Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British diplomats, Damascus will still insist on the return of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as the price for its withdrawal from Lebanon. Sooner or later, in the view of many Middle East experts in the U.S. and Western Europe, Syria must be brought into negotiations for a Palestinian homeland. As one senior British diplomat puts it: "Like it or not, Syria is the key to a Middle East settlement...
...Nations mandate. To weaken the Arab nationalist movement, the French created contemporary Lebanon by carving from Syria the Christian region around Mount Lebanon, the predominantly Muslim Bekaa Valley and the coastal cities of Tripoli, Beirut, Sidon and Tyre. Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them. After World War II, France reluctantly departed, and Syria became an independent republic. The Syrians still celebrate April 17, the date of the 1946 French withdrawal, as Evacuation...
...defense of our women and girls is one of the most basic reasons why we men are prepared to fight in defense of our homeland if we were willing to see them killed, mutilated, or captured because they are 'equal,' we might as well say, 'come and get them...
...Jewish people, that Hitler and his lackeys destroyed almost six million during the last World War. But we do not accept that this gives them the right occupy a part of the Arab nation. We believe that the people of Palestine have a right to their homeland...
...civil servant for the British Empire. Not long afterward, Eric's mother took him and his older sister Marjorie back to England, a common domestic arrangement at the time; India was fine as a place for husbands to work, but children were to be brought up in the homeland. Richard Blair joined his family during his infrequent leaves. A younger sister Avril was born when Eric was five...