Word: diaspora
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...central issue of the Middle East remained unsettled: the fate of the Palestinian people. The Arab states basically favor an independent sovereign state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a home both for Palestinians already living there and for millions now in the diaspora. The Israelis, appalled at the notion of a hostile state, perhaps run by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, on Israel's very border, are determined that, whatever happens, the Palestinian "entity" shall not be wholly independent and shall not control its own security-or be able to threaten Israel...
...Africanism: Africa and the Black Diaspora--Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; Olara Otunnu, general secretary, Uganda Freedom Union; and Robert van Lierop, editor, Review of African Political Economy; Rm. 101, Pound Bldg...
...sake of our future, the future of our children, we shall fight. We don't want to be like the red Indians, and we will not be. Even in our exodus, in the harsh and tough life of our diaspora, after we had been kicked out of our homeland, we the Palestinian people have the highest percentage of educated people in this area. So we will not be red Indians...
...strong, hunched shoulders, Golda seemed to carry the entire history of the Jewish ordeal, seeing herself as a paradigm of the Jew from the Diaspora returned to the promised land. And if her audience did not immediately sense that, Golda made sure they soon did. "I, the daughter of Moshe Mabovitch, who was just an ordinary carpenter . . ." was one of her favorite ways of beginning a speech. What she had not experienced in person, she assumed by proxy. Diplomats emerged from interviews with a stunned look, complaining that all they had wanted to do was to discuss a minor customs...
Attempts at settling the Palestinian problem through conventional Arab armies in four fruitless wars and through international forums such as the U.N. and talks in Geneva have not solved the Palestinian refugee diaspora. The 1967 Arab defeat was the final blow that showed these embittered Palestinians that conventional Arab warfare was not an effective means by which to promote their cause, and that they must resort to independent commando action to make that cause audible...