Word: homeland
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...community-were again given what amounted to an insignificant amount of assistance in the fight for sovereignty. The subsequent miraculous victory in the 1948 War of Independence will be recalled in Israel a week from tomorrow on Israel's independence day, to mark the re-establishment of the Jewish homeland more than 2,000 years since the expulsion of the Jews from their home. Sadly, the recent events in northern Israel are bitter testimony that the Jews are still, in spite of the experiences of several millenia of persecution, denied that basic tenet of freedom and self-expression afforded humanity...
...promises, be sharing their husbands' fate. One day later, the Iraqi News Agency said the brothers, their father and a younger sibling had been killed in a gun battle when angry clansmen stormed the family residence, declaring that their "blood should be shed because of their treason to the homeland...
Last summer, her parents were killed while vacationing in their homeland of Haiti, which was in the midst of political upheaval...
...have been killed by a mob of "hotheads" in Baghdad. The killings follow shortly after news that Saddam Hussein's daughters had divorced the husbands they had defected to Jordan with six months ago. Iraq's official news agency announced the divorces earlier today and cited "betrayal of the homeland" as the wives' main reason. The two men, Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel, had returned to Iraq with assurances of a pardon being granted by Saddam Hussein. The fact that General Kamel was Saddam's blood relative and married to his favorite daughter...
...five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana said last week of her homeland, waving the stump that is all that remains of her right arm. "There is nothing left...