Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...importance to China's big modernization drive. But territory itself has always been important to Chinese self-respect and world prestige. From an economic or historical perspective, then, it is not surprising that the victors of the Chinese revolution have been so intent on returning lost territories to their homeland. And if nothing else, Sinkiang province has served China well as a suitably unpopulated area for nuclear-bomb testing...
...operation depended on an all-pervasive racism, like the one South Africans face today, not even a government existing primarily as an agent of another country's imperialism, like the one South Vietnamese face today. Rather, the Palestinians faced another nation in a territory both thought of as their homeland...
...that the time has come to test Arab intentions by pulling back in Sinai. He may perhaps warn the Arabs that the present oil policy heavily improves the Soviet position in the Middle East and runs the risk of losing U.S. support for such touchy issues as a Palestinian homeland and possible internationalization of Jerusalem. In view of the new spirit of unity created in Algiers last week, his arguments will have to be very convincing to have any effect...
...career, Ben-Gurion believed that Jews and Arabs could live side by side in peace; but extremist passions on both sides made such a plan impossible, and he soon sensed it. After 1935 he thought only in terms of Palestine as a Jewish state rather than as a homeland for both Jews and Arabs, and devoted himself to planning the immigration and armed strength necessary to accomplish it. "Without a Jewish army," he insisted, "there would never be a Jewish state...
...years ago the Nazis successfully exterminated more than 6,000,000 Jews, while the rest of the Western nations looked on with apathy. After World War II, these same nations agreed that in some way the remaining Jews should be repaid for their losses and guaranteed a permanent homeland...