Why Israel Holds So Much Influence over the United States

“…In olden days, Israel was a physical designation meaning the descendants of Jacob, and that today Israel is a spiritual designation meaning believers in Jesus, whether they are descended from Jacob or not”. – Zion’s Christian Soldiers?

On February 28, 2026, President Trump foolishly restarted a war with Iran, just 8 months following the 12-day war in 2025.  Despite claims that the US had annihilated Iran’s nuclear facilities, a new round of bombing was needed.  One of their first stops was an Iranian girls' school, where American forces murdered hundreds of tween girls in a sick attempt to make America safe again. 

A lack of support for the war enraged the sensibilities of the Israel Firsters, who, like the BLM brigade that came before, have resorted to name-calling anyone who doesn’t agree with them, using the scary “A” word (anti-semite), to browbeat them into submission. 

This tactic is unsurprising, considering the enactment of the 2025 Antisemitism Awareness Act, which conflates criticism of the secular government of Israel with hatred toward the Jews.  Its purpose was to give the Department of Education the ability to treat disapproval of Israel’s genocidal behavior in Gaza as antisemitism.  A transparently dubious measure.

In Stephen Sizer’s 2007 book, “Zion Christian Soldiers?”, Sizer, an Anglican vicar, details the conflict between Biblical Israel and the Christian church that led to the birth of the Christian Zionist movement.  Using Biblical texts, the vicar shows how the ancient term Israel was misrepresented to include the secular nation state of Israel, leading to a foreign policy belief that Israel is untouchable.

It began with the Old Testament Covenant given to Abraham at Mount Sinai, a personal promise to Abraham and his descendants – the 12 tribes of Israel.  This covenant was conditional, with stipulations that Israel was unable to maintain.

The secular nation of Israel, formed in 1948, was created when a Zionist movement called for a homeland for displaced Jews following their expulsion from many European countries, due not to their religion, but to their meritorious character. 

Modern Christian Zionism was born of the nation state of Israel, by Christians who viewed the return of Jews to the Holy Land as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.  This new Evangelical dogma has since sought to influence Western foreign policy, especially in the United States.  Their theological belief, called dispensationalism, asserts the end-times restoration of Israel, leading to the second coming of Christ.  It is a contemporary political distortion that supports American interventionism in the Middle East to the benefit of Israel.  Their goals include building the Third Temple to reestablish animal sacrifices to lure Christ into returning to earth.  But as the bible reveals, Christ became the temple when he atoned for our sins at Calvary, fulfilling the Old Testament Covenant to Abraham.  Thus, no new temple is needed. 

To counter this discredited philosophy is the Covenant Theory of one chosen people.  Israel’s rejection of Christ was a prelude to the Old Covenant’s final destruction.  While the temple was at the center of this original covenant, it became obsolete upon Jesus’s crucifixion.  In the end, Jews and Gentiles alike, those who choose Christ, are the inheritors of the promise made to Abraham.  It was the church, therefore, that superseded Israel as the people of God, as revealed in the Gospels, because it was Jesus who fulfilled the promise made to Abraham. 

Biblical Israel today is not the nation-state in the Middle East, but the international fellowship of Believers in Christ.  It is a spiritual designation for those who came to Christ, not by birth, but by rebirth.  As Galatians 3:29 confirms: "If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise”.  As such, the Jews do not have a separate or unique destiny.  When they return to Christ, they, too, will be the new Israel.  Jews and Gentiles alike, by faith, and not by lineage.    

The Genesis 12:3 verse says, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you”.  This misunderstood verse continues to be foolishly tied to the modern secular state of Israel, and not the Biblical promises made to Abraham.