Word: lande
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Today the state of Israel turns 49 years old. Throughout the land of Israel there is singing and dancing. The country is one big party from the mountains of the north unto the desert of the south...
...first Jewish settlers of what was then Palestine came with only the clothes on their backs and a shovel in their hands. They transformed the land from swamps into pastures and made the deserts bloom. Later settlers came from all over the world, to hardship and trouble, to the knowledge that their sons would be required to serve in the army first for three years and then in the reserves for the next 30. They came with knowledge that Israel faces a threat to its existence daily, that no decade has passed without a war, and that their sons, their...
Forty nine years is not a long time. The Crusader occupation of the Holy Land lasted for longer. The United States, in what is still known as the New World, is more than four times as old. Many of our parents and certainly our grandparents were alive when there was no such thing as Israel. But now it is taken for granted that Israel exists. We cannot imagine a world without it. And how do the Jews of America view Israel? The answer to this question is really not clear. For what relevance does a country at least 6000 miles...
...selling my property." In part, the stance is just age-old miner's shrewdness: Don't sell your stake unless it's running out. But her rebuff also reflects a century of skirmishing between Western miners and the feds: "We Montanans feel pretty strongly about our love of the land," she says. "It is not American to be trying to wipe out selective private property...
...There is] no industry in Guatemala, so if you don't own land, you starve," Harbury said. "Guatemala has one of the highest infant mortality rates, second only to Haiti...