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Yes the book goes pretty deep into Christian evangelical Zionism
Are there any revelations there?
For me? Not really. It reinforces a lot of what I already thought, which is that Christian zionists are pretty naive about the issue, and maybe even their own theology.
The book does try to argue that the role of the Christian zionists shouldn't be overstated. Although they can be counted on to support Israel, they aren't the ones driving the policy at all.
I was raised in their evangelical Zionism and deprogrammed myself. At first I just had questions and started asking. Was blown away by how weak and naive the responses were. Over the years I've experienced what Tucker did to that scum from Texas over and over again.
They aren't driving it. They are willful idiots
Was the zionist part of that a major emphasis?
If not Christian Zionists, then who is driving policy? Jewish donors?
Christian Zionists outnumber Jews 30 million to 6 million
He gives a few reasons for why Christian Zionists don't really drive anything.
- They don't give as much money to this particular cause.
- They tend not to have as much influence in media/academia
- Their interests in foreign policy are diffuse and not very specific
- In the end, although they can be counted on to support Israel, it's not their primary area of political concern (vs things like abortion)
In the post Dobbs world, abortion is no longer their number 1 priority
The book was written in 2006
reason 1 and 2 point to Jewish donors
Regarding media/academia, they have less influence today than 20 years ago
Make no mistake. Abortion is still a big issue with the evangelical christian movement. It's just not as big as it was. Not a wedge.
The influence is AIPAC but evangelicals support politicians that support Israel. Believe me, even if one is not anti-Israel but just opposed to war or foreign aid they are castigated. Been that way for decades and is only changing because of how far Bibi has pushed his tactics.
Regarding abortion, what is the goal now? a national ban on abortion? not going to happen
To me, for a very long time I have thought Israel (specifically some political Zionist forces) have been masterful in their exploitation of the US political system.
From their use of campaign funding and lobby work, to their encouragement of Christian evangelical Zionism.
Clearly, (at least to me) saying the Jews run America is absurd. Even saying Israel runs America is absurd. But an elite group of both Israeli and American Zionist do have a lot of sway in American politics.
The solution? I dunno but it seems to me that their strategies are starting to fail. Far too many younger people are seeing at least the immoral actions of that government for what they are. Hypocrisy.
Many are oversimplifying it as you say and there are many psyops in play. Not sure which things are real or fake but plenty are fake. It seems to be failing. Maybe the early stages of falling but failing non-the-less.