Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state to visit Israel. "Those are the same words I spoke to the Knesset in April...And I say to you now. France's Arab policy will never be anti-Israel, just as France's Israeli policy will never be anti-Arab." Mitterrand called once again for a homeland for the Palestinians. "But the PLO must, above all else, recognize the right of Israel to exist within secure borders, in peace...
...P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were arranged "like a pleasant kidnaping," Stewart said, with a P.L.O. representative and armed guard appearing some time past midnight and whisking Stewart off into the darkness. Once at the meeting, Stewart would find Arafat's energy unflagging and "his determination to regain a homeland for his people absolute." He saw the P.L.O. leader as having "a shrewd talent for judging people, something that makes him a better politician and diplomat than military commander...
...gained fame in his homeland, and infamy in the U.S., as the clerical adviser of the militants who held 52 American hostages for 14 months in Iran. Now Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Mousavi Khoeyniha, 44, has been given another mandate: to export religious revolution to Saudi Arabia...
...there will suffer unrest. There will be destabilization in those countries. Moreover, the Palestinians will find a way to return [to Lebanon and to fight against Israel] across a number of fronts. Then perhaps the world will see that the only solution is to give the Palestinians their own homeland, to establish a Palestinian democratic state." Such a state, in Gaddafi's view, would not exist alongside Israel. It would supplant Israel...
American policymakers, for their part, see a new chance to use the leverage that the Beirut crisis has given them to prod both sides toward the solution of a larger Middle East problem: the status of the Palestinians, who yearn for a homeland in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under heavy pressure from Arabs and some Europeans, the U.S. is considering the possibility of negotiating directly with the P.L.O., in return for an open declaration by the P.L.O. that it recognizes Israel's right to exist as a state. The hope: that Prime Minister Menachem Begin...