America's Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant Politics

This study examines the role of the Six-Day War in American Protestant politics and culture. The author argues that American foreign policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, culminating in the Trump Administration’s 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and the domestic Evangelical communities who supported it, has a direct correlation with the long-term consequences of the 1967 Six-Day War.

For most of America’s history, biblical literalists, or Evangelicals, dominated the rel...