Hristiyan Siyonizm ve Trump'ın İsrail Politikası Üzerindeki Etkisi

Year 2024, Volume: 16 Issue: 2, 231 - 264, 09.07.2025

Yasin Mandacı

https://doi.org/10.47932/ortetut.1696777

Abstract

Donald Trump'ın 2016 yılında ABD'de ilk kez iktidara gelmesinin ardından Evanjelistlerin güçlerinin zirvesine ulaştığı ve İsrail konusunda dış politika yapım sürecinde belirleyici oldukları algısı oluşmuştur. Bu nedenle çalışmalar ABD'nin İsrail'e olan desteğinin yoğunlaşmasını bu dini inanca ve gruba bağlamıştır. Ancak bu çalışma, Evanjelist grupların çok büyük olduğunu tespit ederek, bir alt grup olan Hıristiyan Siyonistlerin baskı grubu olarak nitelendirilebileceğini vurgulamakta ve bu grubun etkisine odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel iddiası, bu grup ile ilk Trump yönetimi arasında güçlü bir etkileşim olmasına rağmen, bu grubun İsrail politikasını yönlendirme gücünden söz etmenin mümkün olmadığıdır. Bu doğrultuda Evanjelizmden Hristiyan Siyonizm'e uzanan dini süreç ve siyasallaşma süreci analiz edilerek kavram kargaşası analitik bir yaklaşımla giderilecek, ardından Hristiyan Siyonist grup ve fikirlerin Trump dönemindeki konumunun önemi vurgulanacaktır.

Keywords

Hristiyan Siyonizmi , Evanjelizm , İsrail , Trump

الصهيونية المسيحية وتأثيرها على سياسة ترامب تجاه إسرائيل

Abstract

بعد وصول دونالد ترامب إلى السلطة في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في عام 2016 في ولايته الأولى، كان يُنظر إلى الإنجيليين على أنهم وصلوا إلى ذروة قوتهم وأنهم أصبحوا حاسمين في عملية صنع السياسة الخارجية بشأن إسرائيل. ولذلك، عزت الدراسات الدعم الأمريكي المكثف لإسرائيل إلى هذا المعتقد الديني والجماعة الدينية. غير أن هذه الدراسة، من خلال تحديدها أن المجموعات الإنجيلية كبيرة جدًا، تؤكد أن هناك مجموعة فرعية هي الصهاينة المسيحيون يمكن وصفها بأنها مجموعة ضغط، وتركز على تأثير هذه المجموعة. الادعاء الرئيسي للدراسة هو أنه على الرغم من وجود تفاعل قوي بين هذه المجموعة وإدارة ترامب الأولى، إلا أنه لا يمكن الحديث عن قوة هذه المجموعة في توجيه السياسة الإسرائيلية. وفي هذا الصدد، سيتم تحليل العملية الدينية وعملية التسييس من الإنجيلية إلى الصهيونية المسيحية وإزالة الالتباس المفاهيمي بمنهج تحليلي، ومن ثم التأكيد على أهمية مكانة الجماعات والأفكار الصهيونية المسيحية في عهد ترامب.

Keywords

الصهيونية المسيحية , التبشير إسرائيل , ترامب

Christian Zionism and Its Influence on Trump’s Israel Policy

Abstract

After Donald Trump came to power in the USA in 2016 for his first term, the Evangelists were perceived to have reached the peak of their power and to be decisive in the foreign policy-making process on Israel. Therefore, studies have attributed the intensified US support for Israel to this religious belief and group. However, this study, by determining that the Evangelist groups are very large, emphasizes that a sub-group, the Christian Zionists, can be characterized as a pressure group and focuses on the influence of this group. The main claim of the study is that although there is a strong interaction between this group and the first Trump administration, it is not possible to talk about the power of this group to direct Israel policy. In this respect, the religious process and the politicization process from Evangelism to Christian Zionism will be analyzed and the conceptual confusion will be eliminated with an analytical approach, and then the importance of the position of Christian Zionist groups and ideas in the Trump era will be emphasized.

Keywords

Christian Zionism , Evangelism , Israel , Trump

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