Whose Holy Land?: The Roots of the Conflict Between Jews and Arabs

Holy Land? Israel? Palestine?.- RELIGIOSITY AND POLITICS.- The Pious, the Zealous and a "Dead" God.- Fundamentalism - A Shield for the Culture?.- Is Zionism Blasphemy?.- Zionism in the Quran?.- THE HOLY LAND, RELIGIONS AND POLITICS.- What Is the Holy Land? - Biblical Borders?.- Why Is the Land Holy?.- To Whom Is the Land Holy?.- Where Is the Land Holy? Or: To Whom Does Jerusalem Belong?.- How Is the Land Holy? Or: Holiness and Statehood.- By What Means Is the Land Acquired?.- THE HISTORY OF CHANGING OWNERSHIP.-Whose Possession? Whose Property?.-Names and Power.- The Patriarch Fathers.- Jewish Settlement as "Conquest".- Kingdom and Kingdoms Come and Go.- Exile, Return and Autonomy.- The Europeanization of the Holy Land.- Christians as Heirs and Owners.- Re-Orientalisation - Arabisation, Turkification.- Re-Europeanization.- The Return of Islam.- The Return to Zion.- The British in the Holy Land.- The Founding of Israel -- Palestine Becomes Jordan.- "Greater Israel" -- Jewish or Democratic? Of Federations and Confederation.- Injustice for Injustice - Conclusion - Solution?.

About the Author
Michael Wolffsohn was born in 1947 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a Professor Emeritus for Modern History at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich, Germany. In 2017 he was awarded the title of Germany´s "Professor of the Year". Wolffsohn is the author of numerous books on the Middle East, International Relations, Global Jewish History, and Historical Demoscopy.