%0 Journal Article
%T The Politics of Mainstream Christianity in Jerusalem/// Kud¨¹s te Ortodoks Hristiyanl   n Politikalar
%A Samuel J. KURUV£¿LLA
%J History Studies : International Journal of History
%D 2010
%I History Studies : International Journal of History
%X The rapid development of the Palestinian national struggle from a rebel guerrilla movement in the 1960s and 1970s to an organization with almost all the attributes of an organized state (although, without sustainable national space) in the 1980s and 1990s also contributed to the politicization of the Palestinian Christian church in Israel/Palestine. During this period, certain Israeli policies that included land confiscations, church and property destruction, building restrictions and a consequent mass emigration of the faithful, all contributed to a new restrictive climate of political intolerance being faced by the churches. The 1990s and 2000s saw the start and doom of the Oslo  peace process  between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as well as the fruition of many Israeli territorial and settlement policies regarding the Old City and mainly Arab-inhabited East Jerusalem as well as the West Bank of historic Palestine. Church-State relations plummeted to their lowest point in decades during this period. The results of the suspicion and distrust created by these experiences continue to dog the mutual relations of Israelis, Palestinian Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land.
%K Millet (Nationality)
%K Filastin (Palestinian Nationalism)
%K Palestinian Christians and Muslims
%K the 'Status Quo ' in the Holy Places
%K Arab Jerusalem (Al-Quds)
%K the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe)
%U http://www.historystudies.net/Makaleler/664962228_Samuel_J__Kuruvilla.pdf