UID:
almafu_9959227916202883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-07250-1
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9786612072505
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0-253-11148-X
Series Statement:
Indiana series in Middle East studies
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34647-9
Language:
English
