# Destroying the Dome of the Rock > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "Destroying the Dome of the Rock," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/destroying-the-dome-of-the-rock/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's agreement with Tucker Carlson that a Zionist extremist plan to demolish the Dome of the Rock and build a third temple would be the event that starts the Third World War, and his additional prediction that it would also be the beginning of the end for the Israeli government and all of its support.* - **The site:** The third holiest site in Islam - **The plan discussed:** Blowing it up to build the third temple - **Who raised it:** Tucker Carlson, increasingly outspoken on Israel - **Kiriakou's assessment of its status:** It has entered the mainstream of Israeli scholarship - **His verdict:** It would be the event that starts the Third World War - **His second prediction:** The beginning of the end of the Israeli government and its support - **The precedent cited:** Ariel Sharon's visit was enough to trigger the second intifada **Destroying the Dome of the Rock** is a scenario [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) raised unprompted on 22 October 2025, and to which he attached the largest prediction he makes anywhere in the corpus. ## How it came up Kiriakou introduced it himself, at the end of a discussion of the Gaza ceasefire. *"May I add something too? You know, Tucker Carlson has been more and more outspoken about Israel, and he's making a lot of enemies, especially on the pro-Zionist right."*[1][2] *"Lately he's been talking about both the notion of greater Israel, as well as this Zionist extremist plan to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site in Islam, and to build what would be the third temple."*[2] ## Crazy, and mainstream His assessment of the people who hold the plan and of its standing are separate judgements, and he makes both. *"Those people are crazy. They're crazy. But it's entered the mainstream of Israeli scholarship."*[2] The distinction matters to the argument. An idea can be deranged and still be respectable, and it is the respectability rather than the derangement that makes it dangerous. ## The precedent The historical anchor is a visit rather than a demolition. Ariel Sharon's appearance at the site, he notes, *"was enough to trigger the second intifada"*, which sets the scale for what removing the building entirely would do.[3] ## The prediction Kiriakou endorsed Carlson's conclusion without reservation. *"He said the other day, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, to destroy the Dome of the Rock would be the event that starts World War Three. Easy as that."*[3] He then added a second forecast that runs in the opposite direction from the first. *"And by the way, I think it would probably be the beginning of the end of the Israeli government and all of its support."*[3] That is the sense in which he says, disconcertingly, *"in a way I hope they do it"*, not because he wants the war, but because he believes the act would destroy the political position of the people who committed it, exactly as [the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-bamiyan-precedent) destroyed the Taliban's.[3][4] ## See also - [The Bamiyan Precedent](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-bamiyan-precedent) - [Israel-United States relations](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israel-united-states-relations) - [Famine in Gaza](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/gaza-famine) - [Kiriakou's mother's 2008 trip to Israel](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/kiriakou-mother-israel-trip) ## Sources 1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-10-22), at 48:56. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhvUJehZGo&t=2936s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-22-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-10-22), at 49:28. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhvUJehZGo&t=2968s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-22-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-10-22), at 50:00. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhvUJehZGo&t=3000s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-22-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-10-22), at 50:30. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhvUJehZGo&t=3030s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-22-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. 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