Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...totally desirable to many. It may be significant that these particular students, many of whose parents are connected with government service, have these feelings about America. Or they may just have a more acute sense of vision gained from their experience abroad. They feel they haven't lost a homeland but have gained...
...boycott the Middle East debate at the United Nations Security Council last week, because the Palestine Liberation Organization was taking part. At week's end Council members were still debating the precise wording of an Arab-sponsored resolution affirming the Palestinians' "inalienable national right" to a homeland. Although the draft resolution also advocated security guarantees for all states in the area-a tacit acknowledgement of Israel's right to exist-the U.S. was expected to veto the resolution when it comes to a vote early this week...
PERLMUTTER: You deny the concept of a Jewish national state. We live in an age of national movements. The Jews came to Zion, the [historic] land of the Jews. A Jew from Russia has a right to come to Haifa because it is the Jewish national homeland, as much as Egypt is for an Egyptian. As for the Palestinians, during the British mandate there were no Palestinians. People came from Syria, Egypt or what is now Lebanon who lived in the area called Palestine. You know, if we are going to history, we will never resolve...
When you ask me to recognize Israel, does this mean I have to remain in exile forever? How can you ask me to recognize this Jewish homeland when I cannot return? I am from Jerusalem. My father is living there, and yet I cannot go and see him. You know well I cannot...
...indeed the Carlos, however, his name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez. He is 26, the son of a Venezuelan Communist intellectual who gave each of three sons one of Lenin's names: Vladimir, Ilyich and Lenin. Carlos was recruited by the KGB in his homeland and sent to Moscow's Lumumba University for training sometime in the late '60s. He also attended four special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate. In 1969 he was expelled from...