God’s just Gaza war: futurity foreclosed through evangelical apocalypse as orthogonal promise of Eretz Israel

After the evacuation of Gush Katif settlement and intensifying with 2008–2009 Israeli War on Gaza, border town Sderot its surrounding landscape became, for American Christian Zionists, a pilgrimage therefore sacred space as it was performed an event site portending apocalypse. Zionists interpreted war took place mise-en-scène hope: hollowing out Gaza in anticipation Christ’s return. read future history. To explain this, I employ Philip K. Dick’s conceptualization ‘orthogonal time’. Time merge always already existing prophetic kairos time manifests itself space. Watching Operation Cast Lead from landscapes overlooking Strip, conducted yearlong ethnography before/during/after 2008/09 Zionists. They justified through colonial imaginings terra nullius three ways: 1) by denying that Palestinians exist legitimate national identity; 2) Palestinians’ ability to reason; 3) inevitability. is God’s land demise Gazans – present not only anticipated preempted, but will have (already) happened.