Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homeless, to live on international hand-outs of a few cents a day, to be "an outsider, an alien, a refugee, a burden." It fills the cold term "Arab refugee" with painful reality. Fawaz Turki views his as an existential problem. It is a yearning for a homeland, for being part of a culture. "If I was not a Palestinian when I left Haifa as a child," he says...
...Palestinian problem is not just a refugee problem as Turki makes quite clear; it is a national problem. The Palestinian refugees have never wanted to be resettled in Lebanon or Syria or Jordan. They feel separate, they want their own homeland and a self-determined destiny. As Eric Rouleau, the distinguished Middle East correspondent of Le Monde, pointed out earlier this year when speaking at Harvard in response to an Israeli Jewish questioner, the Palestinian situation is almost a mirror image of the Jewish situation before the creation of the State of Israel. There now exists a Palestinian diaspora with...
...Richard Nixon) or sailing in an assured, near professional style (he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960). Deadly serious about his future, King Constantine, 33, has conscientiously kept up with Greek politics since the failure of a 1967 attempt to oust the junta forced him to flee his homeland...
...alver, who is himself an exile and a graduate, the Miami program has been expanded to include doctors from 19 other Latin American, as well as a dozen European and Asian countries. In at least one case, the students were able to apply their training immediately to benefit their homeland. Nine Nicaraguan physicians were enrolled in the course at the time of the earthquake that devastated Managua in 1972. As soon as they completed their training, the university provided $30,000 to help them set up a special relief project to aid the quake victims...
...group, the Sabras tend to dismiss or be uninterested in the grand visions of Zionism; yet they are zealous about the fate of their homeland. They tend to be more tolerant and respectful toward the Arabs of Israel than their parents are. In the right-wing extremist group called "Land of Israel," which would like to expel Arabs from all Israeli territory, there is said to be not a single native-born Israeli...