An excerpt from the introduction of the book:
This book consists of three essays that were first published in the years 2024 and 2025, at the request of Tom Raines, editor of the quarterly New View magazine (www.newview. org.uk), following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which triggered the most intense and violent episode yet in the nearly 80-year-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The first of the three, 'Lines In The Sand What Led to the Formation of the State of Israel?', appeared in New View issue no. 110 (January-March 2024) as a stand-alone essay addressing the question: How did the State of Israel actually come about? It focuses especially on events from the 1890s to the 1940s and on the role of British and American elites in relation to those events. The second and third essays were written as a pair. The second, "Christian Zionism" Part 1', was first published in New View in issue no. 114 (January-March 2025), and the third, "Christian Zionism" Part 2', first appeared in New View, issue no. 115 (April-June 2025).
This pair of essays examines the deeper background to the phenomenon of the so-called 'Christian Zionist' move-ment, which began in Britain in the nineteenth century, although its antecedents go back further, but which rose to prominence in the twentieth century in the United States and largely accounts for the indispensable support given to the State of Israel by both parties of the US political establishment since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Without that support, amounting now to hundreds of billions of dollars since 1948, Israel could not have sur-vived. Moreover, the fearsome and brutal punishment which Israel inflicted on Gaza in the two years from Octo-ber 2023 to October 2025, which can be described as not 'an eye for an eye' but more like '100 eyes for an eye' would not have been possible without continuous US financial and military support. For its part, the US political estab-lishment would not have been able to behave as it has done in the Middle East over the past seven decades and espe-cially over the past four decades, since the end of the first Cold War in 1991, and would not have been able to sustain its support for Israel without the voting power of 'Chris-tian Zionists' in constituencies across the country who have pressured their representatives to support Israel over the years. This is why we see the great number of stand-ing ovations during speeches by visiting Israeli statesmen in the US Congress and why bills that seek to reduce US military support for Israel invariably get nowhere. What accounts for this voting power of the 'Christian Zionists'? Where did it come from? Why did it emerge?
Video Title: The Hidden Spiritual History Behind Iran, Israel & the Middle East Conflict with Terry Boardman. Source: The Spiritual Scientist Podcast. Date Published: August 3, 2026. Description:
Today we look at the spiritual background to the Iran-US-Israel conflict and the deep spiritual currents behind it.
Author, historian, speaker and translator Terry Boardman returns to explore the spiritual background to today's world situation and Rudolf Steiner's approach to the study of history.
