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Word: homelands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...persecution and a Nazi Holocaust before the world even sympathized with them. Compared with the Jews, the Palestinians don't even know the meaning of persecution yet. Let them experience the centuries of exile that the Jews did. Then we'll discuss whether they should have a homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1980 | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...leader of the feminist movement in Taiwan, left the Law School for her homeland in 1978, and became an editor of Formosa in August...

Author: By Christopher R. Kelly, | Title: Taiwan Dissidents | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...other state in the world: defensible borders, historic borders, biblical borders, and now they want hydraulic borders. I say of Camp David, of autonomy, of self-rule, that we have rejected them. And we will continue to resist until we are able to live freely in our own homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Arafat: No to Autonomy | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

They speak with many accents but the message is the same, forceful and unrelenting in its demand for a homeland and desire for redress. Despite the handicap of being a people without a state, exiles scattered throughout the Middle East and even beyond, Palestinians as individuals have uncommonly excelled in the arts and literature, in business and the professions. Their political views vary, as do their opinions on the best way to achieve their goal of an independent state. But as a people they have managed to forge a special bond of community, rooted in an obsessive longing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Voices of Palestine | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

Hence Lars-Goren's dilemma: how to work for a presumed good (the liberation of his homeland) while being energetically assisted by the archetype of evil. This problem leads to further questions, most of them posed by Bishop Brask, an unscrupulous and despairing Swedish prelate. Could it be that "every thing's the work of the Devil"? What if "God himself is a Devil's lie"? Is the term might makes right "profoundly true? Suppose that there is in fact no good in the world except that which survives. " How is it possible to act according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Devil's Due | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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