At Slate, Steven I. Weiss examines the motivations for Christian zionism :
All of which begs the question: If they’re not doing it for a right-wing agenda, a missionary agenda, or an apocalyptic agenda, just why are Christians uniting for Israel?
It’s because they love Jews. When I went to cover 2008’s CUFI Washington Summit, the first person I met shook my hand and told me she loved me for being a Jew. It’s happened to me at least dozens of times since. Ask any cross-section of Christian Zionists why they support Israel, and most of the time the first line out of their mouths will be citing Genesis 12:3, in which God says to Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.”
The more you dig into Christian Zionism, the more you realize it’s less about Israel than it is about the Jews.
Yep. I made that same point a few week ago in a post on “Why Evangelicals Love the Jews .”
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