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The Vatican & Jerusalem• 2000, July: Camp David Summit.• 2000, Aug. 6: Cardinal Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI) issues “Dominus Iesus,” which claimsthe superiority of Catholicism over other Christian and non-Christian faiths.• 2000, Sept. 28: Breakout of the Al Aqsa Intifada following the visit of the Haram ash-Sharif bya heavily policed Likud Party delegation led by Ariel Sharon.• 2001, Jan. 21-27: Taba Summit.• 2002, April 2 - May 10: Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.• 2004, Nov. 11: Death of Yasser Arafat in a French military hospital.• 2005, Jan. 9: Mahmoud Abbas is elected President of the Palestinian Authority.• 2006, Jan. 25: Hamas’ Change and Reform Party wins a surprise majority at the elections for thePalestinian Legislative Council (PLC); growing tensions between Fatah and Hamas result in militaryconflict and the split of the Palestinian Authority (Fatah ruling over the West Bank and Hamas overthe Gaza strip).• 2006, Sept. 12: Pope Benedict XVI makes controversial comments on Islam during a lecture at theUniversity of Regensburg, Germany.• 2007, Nov. 27: Annapolis Conference.• 2008, Dec. 27 - 2009, Jan. 18: Israeli War on Gaza.• 2009, May: Benedict XVI visits the Holy Land, meets with Palestinian and Israeli leaders.• 2010: Resumption of the PLO-Holy See negotiations.• 2011, Sept.: Request for recognition of Palestine as a member state of the United Nations.• 2012, March: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) sends a delegation to Rome tourge the Vatican to respect international law in its negotiations with Israel.• 2012, June 10: Media reports reveal that the draft of the economic agreement under discussionbetween Israel and the Holy See fails to make a clear distinction between Israel proper and theoccupied Palestinian territories.Selected Bibliography:annexes• Abdul-Hadi, Mahdi (ed.). “Religious Issues and Holy Places in Jerusalem—Towards a PermanentSolution,” in Jerusalem: Religious Aspects, PASSIA Publications, The Religious Studies Unit, Jerusalem,Second Edition, 2000. http://www.passia.org/meetings/rsunit/religasp.html.• Abdul-Hadi, Mahdi (ed.). Documents on Jerusalem, Vol. 1, PASSIA Publications, Jerusalem, 2007.• Abu Khalaf, Marwan, Yitzhak Reiter and Marlen Eordegian. “Between Devine and Human: TheComplexity of Holy Places in Jerusalem,” in Maoz, Joseph and Sari Nusseibeh (ed.), Jerusalem: Points ofFriction and Beyond, Kluwer Law International, London, 2000.• Abu Khalaf, Marwan, Yitzhak Reiter and Marlen Eordegian. “Jerusalem’s Religious Significance,” inPalestine Israel Journal, Vol 8, n°1, 2000.• Al Hindy, Elie. “The New Jerusalem: An Oriental Christian Perspective,” in Jerusalem: Religions andPolitics, Politics and Religion/Politologie des religions, n°2, vol.5, Notre Dame University, Lebanon,2011. http://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/images/pdf_files/engleski/volume5_no2/elie%20al%20hindy.pdf.• Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996.• Benvenisti, Meron. Jerusalem: The Torn City, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1976.• Blum, Yehuda Zvi. “The Juridical Status of Jerusalem,” in Jerusalem Papers on Peace Problems, LeonardDavis Institute, H.U., Jerusalem, February 1974.• Bowman, Glenn. “Unholy Struggle on Holy Ground,” in Anthropology Today, June 1986, pp 14-18.• Breger, Marshall J. (ed.). The Vatican-Israel Accords: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts, Universityof Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2004.• Breger, Marshall J. “Religion and Politics in Jerusalem,” in Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 50, 1996.• Breger, Marshall J. “Symposium: The Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State ofIsrael: a Third Anniversary Perspective: a Symposium,” in The Catholic University Law Review, Winter 1998.• Breger, Marshall J. “The New Battle for Jerusalem,” in Middle East Quarterly, n°4, vol. 1, December 1994.http://www.meforum.org/204/the-new-battle-for-jerusalem.• Breger, Marshall J. and Thomas A. Idinopulos. “Jerusalem’s Holy Places and The Peace Process,” in TheWashington Institute for Near East Policy, n°46, Washington D. C., 1998.• Cattan, Henry. “The Status of Jerusalem under International Law and United Nations Resolutions,” inJournal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 10, no. 3, University of California Press, Berkeley, Spring 1981, pp. 3-15.• Chapman Colin, Whose Holy City? Jerusalem and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lion Books, Oxford, 2004.104 105