I come from Italy, I have a political science background,
and I my my uncertainty was about the Kosovo origins of fascism, which I interpreted as a political religion,
relying on scholar, which is basically an oxymoron called Russian Griffin, which targeted fascism can be considered as a political religion.
So a political movement which mobilise and gather political consent in order to regenerate,
to bring about a national renewal, came to UK and my massive Russian relation.
And it clicked that immediately on you ask Christian Zionism, which was quite important in the last past 10 eight years of passive ministration.
So is that a theo political movement? So I think we have here.
The other the other side of the same coin, we have a religious movement made of 40 means believers,
which aims to become political to have it, and heavy involvement in politics and is quite unprecedented acquire.
I suspect that because we don't expect them to be Zionist to support the state of Israel.
So a very narrow definition of of Christian Zionist can be an outpouring of the
evangelical conservative carso embedded that geographically in the Bible Belt,
which interprets and sees it the more the state of Israel as a biblical fulfilment.
And in light of that, grants Israel financial, political and religious support.
But you can't we understand Christian Zionism unless you take into account very I will do very
briefly at actually logical framework in which is embedded is a primary Lango dispensation or ISM,
which was conceived, as far as I know, by jonell.
So Daddy was a Scottish clergyman. We just migrated in the U.S. at the beginning of the last century and his teachings
were systematised and popularised about the scoffer scoffing reference Bible,
which is that was the first couple was published in nineteen. Honour is still in publishing and they are sold millions of copies.
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.
And some believe this offers a sort of the main issues is that the history of salvation,
the Christian oestriol salvation is divided, a failure desires, but paradise in Savan dispensations.
And we are at the end of a sixth dispensation, approaching the end of time and then the end of time.
According to Darbee,
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.
All the exiled Jews must be restored in the Holy Land.
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.
And when we talk about Israel, what we have in mind is this configuration, which is in Genesis fifteen, eighteen, twenty one and the.
And that a series of steps, prophetic steps, we have to be fulfilled in order to trigger a second coming.
And I just underline the battle over my Gatherum, which is one of the main argument of our whole apocalyptic narrative,
which I mean, you have any tank of rotation between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
And this has a current impact first, because, I mean, in a Christian Zionist that metanarrative Israel,
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.
So you can't really, really understand why they're being so relevant in a passive administration.
I mean, the point I would like to make that a Christian Zionism, a religious narrative was quite important.
One of the main most of the peace agreement in the last past eight years.
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,
in my own opinion, was first to define as far as I know by nature.
He said that the first characteristic is that all the world must turn evil.
So the evil must prevail in the world before the final regeneration.
So there is a sort of consequentialist,
a framework in which at the end the end is justified by the means and in premature an annual dispositional ism,
which is quite different from past millennialism. The end is supposed to take place by a violent the confrontation.
So we have violence justified in order to have salvation or to be what, biblical fulfilment.
And then we have a sort of scapegoat mechanism.
I suppose I quite rely on the teachings and the writings of an issue, rather, which some of you might might know.
That order is to be established by a final purging of some value is identified
as an ultimate embodiment of evil Christian Zionist narrative that has built,
especially over the past 10 years or eight years, a sort of axis of eschatological.
He was between Hamas, between the Palestinians, between now.
I mean, the most popular figure in Antichrist is a Ahmadinejad and the worker then with the last presidential election.
I mean, I think a shift part of a change in paradise took place, but they are still relevant.
So they are 40 million Christian, Zionist. Amongst that, they won under one hundred thirty million evangelicals on the population,
a global population, a complex population will plunder 93 and the where an incredible voting bloc.
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.
They have an incredible grass roots organisation or power, a lobbying power.
CFI, which is the Christian United for Jerusalem, is a rising star Christian Zionist panorama and is very organised, very skilled.
And, you know, they know how to talk the language of of Washington.
And I think that's their first to the immediate predicament I wrote here.
Maybe I mean, that the power might may be declining in mass.
Yes. But it will remain there. I suppose they will accept whatever they can in order to undermine.
I mean, any peace effort in the Middle East. And they have substantially links with the Likud Party and the settlers movements,
especially even if it's necessary to draw distinction between movements, fundamentalist movements like Shamoon in temple movements or hilltop youth.
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,
particularly as a sort of defilement and that or all the four issues,
the key issues in the Middle East, peace processes, which are Jerusalem as an undivided capital.
And the question of borders, question of security and question of settlements are main points in the mind of Christians.
And then I'd like to conclude here and leave space to my colleagues.
Thank you very much for your attention.