Peace on G-d\u27s terms: The ideological project of Christian Zionism

This study examines the Christian Zionist movement. It identifies the motivations, composition, and objectives of the Christian Zionist movement in order to illuminate the interest group\u27s influence on U.S. foreign policy making on Israel. The movement\u27s influence results from the framing of its ideology as a political project, through which the movement is able to capitalize on a pre-existing pro-Israel opinion bias among Evangelicals, construct a community of believers from these individuals, and mobilize that community into action. This argument shows that classic realist accounts, such as that put forward in Mearsheimer and Walt\u27s work, do not account for a definition of the national interest that is not characterized in terms of realpolitick, and are therefore inappropriate when discussing Christian Zionists. The national interest in the view of Christian Zionists is framed in terms of their ideology, which realist analysis cannot incorporate