Zion Ascendant

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>How did a historically persecuted people-long vilified as outsiders heretics and scapegoats come to occupy a place of unparalleled moral and political privilege in the Western imagination?</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>Zion Ascendant</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> offers a sweeping historical account of one of the most unique and consequential alliances of our time. This book traces the astonishing journey of the Jewish people and the state of Israel from biblical times to the present revealing a story not just of diplomacy but of a profound transformation in the very identity of the West.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The book argues that Israel's special relationship with the United States and Europe is the product of one of history's most remarkable makeovers: a centuries-long process through which Jews were reimagined from despised Christ-killers into essential partners in a shared Judeo-Christian civilization. From the ashes of the Holocaust to the battlefields of the Cold War from the halls of power in Washington to the megachurches of America's heartland the book reveals the powerful confluence of guilt faith and strategy that forged an unbreakable bond.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Yet this alliance is now being tested as never before. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>Zion Ascendant</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> soberly examines the recent Israel-Hamas war and the complex international reaction it provoked highlighting the growing debates over security sovereignty and human rights that challenge the consensus of the past</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 21 1)>A masterful work of history and contemporary analysis ZION ASCENDANT provides the essential context for understanding the profound connection between Israel and the West how it was formed why it has endured and the powerful forces that are now reshaping its future.</strong></p><p></p>