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By Irvine H. Anderson

Irvine Anderson's provocative argument--that fundamentalist interpretations of the Christian Bible have helped create a cultural predisposition that favors returning the Jewish humans to the "promised land"--offers a tremendous point of view on British and American international coverage towards Israel. He asserts that tales approximately provides of land to the Hebrew humans and the "Second Coming of Christ" have made it more straightforward for Zionist and pro-Israel lobbies to be powerful in either countries.

beginning with research of Armageddon theology and the Biblical passages on which those rules were dependent, Anderson indicates how they've been disseminated all through pop culture from the nineteenth century onward, via Sunday college instructing, novels, and television evangelism. He then examines the origins of the Balfour assertion, the travails of the British Mandate within the Nineteen Thirties, and Truman's selection to hurriedly realize the newly proclaimed country of Israel--emphasizing the president's Baptist historical past and intimate wisdom of the Bible. Anderson additionally discusses the belief that constructed after international conflict II that Israel was once a strategic best friend in a deadly a part of the area and he exhibits that on the time no actual countervailing strength existed. one of the voters in either nice Britain and the us, there has been little common wisdom of Islam, Arabs, or the center East and constrained figuring out of the significance of fit kinfolk with pleasant oil-producing states.

including new info to our knowing of pro-Israel organisations, Anderson illustrates the linkages that built within the final a part of the 20 th century among pro-Israel lobbies and the non secular correct. whereas acknowledging that this alliance isn't the merely cause that the yankee govt helps the go back of Jews to Palestine, he indicates that the impression of conservative teachings and ideology on coverage is and has been profound.

This arguable booklet offers a entire and persuasive dialogue of the impression of Christian Zionism within the twentieth century. it will be significant to historians, sociologists, political scientists, and others attracted to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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