Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closer to Saudi Arabia. Maybe you need to shake hands with King Hussein [of Jordan] after he was on no-speaking terms with your predecessor, Mr. Carter." Then, drawing himself even straighter, the Prime Minister shouted: "To us it is our life!" His fist crashed onto the table. "Our homeland!" Crash! "The land of our fathers and sons!" Crash! "Judea and Samaria will be for the Jewish people for generations upon generations!" Crash...
...troubled region for most of its history, Palestine at various times fell under the rule of the Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Macedonians, Romans, Turks and finally the British. When the U.N. voted in 1947 to create a Jewish homeland, it decreed that Palestine should be partitioned into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Arab portion included the West Bank. In 1950, however, the territory was annexed by Jordan and in 1967 it was seized by Israel in the Six-Day War after Jordan, committed by a defense pact to help Egypt, entered the conflict. The West Bank has been...
...Palestinian inhabitants, the West Bank is the heart of their ancient homeland and of what the U.N. had intended to be a Palestinian state. Resentment of the Israeli military occupation is the common denominator among a wide political spectrum of groups, ranging from supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization to monarchists loyal to Jordan's King Hussein to fundamentalist Muslims who advocate an Islamic state patterned after Iran. Since 1967, the Israelis have established some 100 settlements in the occupied territories that now house 30,000 Jewish settlers. Surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed men, the settlements...
...Israel's as his historic trip to Jerusalem in April and his unwavering support for the Jewish state since 1948 attest. He has stuck to those stands in spite of the terrorism of the last few months. But the President, on the other hand, also believes a Palestinian homeland is both right and necessary. One of his advisors explains: "In the long run, killing off the PLO is not going to help Israel. There will always be a Palestinian movement, each day, more and more frustrated. Better to maintain the PLO as a strictly political force with some sense...
...said, putting Lebanon back together should be only a start. "We must also move to resolve the root causes of conflict between Arabs and Israelis." He identified the most troublesome root as being the "homelessness of the Palestinian people," coupled with Israeli fear that fulfilling their demands for a homeland would give birth to a contiguous, Soviet-dominated terrorist nation bent on destruction of the Jewish state. Said Reagan: "The question now is how to reconcile Israel's legitimate security concerns with the legitimate rights of the Palestinians...