1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,250 I come from Italy, I have a political science background, 2 00:00:04,250 --> 00:00:12,530 and I my my uncertainty was about the Kosovo origins of fascism, which I interpreted as a political religion, 3 00:00:12,530 --> 00:00:20,900 relying on scholar, which is basically an oxymoron called Russian Griffin, which targeted fascism can be considered as a political religion. 4 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:27,260 So a political movement which mobilise and gather political consent in order to regenerate, 5 00:00:27,260 --> 00:00:35,060 to bring about a national renewal, came to UK and my massive Russian relation. 6 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:44,660 And it clicked that immediately on you ask Christian Zionism, which was quite important in the last past 10 eight years of passive ministration. 7 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:52,670 So is that a theo political movement? So I think we have here. 8 00:00:52,670 --> 00:00:59,420 The other the other side of the same coin, we have a religious movement made of 40 means believers, 9 00:00:59,420 --> 00:01:06,630 which aims to become political to have it, and heavy involvement in politics and is quite unprecedented acquire. 10 00:01:06,630 --> 00:01:11,450 I suspect that because we don't expect them to be Zionist to support the state of Israel. 11 00:01:11,450 --> 00:01:20,240 So a very narrow definition of of Christian Zionist can be an outpouring of the 12 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:25,760 evangelical conservative carso embedded that geographically in the Bible Belt, 13 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:31,640 which interprets and sees it the more the state of Israel as a biblical fulfilment. 14 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:37,670 And in light of that, grants Israel financial, political and religious support. 15 00:01:37,670 --> 00:01:42,140 But you can't we understand Christian Zionism unless you take into account very I will do very 16 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:48,510 briefly at actually logical framework in which is embedded is a primary Lango dispensation or ISM, 17 00:01:48,510 --> 00:01:51,920 which was conceived, as far as I know, by jonell. 18 00:01:51,920 --> 00:02:00,350 So Daddy was a Scottish clergyman. We just migrated in the U.S. at the beginning of the last century and his teachings 19 00:02:00,350 --> 00:02:04,610 were systematised and popularised about the scoffer scoffing reference Bible, 20 00:02:04,610 --> 00:02:13,700 which is that was the first couple was published in nineteen. Honour is still in publishing and they are sold millions of copies. 21 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:21,650 And the fact these are available and societies that is taken to be in a petition of the Bible is taken to be the Bible itself by Christians. 22 00:02:21,650 --> 00:02:29,460 And some believe this offers a sort of the main issues is that the history of salvation, 23 00:02:29,460 --> 00:02:35,300 the Christian oestriol salvation is divided, a failure desires, but paradise in Savan dispensations. 24 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:40,100 And we are at the end of a sixth dispensation, approaching the end of time and then the end of time. 25 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,320 According to Darbee, 26 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:52,490 a serious a set of prophetic fullfillment have to take place in order to trigger a second coming of Jesus Christ to court to get alongside Shor's. 27 00:02:52,490 --> 00:02:56,480 All the exiled Jews must be restored in the Holy Land. 28 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:03,740 The more the state of Israel, which is identified with the Asian state of Israel, must have a firm possession of all their own land. 29 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:19,870 And when we talk about Israel, what we have in mind is this configuration, which is in Genesis fifteen, eighteen, twenty one and the. 30 00:03:19,870 --> 00:03:25,820 And that a series of steps, prophetic steps, we have to be fulfilled in order to trigger a second coming. 31 00:03:25,820 --> 00:03:33,270 And I just underline the battle over my Gatherum, which is one of the main argument of our whole apocalyptic narrative, 32 00:03:33,270 --> 00:03:38,160 which I mean, you have any tank of rotation between the forces of good and the forces of evil. 33 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:48,390 And this has a current impact first, because, I mean, in a Christian Zionist that metanarrative Israel, 34 00:03:48,390 --> 00:03:58,740 the modern state of Israel is the only state that God ever established. So the possession over there of the land that is ordained by divine mandate. 