Word: diaspora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demeaning for gulf Arabs to do themselves. Yemenis, Pakistanis, Taiwanese, Thais and Filipinos clean the streets, serve in restaurants and manage hotels-a large and disquieting foreign presence. Educated Egyptians and Palestinians occupy key professional posts, even serving as top advisers to heads of state. The Palestinian diaspora, estimated to be 400,000 through the gulf, has been the major factor in the gulf states' refusal-Oman is the exception-to support the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Brief Baedekers on the Arab gulf nations...
...rebuttal, Begin said: "I believe with all my heart that the land of Israel belongs to the whole Jewish people ... Hence, I have no objection to Jews who live in the Diaspora criticizing the government of the day." Nonetheless, he complained that he "found reason for surprise" that Jews abroad "did not exercise this right during the office of previous governments ... whereas in these days there are some Jews who feel they can bountifully indulge in this right...