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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457587903321

Autore

Bialer Uri

Titolo

Cross on the star of David [[electronic resource] ] : the Christian world in Israel's foreign policy, 1948-1967 / / Uri Bialer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07250-1

9786612072505

0-253-11148-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in Middle East studies

Disciplina

327.56940456/34/09045

Soggetti

Church and state - Israel

Christians - Government policy - Israel

Electronic books.

Israel Foreign relations Catholic Church

Israel Politics and government 1948-1967

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The sense of threat emerges -- The struggle for Jerusalem : the papal connection -- At the gates of the Vatican -- Theology and diplomacy -- Missionary activity -- Goat and chicken diplomacy : Israel and its Christian communities -- Israel and the question of the Russian ecclesiastical assets -- Land in the shadow of the cross : German Lutheran, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox property in Israel -- Epilogue: on viewing the enemy and bridge building.

Sommario/riassunto

The official establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948 constituted                the realization of the Zionist vision, but military victory left in its wake                internal and external survival issues that would threaten this historic achievement                for decades to come. The refusal of the international community to recognize the                political, geographic, and demographic results of the War of Independence presented                Israel with a permanent regional security threat, while isolating and alienating it                in the international ar