Word: homeland
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...died during and after the war. French casualties, military and civilian, are estimated at 27,000 killed and some 65,000 injured. When the end came, a terrible exodus began. Forced to choose between "the suitcase or the coffin," nearly 1 million white pied noir settlers tearfully abandoned their homeland. For more than a century it had been considered as much a part of France as Brittany or Provence...
...that the Arab states as well as the international community will settle for peace at the cost of the Palestinian cause. This reality has been shown by Israeli violations of international U.N. law concerning settlement policy in occupied territories and recognition of the Palestinians' right to return to their homeland (U.N. Resolutions 3236, 3237, 3376, 3375, 3379 of 1974-76); actions by the Arab League subordinating the Palestinian cause to Arab state interest; a dismissed Geneva Conference; and U.N.-, Rogers-, Sadat-initiated moves contrary to PLO objectives...
...years we had a love affair with Eretz Israel-the land of Israel. During all our history, we Jews enshrined the value of the human being. Israel's main problem remains how to fulfill those values in a Jewish community living independently on the soil of her ancient homeland...
Like two other names now carved in marble, Carnegie and Frick, the Mellons began their rise amid the soot and grime of Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...
Dispossessed, deprived, desperate and daring Palestinians, living outside of Palestine, are more of a danger to the security of Israel than 3 million independent Palestinians settled in a homeland on the West Bank under the observation of the U.N., the U.S. and Israel...