Original sentence: Historian Paul Charles Merkley, who considers "Christian familiarity with and interpretation of the Bible created the seedbed" within which Zionist lobbying took hold and flourished, wrote in his 2001 book, Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy that the American Friends of the Middle East, which was founded in 1951, and has since changed its name to Amideast, "remains an active anti-Israeli lobby
Edited sentence: Historian Paul Charles Merkley, who believes that "Christian familiarity with and interpretation of the Bible created the seedbed" within which Zionist lobbying took hold and flourished, wrote in his 2001 book, Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy, that the American Friends of the Middle East, which was founded in 1951, and has since changed its name to Amideast, "remains an active anti-Israeli lobby