#christian-zionism

#christian-zionism

Even before it existed, Israel was on American minds. Colonial preachers called their new land Canaan; Herman Melville saw Americans as the peculiar, chosen people, the Israel of our time. In the Second Great Awakening of the late 18th and early 19th century, American Protestants became obsessed with the Holy Land, and it was perhaps in response that one Jewish preacher had called in as early as 1818 for Jews to establish themselves in Ottoman Syria.

Sen. Lindsey Graham stated that Israel has concluded it cannot achieve a satisfactory end to the war with Hamas without invoking severe military actions similar to those taken in Tokyo and Berlin.