Abstract

The text deals with the confessional involvement of different organisations in the question of existance and shape of the modern State Israel. An object of the reflexion here presented are activities of lutheran international institutions and these ecumenical organisations where lutheran voices seam to be significant. On the horizon of here mentioned questions appear following problems: existance of the State Israel, ideology of sionism and its attitude towards religions, religious coexistance inward the state, humanitarian help for Jewish (after the WWII) refugees, help for Arab refugees (after arab-israeli wars), question of international borders, problem of stately belonging of Jerusalem, and especially – reflexion about human and citizen laws in the Middle East. Among the organisations described in the article one can find Lutheran World Federation, Lutheran Comission Church and Judaism (LEKKJ) and expectionally an overconfessional one: WCC (because of the presence of lutherans there). The author of the article shows, how – from the historical perspective – these institutional bodies – supported or struggled decisons of United Nations related to the main social and religious problems. Text reveals also a development of the attitudes of lutheran christians, among whom the hudge disscusions had have place in the period of 1948 – 2010. One of the crucial problems expressed in this debate is the question brouht up for discussion: ”Solidarity with which side?