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Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land, and State of Israel Kathleen Norton Bracken making this Handbook an importantAfter Vatican II, the Roman Catholic Church began a process of stripping away anti Jewish sentiments within its theological culture. One question that has arisen and received very scant attention regards the theological significance of the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and the attendant nakba, the plight of the Palestinian people. Some American evangelical Christians have developed a theology around the state of Israel, associating