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Vatican’s Concerns in the Turmoil of the Middle East Reshuffle ................................................... 7
• The ‘Eastern Question’ and the Status Quo ............................................................................................ 7
• The Dismembering of the Ottoman Empire and the Balfour Declaration ........................................... 9
• The Vatican’s Denial of Diplomatic Relations with Israel and the 1948 War ....................................... 11
The Lobbying for the Internationalization of Jerusalem at the United Nations ......................... 15
• Jerusalem as a Corpus Separatum .............................................................................................................. 15
• The Failure at the UN and the De Facto Partition of Jerusalem ............................................................. 19
“Nostra Aetate” and the Turning Point of 1967 ................................................................................ 21
• Opening up to the Jewish Faith ............................................................................................................ 21
• The Renunciation of a ‘Corpus Separatum’ for Jerusalem, in Favor of a ‘Special Statute,
Internationally Guaranteed’ .................................................................................................................. 23
• The Recognition of the Palestinians as a ‘People’ ................................................................................. 27
John Paul II and the Centrality of Jerusalem for the Achievement of a Just Peace .................... 29
• The Support of Palestinian Aspirations ................................................................................................ 29
• The Indivisibility of the Territorial and Religious Aspects of the Question of Jerusalem ................... 31
The Search for a Stronger Influence in the Negotiations on the Future of Jerusalem ............... 35
• From Multilateralism to Bilateralism .................................................................................................... 35
• The ‘Fundamental Agreement’ and the Recognition of the State of Israel ........................................... 38
• The ‘Basic Agreement between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization’ ................. 42
The Disappointments of the Peace Process ........................................................................................ 45
• The Papal Pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the Breakout of the Second Intifada ............................... 45
• The Rising Tensions between Israel and the Vatican ............................................................................ 47
The Holy See Under Benedict XVI: Losing its Moral Stance? ....................................................... 55
• The Progressive Estrangement from the Palestinians ........................................................................... 55
• The Draft Economic Agreement between the Holy See and Israel....................................................... 59
• The End of the Holy See’s Traditional Stance on Jerusalem and the Palestine Issue? ............
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