Word: jaffa
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...General Assembly recommended partition of Palestine into two states: Jewish and Arab. So we now ask today: Where is the Arab state? The Palestinians do not belong to Jordan or Syria or Egypt. They belong to Haifa, Jaffa...
...embroidered with exotic scenes; many showed Prince William, in different hues, shapes, and sizes, marching to victory atop his white prancer. Biblical scenes like "Jacob's Dream" or "The Parting of the Red Sea" were common and there were a few uncommon banners like one showing "The Storming of Jaffa," a bizarre scene with British soldiers climbing the city's walls and staring into the suspended smoke of Turkish muskets...
...again one nation. Strange, is it not? The "Arab nation" has unity of religion, custom, language and heritage, with billions of excess dollars and millions of square miles of unused land, and the only place a Palestinian Arab can feel at home is in "the orange groves of Jaffa...
...people who have "no homeland, no flag and no address." But they do have a strong sense of nationhood. Even children who have never been there talk vividly about life in the Old City of Jerusalem or the beauty of Mount Carmel and the orange groves of Jaffa. In part, the Palestinians' collective memory of homeland and the dream of return are kept alive by a large body of nostalgic Arabic poetry, written by angry young lyricists who know both the harshness of Israeli prisons and the despair of life in refugee camps. Some of these Palestinian "songs...
Most of the noncoms and privates were reservists and glad to be done with war. "We may have to come back," said an Iraqi-born elevator technician from Jaffa who had been serving as a mortarman, "but in the meantime I want to live a little." Added a Tel Aviv housepainter: "We can manage out here at the front all right, but we have problems at home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when...