Who threatens the Arab world: Iran or the US and Israel?

or the past month, US President Donald Trump and his secretaries of state and of war have emphasised a vision of the United States as a white Christian European nation at war with the non-Christian, non-white world.

It was therefore unsurprising that, before they attacked Iran on 28 February, American commanders reportedly told their troops that this was a war for "Armageddon" and would bring about the "return of Jesus".

Reports circulating on social media claimed that US Air Force personnel were served steak and lobster for their "last supper" before embarking on their missions.

The obscene spectacle of Trump surrounded by Protestant Evangelical Christian Zionist religious leaders, praying for an American and Israeli victory against the non-white non-Christians they are bombing, set the tone for the US administration's propaganda.

But it also reflects a deepening ideological divide within right-wing American politics. On one side are Evangelical Christian and Jewish Zionists who support wars against Iran and the Palestinians; on the other are right-wing Christians who believe that America is being drawn into wars on behalf of Israel.

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