Word: homeland
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...account is incorrect and unbalanced on several points. Though a Jewish state may have been created in the midst of an Arab population, a Jewish homeland was not. Jews have lived in Israel and called it home for millennia. If the aspirations for an independent Jewish state were merely political, the early Zionists would have chosen the much less complicated option of establishing a state in Uganda...
Aime, who was born in Port-au-Prince but lived in Gonaive before moving to New York, said the ties between Haitian immigrants in the U.S. and their native homeland remains strong. "I wouldn't say our concerns are that different," she said. "We're both concerned with improving Haiti...
...process of establishing and consolidating the State of Israel, the leadership proved that it had the vision and foresight to make the most of every opportunity to realize the important goal of establishing a modern Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland. The Israeli leadership proved that in order to make a dream come true compromises must be made...
...Canosa ended his speech with a call for the realization of a new Cuban republic founded on a "reverence for the freedom of our homeland and the freedom...
This is one of the less painful memories of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were forcibly cleansed from their homeland during the so-called "War of Independence." The facts about the war are rarely mentioned in the U.S. media and are continuously disregarded by many with direct ties to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. My intention here is not to raise questions about Israel's raison d'être, legitimacy or right to exist. I am simply informing those who do not know, and reminding those who have forgotten, that a Jewish homeland was created...