Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Syria's President Hafez Assad and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd -but not at all well with Israel's then Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. Then the President alarmed Jews when he called for a homeland for Palestinians, suggested that Israel withdraw from almost all of the territory it had seized in the 1967 Six-Day War, and asked for reparations for displaced Arabs-a demand that even Arab leaders have not made...
Actually these points are sensible and have been raised by previous Administrations, mostly in private. No Middle East peace is possible without at least a start toward resettling the Palestinians, but the word "homeland" raises confusion over whether Carter means a sovereign state or a territory affiliated with Jordan. It is also obvious that no peace is possible unless Israel gives up most of the occupied territories, including the West Bank. But there are many possible ways for this to come about, and Carter's pronouncement seems both premature and imprecise...
...repression spawned the ETA (Euz-kadi ta Azkatusuna?Basque Homeland and Liberty) a separatist resistance organization, which among other acts of violence killed Franco's first Premier, Adm>al Luis Carrerro Blanco...
...intransigence that recalls Golda Meir without the humor, he insists that his policy is right and the rest of the world is wrong. "What do you want us to do?" and "We will not commit suicide" are phrases that keep echoing Golda. Blacks will have the vote in their homelands, he insists, but not in white South Africa. "The blacks came here to get jobs, which they need. That is enough. We don't also have to give them political rights. They understand this when they accept the jobs. They will never be part of our Parliament." In other...
Establishing settlers in the so-called liberated Israel is not only unfair but also inhumane because it will take away the last hope of the Palestinians for a homeland. Perhaps now the American people will begin to realize that the money and arms our Government gives to Israel go to a country that is unconcerned about the rights of others...