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Chapters 5, 6, and 7 of Power, Faith, and Fantasy show American fascination with the

area for commercial, diplomatic, and religious reasons, from the first American sailor

stepping on the shores of Barbary in the late seventeenth century to the thousands of

American tourists to the Middle East in the mid-1800s. Antebellum America is a very deep

Christian country. Therefore, confidence in policy towards the Middle East is essential. The

country believed in the ideals of freedom, human rights, democracy, and Christianity. At this

point, Americans felt they had some ministerial responsibility to the world. They believed

that they were responsible for the religious salvation of a region like the Middle East.

After the victory in the Barbary War, the U.S. became a global maritime power. A

country that can defend itself and its ships. The country wanted to spend more time in the

Ottoman Empire. In that sense, it makes a lot of sense. On May 7, 1830, the country was able

to sign a landmark treaty with the Ottoman Empire. This agreement helps Americans travel

and work as missionaries in the area (Alvi-Aziz and Oren, 2008, p. 18). The Old American

Puritans researched the Old Testament in-depth and concluded that America was the New

Promised Land and that the Americans were the new Jews. The multiple victories of the

missionaries in Syria, Mount Lebanon, and Beirut in 1840 severely affected the Americans

on the U.S. border. It launched the Manifest Destiny movement. Under this movement, the

United States spent its territory in the United States. Citizens believed that the nation had a

responsibility to spread its principles (religious and secular) through moral respect and human

beings' salvation on earth.

Although the missionaries' efforts to convert Muslims and Jews failed, they created

dozens of schools that taught American doctrine. By the 1830s, hundreds of Muslims,

Christians, and Jews studied in missionary institutions throughout the Ottoman Empire.
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The Puritans of the 1840s felt connected to the Old Promised Land and needed to help the old

Jews return to Palestine's Promised Land. The U.S. has come up with a new idea to help the

Jews return to Palestine (Oren, 2007). A new movement called the Reconstruction Company

spread throughout. The movement was divided into two groups - those who chose to pray

only for the Jews (George Bush a Reverend, Hebrew professor in the 1840s) and the more

active. The activities of these people became very popular in America in the nineteenth

century. Like them, many Americans went to Palestine and created colonies for the return of

Jews. The founders of those colonies taught agriculture to the Jews.

However, the Jews were not interested in agriculture. Besides, to help the Jews in this

area, it is important to emphasize and enforce the great losses Americans face. Some left their

families and children to answer the biblical call; they suffered, lost property, and contracted

deadly diseases; He was persuaded to join amid many crises. Those movements' will was

"God created and strengthened America] especially to try the Jews (Oren, 2007)." During the

nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United States had some multifaceted relations with the

Middle East and North Africa. Through the movements developed above, America expanded

its principles in the Middle East (Alvi-Aziz and Oren, 2008, p. 18). The country established

diplomatic and trade relations with the Ottoman Empire. The Middle East people saw

America as a Western country and tried to attack it as anti-Muslim. Through their

organizations, missionaries are in the United States, a religious but tolerant state. The strong

desire of American Christians to repatriate Jews to Palestine is a good thing. However, it also

creates constant tension in the region between Jews and Arabs. Tensions lead to thousands of

deaths and countless wars.

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References

Alvi-Aziz, H. and Oren, M.B., 2008. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East:

1776 to the Present. Naval War College Review, 61(4), p.18.

Oren, M.B., 2007. Power, faith, and fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the

present. WW Norton & Company.