Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film footage showed weary, bedraggled refugees, some borne on stretchers, some wrapped in bandages, some hobbling along on crutches. Many were aged, others babes in arms. With the all too familiar misery of the homeless etched on their faces, the wretched bands made their way out of Viet Nam across the Nanhsi River into China. Elsewhere along the Sino-Vietnamese border, near Tunghsing, 52 escapees were fired on by Hanoi's troops as they tried to flee across the Gulf of Tonkin in a flotilla of tiny fishing boats...
...have been taken. The same military and psychological tolls that Feldstein describes as being suffered by kibbutzniks have also been endured on the Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological mechanisms have enabled the courageous, homeless Palestinians and war-stricken Lebanese to withstand such perpetual agony. Just as Iraelis try to forget the danger by placing their fate in God's will, so do victimized Arabs sing and pray to Allah...
...cited "the recent cowardly and unjustified attack by terrorists on innocent civilians in Israel," but he quickly added a corrective hint that Israel might have overreacted, since the raid, he said, "has resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and tens of thousands of people who are now homeless...
That problem is how to satisfy the Palestinian demand for some form of nationhood. They remain a homeless people, "the Jews of the Arab world." They have their freedom fighters: the fedayeen. Palestinian guerrillas divided into six major groups that form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee...
...bombing and occupying as much territory as they have, in killing over 700 and leaving another 100,000 homeless, the Israelis have gone beyond the point of understandable retaliation. The original question of whether a reprisal was justified becomes an irrelevant one--smashed to pieces by an invasion that raises far more serious questions about the future of peace efforts in the region...