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Over the last few decades, scholarly interest in political relations between the Christian world and the State of Israel has focused primarily on the Roman Catholic Church’s view of the Zionist movement and its perceived slowness in establishing full diplomatic relations with the Jewish State. Here in his Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Policy, 1948-1967, Dr Uri Bialer addresses the question in the opposite direction
Occupying the chair in International Relations – Middle East Studies in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University, Dr Bialer has opened up a seldomaddressed topic both fascinating and illuminating: In its first twenty years, how did the new-born State of Israel, in its foreign diplomacy and internal policies, address the Christian world?
A perspicacious historian with the necessary language skills to analyze recently declassified (1980) Israeli governmental archives, recognizes and honors the complexity of his topic. He carefully notes the multiple factors affecting the new state’s diplomats and policy makers in assessing their delicate but forceful formulation of policy towards the Christian world – both those Christians living in Israel and those countries, often overwhelmingly Christian, whose support the young state desperately needed, even and maybe especially after its United Nations’ authorization
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Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Policy, 1948-1967 Over the last few decades, scholarly interest in political relations between the Christian world and the State of Israel has focused primarily on the Roman Catholic Church’s view of the Zionist movement (before the founding of the State) and its perceived slowness in establishing full diplomatic relations with the Jewish State.
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