American’s who had not been to the “Holy Land”, which is Palestine and the regions surrounding it, found ways to identify with it through American Holy Land Literature. This literature very much piqued the interest of American people in many different ways and for various different reasons. In Hilton Obenziger’s “American Palestine”, it can be interpreted that American Holy Land Literature is one that sparks the curiosity of the American people by portraying a mystical place, one that would be found in a fantasy novel. Furthermore, much like the aspect of “destiny” found in American…