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• For an authoritative overview of this subject see chapter 5 ofM. Prior, Zionism and the State of Israel,. A Moral Enquiry (Routledge, London and New York, 1999)
• The World Council of Churches was founded in 1948 and represents most of the mainstream non-Roman Catholic Christian denominations
• Statement of World Council Of Churches central Committee on Jerusalem, West Berlin, August 1974
• Statement received from the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations ,3 December, 1979, Documents on Jerusalem, (Passia, Jerusalem, 1996), P. 19
• Andrej Kreutz, Vatican Policy on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, (Greenwood, New York, 1990), P. 154
• Statement by east Jerusalem, West Geneva, 20 August 1980 Documents on Jerusalem, P. 20
• Address by. the .Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Archbishop' Renato R. Martino, concerning Jerusalem, 10 April 1989, Documents onJerusalem, P. 24
• Andrej Kreutz, Vatican Policy on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, p. 154
• Ibid.
• Ibid., p. 156
• These details affect the Holy Places and religious commumtles specified in 1922 ion the League of Nations Mandate to Britain; the UN General Assembly of 194 7 which designated Jerusalem as a separate entity; UN Resolution of December 1948 on the status of Jerusalem and the right of Palestinian return; the UN General Assembly Resolution 303 of 1948 reasserting that Jerusalem should be placed under international authority and administered by the UN; and UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 which demanded Israeli withdrawal from Jerusalem and the other occupied territories
• See M. Prior, Zionism and the State of Israel,. A Moral Enquiry, p. 124
• Andrej Kreutz, Vatican Policy on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, p. 39
• Statement of Solidarity with the Christian Churches in Jerusalem by the Higher Council for Islamic Waqf Affairs and Holy Sites, April 1990, Documents on Jerusalem, P. 15
• Documents on Jerusalem, p. 21
• Documents on Jerusalem, p. 34
• Musa Darwish together with Dr Adnan Mussalam also of Bethlehem University in a conversation with the author in the offices of AlLiqa1, July 1999 For a detailed breakdown of the legal issues involved in Israeli policies towards Jerusalem, see Riziq Shuqair, Jerusalem: Its Legal Status and the Possibility of a Durable Settlement (Al-Haq, Ramallah, 1998)
• Jerusalem Between Religious Freedom and Sovereignty (Al-Liqa', Centre for Religious and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land, Jerusalem, 1995), p.23
• Ibid
• Documents on Jerusalem, 1980 (mecc), p. 21 emergency meeting on Jerusalem, August 1980 [excerpt]
• Archbishop Lutfi Laham Words of Welcome Jerusalem Between Religious Freedom and Sovereignty (Al-Liqa' Centre for Religious and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land, Jerusalem, 1995), p. 11