Editing Christian right (section)

===Middle East===
{{See also|Christian Zionism}}
Many evangelical Protestant supporters of the religious right have strongly supported the state of [[Israel]] in recent decades, encouraging support for Israel within the United States government.<ref>Stephen Spector, ''Evangelicals and Israel: the story of American Christian Zionism'' (2008) pp 23–49</ref> Some of them have linked Israel to [[Bible prophecy|Biblical prophesies]]; for example, Ed McAteer, founder of the Moral Majority, said "I believe that we are seeing prophecy unfold so rapidly and dramatically and wonderfully and, without exaggerating, makes me breathless."<ref>Jan G. Linn, ''What's Wrong With The Christian Right'' (2004) p 27</ref> This belief, an example of [[dispensationalism]], arises from the idea that the establishment of Israel is a prerequisite for the [[Second Coming]] of Jesus, because it represents the Biblically prophesied [[Gathering of Israel]]. A 2017 poll indicates that this belief is held by 80% of evangelicals, and that half of evangelicals consider it an important cause of their support for the state of Israel.<ref>Bump, Philip. May 14, 2017. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/ "Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy"]. ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

During the [[Lebanese Civil War]] that started in 1975 and ended in 1990, many Christian parties endorsed the right's political viewpoints such as the Christian Lebanese phalanges which is known as the [[Kataeb Party]], and later, the right's political viewpoints were also endorsed by the Lebanese Armed Forces because their power and influence were threatened by the growing power and influence of the more radical [[Islamism|Islamist]] and [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] movements, such as the [[Shiite]] [[Amal Movement]], and the [[Progressive Socialist Party]] in the 1980s.