Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than any other group, Jews ought to be sympathetic to the Palestinian plea for a homeland. The Palestinians do not want to be scattered over the Middle East any more than the Jews wanted to remain dispersed throughout Europe...
...Bible were bonds between Jews and Christians that had always been part of my life. I also believed very deeply that the Jews who had survived the Holocaust deserved their own nation and that they had a right to live in peace among their neighbors. I considered this homeland for the Jews to be compatible with the teachings of the Bible, hence ordained by God. These beliefs made my commitment to the security of Israel unshakable...
...thinks he doesn't love his wife. He knows he doesn't know his daughter. He wants to find his identity again. So he dumps his woman, takes his kid and heads for the Mediterranean homeland of his fathers. Along the way, he picks up an oversized wanderer named Aretha (Susan Sarandon) whose greatest claim is her ability to sing Jewish folk songs in both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting...
...giving the bloodthirsty militiamen a chance to run amuck? Whatever the answer, the government of Menachem Begin had a lot of explaining to do. It may eventually have a lot to regret too, for the Beirut bloodbath could very well provide powerful impetus to the Palestinian drive for a homeland...
DIED. Mohammed Abdullah, 76, the tempestuous "Lion of Kashmir" who struggled over much of his life to free his predominantly Muslim homeland from the political domination of India; of a heart attack; in Srinagar, Kashmir...