Word: homeland
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...Holocaust is also wrongly invoked by both extremes of the Palestinians homeland debate. Some far right political leaders interpret the Holocaust as a carte blanche for mass detentions, brutal beatings or even expulsion of Arabs from the territories. Since we suffered, the argument goes, no one can prevent us from making Palestinians suffer too. "Never again--and who cares what you think," wrote Meyer Kahane, the foremost exponent of this view, in The New York times...
...also seek to reaffirm that the Armenian people have a struggle which includes restoration of the homeland," Habeshian added...
...Soviets amply rewarded Philby for his services: a lavish apartment (by Moscow standards), chauffeurs, a plummy desk job at KGB headquarters. Yet the only perk he really cared for, Knightley notes, was access to artifacts of his homeland: pipes from Jermyn Street, books (he liked Dick Francis' mysteries), magazines, the Times of London (whose daily crossword puzzle he regularly solved in 15 minutes...
...Nobody and nothing can justify the deaths of innocent people," said Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the former party chief in the southern republic who was dispatched to his homeland after Sunday's bloodshed, in a speech to the local party plenum that made the leadership changes...
...France, didn't anyone ask him whether or not he was planning to return to England? Who cares where Graham Greene lives -- in England or in France? And Hemingway, he lived quite peacefully in Cuba (can you imagine! on an island!) and didn't hurry back to his Great Homeland. But Russia, it seems, possesses particular advantages (borders, the KGB, internal passports, patriotism, perestroika, nostalgia) that for some reason must be satisfied. The whole world begs you: Since you're a Russian writer, live in Russia. Especially since there's perestroika...