35 00:03:58,740 --> 00:04:05,670 So you can't really, really understand why they're being so relevant in a passive administration. 36 00:04:05,670 --> 00:04:11,930 I mean, the point I would like to make that a Christian Zionism, a religious narrative was quite important. 37 00:04:11,930 --> 00:04:17,300 One of the main most of the peace agreement in the last past eight years. 38 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:30,360 And I can be challenged on this. I know. So I'm against theology who say very interesting and dissipated the difficulty that this syndrome, 39 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,490 in my own opinion, was first to define as far as I know by nature. 40 00:04:34,490 --> 00:04:40,050 He said that the first characteristic is that all the world must turn evil. 41 00:04:40,050 --> 00:04:43,860 So the evil must prevail in the world before the final regeneration. 42 00:04:43,860 --> 00:04:46,050 So there is a sort of consequentialist, 43 00:04:46,050 --> 00:04:52,560 a framework in which at the end the end is justified by the means and in premature an annual dispositional ism, 44 00:04:52,560 --> 00:05:00,450 which is quite different from past millennialism. The end is supposed to take place by a violent the confrontation. 45 00:05:00,450 --> 00:05:05,640 So we have violence justified in order to have salvation or to be what, biblical fulfilment. 46 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,040 And then we have a sort of scapegoat mechanism. 47 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:16,890 I suppose I quite rely on the teachings and the writings of an issue, rather, which some of you might might know. 48 00:05:16,890 --> 00:05:21,900 That order is to be established by a final purging of some value is identified 49 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:28,080 as an ultimate embodiment of evil Christian Zionist narrative that has built, 50 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:34,260 especially over the past 10 years or eight years, a sort of axis of eschatological. 51 00:05:34,260 --> 00:05:38,760 He was between Hamas, between the Palestinians, between now. 52 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:51,030 I mean, the most popular figure in Antichrist is a Ahmadinejad and the worker then with the last presidential election. 53 00:05:51,030 --> 00:05:57,510 I mean, I think a shift part of a change in paradise took place, but they are still relevant. 54 00:05:57,510 --> 00:06:04,530 So they are 40 million Christian, Zionist. Amongst that, they won under one hundred thirty million evangelicals on the population, 55 00:06:04,530 --> 00:06:12,090 a global population, a complex population will plunder 93 and the where an incredible voting bloc. 56 00:06:12,090 --> 00:06:21,090 I mean, that is a mass as written about the fact that George W. Bush won the White House twice, relying heavily on this voting group. 57 00:06:21,090 --> 00:06:25,120 They have an incredible grass roots organisation or power, a lobbying power. 58 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:33,450 CFI, which is the Christian United for Jerusalem, is a rising star Christian Zionist panorama and is very organised, very skilled. 59 00:06:33,450 --> 00:06:39,180 And, you know, they know how to talk the language of of Washington. 60 00:06:39,180 --> 00:06:45,890 And I think that's their first to the immediate predicament I wrote here. 61 00:06:45,890 --> 00:06:49,950 Maybe I mean, that the power might may be declining in mass. 62 00:06:49,950 --> 00:06:56,490 Yes. But it will remain there. I suppose they will accept whatever they can in order to undermine. 63 00:06:56,490 --> 00:07:05,610 I mean, any peace effort in the Middle East. And they have substantially links with the Likud Party and the settlers movements, 64 00:07:05,610 --> 00:07:17,640 especially even if it's necessary to draw distinction between movements, fundamentalist movements like Shamoon in temple movements or hilltop youth. 65 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:23,010 I think that they are going in the same direction because they perceive that our presence in the Middle East and in the West Bank, 66 00:07:23,010 --> 00:07:29,010 particularly as a sort of defilement and that or all the four issues, 67 00:07:29,010 --> 00:07:36,570 the key issues in the Middle East, peace processes, which are Jerusalem as an undivided capital. 68 00:07:36,570 --> 00:07:44,640 And the question of borders, question of security and question of settlements are main points in the mind of Christians. 69 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,780 And then I'd like to conclude here and leave space to my colleagues. 70 00:07:48,780 --> 00:07:53,913 Thank you very much for your attention.