Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

Reagan and Begin, Bibi and Jerry: the theopolitical alliance of the Likud party with the American Christian "right".

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | September 22, 1998 | Copyright

On 19 January 1998, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington, D.C. for what the press characterized as a critical showdown with President Clinton concerning the faltering Middle East peace process. Shortly after arriving, Netanyahu went directly to a gathering of the Christian "right" where Jerry Falwell and over 1,000 fundamentalist Christians saluted him as "the Ronald Reagan of Israel."(1)

Netanyahu's meeting with the Christian "right" prior to the important session with the President was simultaneously strategic and symbolic. For one, the…

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