When Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo spotting the Israeli govt inside of 11 mins. this day, the U.S. and Israel proceed on as companions in an now and then debatable alliance—an alliance, many argue, that's powerfully inspired through the Christian correct. In The Fervent Embrace, Caitlin Carenen chronicles the yankee Christian courting with Israel, tracing first mainline Protestant after which evangelical aid for Zionism.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, American liberal Protestants argued that the United States had an ethical humanitarian accountability to aid Israel. Christian anti-Semitism had helped result in the Holocaust, they declared, and so Christians needs to help in making amends. in addition, a reliable and democratic Israel might without doubt make the center East a more secure position for destiny American pursuits. Carenen argues that it was once this mainline Protestant place that laid the root for the present evangelical Protestant aid for Israel, that is established totally on theological grounds.

Drawing on formerly unexplored archival fabric from the valuable Zionist records in Israel, this quantity tells the total tale of the yankee Christian-Israel dating, bringing many of the “players”—American liberal Protestants, American Evangelicals, American Jews, and Israelis—together into one ancient narrative.