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There are about 3,000,000 Palestinians. 400,00 are living in Israel as an oppressed minority. About a million are under Israeli control in the occupied territories and another million and a half make up a Palestinian diaspora. Roughly 500,00 of the overall number of three million live in refugee camps in the occupied territories and in the neighboring Arab countries maintained by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA...
...even later age than most messiahs. His parents are burned to death in their home: a token of the holocaust that consumes Jews by the millions in World War II. Simon's obsession with the cycles of buying and selling transfers to the cycles of his race: holocaust, Diaspora, and return. The total financier from the Lower East Side becomes just as totally the savior. He sets up a Society for the Rescue and Resurrection of the Jews. In 1945, he recruits survivors of Buchenwald for quite another kind of compound-the society's "fortress," built into...
...Palestinian people to be incorporated into a state of their own"-either Jordan or a separate state between Jordan and Israel. He dismisses the arguments that the Arabs under Israeli control were never before so well off as a "terrible echo of our past in the Diaspora, when the Gentiles used to say the same about Jews...
...School: "For me, as for my friends, our standing as natives of Israel crowned us with a tint of nobility. We were the first generation of the deliverance, Hebrew children who did not know what anti-Semitism was. We were tanned, cheeky and free-the diametrical opposite of the Diaspora child, who was pale, white and frightened...
Today's typical Sabra is tough, proud and seemingly unemotional. "Our children are ashamed to be ashamed," an Israeli psychoanalyst once observed. "They are afraid to be afraid." The Israeli-born Jew is also a bit weary of hearing about the sufferings of the Diaspora, if not openly scornful of the Diaspora Jew's passive acceptance of his fate...