Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews, so devoted to a homeland not seen in nearly 2,000 years, be so insensitive to the Palestinians' longing to return to their homeland? Israeli immigrants today go to a country most have never seen, and all have roots elsewhere in the world...
...such problems beset the judges awarding the prizes for economics and literature, which went to Harvard's Wassily Leontief, 67 (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and Australian Patrick White, 61, whose sensitive, lonely novels are set against the vast open spaces of his homeland...
...problem could be settled by adopting 1) King Hussein's proposal that the West Bank be turned into a semiautonomous region federated with Jordan; or 2) Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's plan for turning Jordan and the West Bank into one country, "Palestine," and making it a homeland for Palestinian refugees, who already constitute a majority of the region's population. Such a settlement would now seem to be unacceptable to both sides, but in the aftermath of repeated wars, one or the other may have to do some hard rethinking...
...conflict, oil is not the chief bone of contention between the Israelis and the Arabs. The Egyptians and the Syrians are demanding the return of territories captured by Israel in June 1967 and Israeli recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination. The Palestinians seek to recover their former homeland, part of which is now the state of Israel...
Equally unsurprising was the Israelis' militant response. A dispersed people--including many refugees from Nazi oppression--who had come together from all over the world to establish a homeland was forced to struggle against a new threat to its existence...