Word: diasporas
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...Theirs are European images of chivalry on horse back, spirits with gleaming swords that conquered the land. Their dream of Michael's identity is that he is a sort of missionary figure to Indians. Son exposes Jadine to screaming nightmares filled with ghosts of the women of his past, "diaspora mothers with pumping breasts" who watch her mockingly. She flys from Son eventually, and the novel leaves them and their painful dreas separated...
Similarly, Elkin squeezes out comedy from lost causes, the tickling sensation that comes when backs rub against the wall. An old peddler named Isidore Feldman fetches up in Illinois. He tells his new neighbors that he is "in the last phase of the Diaspora. I have come to the end of the trail in your cornfields." And he gives his son some good advice: "Travel light. Because there will come catastrophe. Every night expect the flood, the earthquake, the fire, and think of the stock...
Your neighbors on the T are members of a growing community of Soviet immigrants, the vast majority of them Jews, who have settled in the Hub area over the past six or seven years. They are part of an on-again-off-again diaspora of Soviet Jews, whose numbers rise and fall with each chill and thaw in Soviet-American relations...
...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...