Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being in an "impossible position," that phrase was less applicable to Egypt than to the P.L.O., whose panicky leaders last week worried whether they might end up as the losers in the new Middle East diplomatic moves. Although Sadat spoke forthrightly to the Knesset about Palestinian rights to a homeland, never once did he mention the P.L.O.-which Arab leaders, at their 1974 Rabat summit, had designated as the sole legitimate representative ofthe Palestinian people...
...with justice and security, but on conditions that few of his Knesset listeners would be likely to accept. He called on Israel to return all Arab territory occupied during the Six-Day War?including the Old City of Jerusalem?and to recognize "the core of the problem": a national homeland for the Palestinian people. "It is not fair," he insisted, "to ask for yourself what you deny to others. Even the U.S., your first and foremost ally, chose to face reality...
Responding in Hebrew, Begin reminded his visitor of the long history of suffering and exile of the Jewish people, who "never for a day" had forgotten that Eretz Israel was their homeland. The Premier, who referred only sporadically to his written speech, provided the only surprise of the day. He declared that "our country is open to all the citizens of Egypt without any condition, and may the visitors be many." In return, Begin said, he hoped to visit Cairo too, and he issued a call to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon "to come and talk...
...theory, an argument could perhaps be made for a homelands policy?but not as the South African government has designed it. If every black in South Africa were to move to his ancestral homeland, 70% of the population would be packed into 13% of the land, much of it arid and unprofitable. Only one homeland, Basotho-QwaQwa, is composed of a single piece of land. The others are broken into two or more parts, surrounded by white South Africa. KwaZulu was in 29 pieces five years ago, but eventually will be consolidated into six. Homeland leaders are demanding more land...
...real purpose behind the homeland policy is transparent: to assure continued Afrikaner dominance. Blacks will remain in white South Africa because they must have jobs?and because they are desperately needed by industry as a source of labor. Without them, the country's economy would collapse overnight. But politically their presence is an embarrassment to the government because they outnumber the whites by so wide a margin. Now, when an urban black's theoretical homeland becomes independent, he automatically becomes a citizen of that homeland?and is even dropped from the South African census figures. In reality, of course...