Christian Zionism And Its Role in the Emergence of the Zionist Entity

Abstract

The study examines the influence of the religious factor on the American bias toward the Jews and Israel, thus indicating the inadequacy of this bias towards the influence of the Jews, or the colonial ambitions in the Arab region, and trying to focus on the religious factor. To illustrate the importance and centrality of this factor, the study solidified the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, and explained how the mainstream religious reform movement and Protestant doctrine in America gave a completely new view of the Jews that reflected positively on their past and future, where the religious teachings of the Old Testament played a central role in shaping the thought and culture of America's early immigrants. It became an early belief among the Americans that all prophecies in the Old Testament, including the return of the Jews to Palestine is a religious duty, three centuries before the emergence of the Zionist movement three centuries.

The research highlights the role of religion in American life in ancient and modern times, and its impact on the formulation of American thought and culture, which has been reflected in American attitudes toward many issues, especially Jews and Israel. The Zionist project was a US project, in all its details, aimed at achieving religious visions and prophecies. This is very clear in the American people's sympathy with and political leaders' adoption of the Jews, since the establishment of the Republic in 1776, to the present time.