What October 7 Exposed — and Why the Center Cannot Hold
The alliance is cracking.
Christian Zionism, Israeli supremacy, and U.S. strategic containment of Palstine have long masked and juggled their contradictions. October 7 exposed the scaffolding — and made the contradictions impossible to ignore. This essay names them.
The alliance between Israel and the American right is fracturing. According to Tikvah Ideas — a Jewish conservative pro-Israel think tank — antisemitic tropes are re-emerging within the very coalition that has long defended Israeli supremacy and militarism. These are not fringe provocations. They are mainstream narratives: claims of Jewish dual loyalty, skepticism toward Jewish-Christian alliances, accusations that Israel manipulates U.S. foreign policy, and even Holocaust revisionism. The ideological scaffolding that once framed Israel as a moral fortress is cracking. The cost of that fracture will not be rhetorical. It will be strategic.
To understand the fracture, we must first understand the alliance.
For decades, Israel’s most reliable international ally has been the American right. Evangelical Christians, conservative media figures, and Republican lawmakers have offered unwavering support — military, diplomatic, and cultural. This alliance has been framed as theological, strategic, and moral: a bulwark against terrorism, a fulfillment of biblical prophecy, and a defense of Western civilization.
But beneath this alliance lies a contradiction too deep to ignore. The American right’s support for Israel has never been rooted in Jewish pluralism or historical accountability. It is an unholy alliance — a convergence of Christian eschatology, nationalist militarism, and geopolitical convenience. Evangelicals support Israel not to protect Jewish life, but to advance a theological narrative in which Jewish return to the Holy Land precedes Christian redemption. As Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), declared: “The coming of Jesus Christ is tied to the Jews returning to Israel.” For many evangelicals, Jewish survival is instrumental — not sacred. Their support for Israel is not a defense of Jewish dignity — it is a staging ground for Christian prophecy.
And Israel, in turn, exploits this alliance with strategic precision. (more...)
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