Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...procedures. In addition, the government now intercepts virtually all invitations sent from Israel--a document required of all emigration applicants. The invitations must come from Israel because Jews are permitted to emigrate only by virtue of the fact that the Soviet government treats them as a national group whose homeland lies outside of Soviet borders...
This policy may in part be motivated by a perception among the leadership, reflected in the Soviet press, that the Jews are perceived as a foreign tribe, whose national homeland. Israel, not only lies outside of Soviet borders, but also is closely allied with the United States, the epitome of capitalism and thus an ideological enemy...
...separated. I have taken all three of my sons to a high point not far from here, where you can look out and see Palestine. I hold them in my arms, and tell them, 'My son, breathe deeply of that air. It is the air of your homeland, and never forget what it means to have seen it this way, and breathed of it, from a distance. One day we will walk back and life will again be peaceful...
DIED. Robert Havemann, 72, unbending East German pacifist leader who opposed first Hitler and then Communist rulers of his homeland; of heart and lung damage first inflicted when he was imprisoned by the Nazis; in Gruenheid, near East Berlin. An outstanding physical chemist, Havemann joined the Communist Party in 1932 to oppose the Nazis, then 25 years later became an increasingly angry critic of Communist totalitarianism, though he still considered himself a "true Marxist." Purged from the party in 1964, he was scorned as a "Socrates who spoils our youth" and held under house arrest from 1979 until his death...
...often hard, in the face of anti-Semitism and Israel's general unpopularity, for we Jews to keep emotional reactions from stilling our own ethical tradition, but the severity of Israel's position today demands that we be true, to our values. Israel is not only the Jewish homeland but also the realization of a collective Jewish consciousness and spirit. We must not allow that spirit to be obscured by policies born of chauvinism, prejudice and fear...