Word: statehooder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them was limited, in the first decade especially, to the determined strengthening of Zionist control and the extension of Jewish landownership. The Israelis retained British Mandatory Emergency Regulations, the repressive laws of wartime, to deal with the Arab population--despite the Zionists' adamant opposition to those regulations imposed before statehood. These measures, however, made it possible to evict Arab farmers from their fields, to place unreasonable curfews on villages, to banish certain individuals, to place others under house arrest, and to jail still others without trial and often without any apparent reason...
...Middle East solution--but even if that is not forthcoming, there is much that the Israeli government and populace can do within Israel to defuse the threat of a hostile, unified Arab minority. As time passes, the romantic aura surrounding Israel has given way to the normal headaches of statehood: economic breakdowns, government corruption, social unrest, international disapprobation. With a dwindling immigration rate and increasing unrest among the Sephardic Jewish population, the last thing Israel needs is an antagonistic Arab minority. The official approach of suspicion and suppression, as well as the failure of officials to construct a positive, integrative...
...Washington for hearings on legislation to turn 45.6 million hectares (114 million acres) of federally owned lands-some 30% of Alaska's total area-into protected parklands. The first rumblings of the Alaska land war were heard in 1959, when the vast territory became a state. The Statehood Act allowed the state to select 41.6 million hectares (104 million acres) of Alaska's 150 million hectares (375 million acres) -an area the size of New England, New York and Pennsylvania-for economic development, but it ignored the claims of an estimated 77,000 native Alaskan Eskimos, Aleuts...
...minute they stood in solemn silence in memory of those who have died for the cause of Palestinian statehood. Then the delegates to the plenary session of the 178-member Palestinian National Council, which convened late last week in the Arab League's blue and green tiled headquarters in Cairo, got down to business. As the Palestinians' de facto parliament, the plenary was promising to be-as Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat had earlier described it-"one of the most important meetings in Palestinian history...
...things, are relative. Often an idea seems rather commonplace until you take a look at who it comes from, and where he or she said it. Like the idea to enlist women deacons for the Roman Catholic Church, which came from the Pope, not Daniel Berrigan. Or statehood for Puerto Rico, which could surpass Washington D.C. as a Democratic Party stronghold, which came, most recently, from then-President Ford...