Green Crescent Over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land by Raphael Israeli

Author:Raphael Israeli [Israeli, Raphael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Social Science, Political Science, Regional Studies, General
ISBN: 9781135315214
Google: BfJRAwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 21924729
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Israeli Embassy in London reported that the Head of the Church of Scotland, the Reverend Alan Main, had decided to cancel his visit to Nazareth and had written a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister urging him to safeguard Christian pilgrims and the Christian population of Nazareth.13

The Embassy of Israel in Washington was contacted by Father Drew Christiansen, on behalf of the American Council of Bishops, who expressed concern about the construction of the mosque in Nazareth. He singled out the statements made by the Israeli Minister of the Interior and the Deputy Minister of Education (both from the Shas Party, the Islamists’ ally) who had sided with the Islamists during their visits to Nazareth, and had pledged to encourage the government to decide in favor of the mosque.14

On April 15 1999, the Minister of Tourism (Katsav/Likkud) and the Minister of the Interior (Swissa/Shas) were apprised by the Prime Minister’s Adviser for Arab Affairs of the concerns of the Vatican and the increasing pressure from there regarding the dispute in Nazareth.15 That letter was occasioned by a warning transmitted on the same day by the Department of Religious Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, which was concerned about the manipulation of the media regarding an eventual statement by the Vatican in this affair.16 This untypically swift reaction of the bureaucracy suggests that the ministers in charge were very concerned to handle this growing issue with both care and expediency, and that the ministers were not totally impervious to the appeals of the Christians.

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