.
His speech caught the attention of Israeli media, with the popular Channel 2 television broadcasting parts of it Friday, Haaretz reported.
“Imagine if the Golden Dome – I’m being recorded so I can’t say ‘blown up’ – but let’s say the Dome was blown up, right? And we laid the cornerstone of the Temple in Jerusalem,” he told the crowd in the video, now available on YouTube.