Word: stateless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parts, one Israeli and the other Palestinian. In an attempt to stop the establishment of even a small Israeli state, the Palestinians, with the help of other Arab nations, initiated the war that eventually lost the Palestinians their land. With their subsequent incorporation into neighboring countries, the Palestinians became stateless and rightless...
...Reich foreign ministry and a member of Himmler's personal staff. Most significantly, he was the man who informed Adolf Eichmann, the official in charge of Jewish extermination, that there were no objections on the part of the German foreign ministry to the deportation of thousands of French and stateless Jews to Aushwitz. He was also the man who rejected Sweden's offer to accept Norwegian Jews about to be sent to Nazi death camps, and he refused to intervene on behalf of Catholic priests who were sent to the camps. After the war, the Baron was deservedly convicted...
Rick's Café Americain is the state of the stateless. Rick sets himself up as a kind of chieftain or caliph in his isolated, autonomous, amoral fiefdom, where he rules absolutely. Victor and Rick are splintered aspects, it may be, of the same man. Ultimately, the ego rises above mere selfish despair and selfish desire. It is reborn in sacrifice and community: "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world." Idealism and its bride ascend into heaven...
...that time, the intense, attractive scholar had fled the country. She left behind a series of frayed but unsevered connections: with Heidegger and with Germany. In Paris, and later in New York, she and her husband, Heinrich Blücher, lived as stateless persons, their brilliance appreciated only by a growing group of refugees. Blücher was never to regain his European status as orator and political activist. But he was merely a talent; his wife was a genius. Was America preoccupied by war? Never mind, she would observe and wait. Her time would come. Was English...
Global money flows freely, neatly skirting legal impediments of governments along the way and eventually arriving at its destination ready to do business. Some of the most successful repositories of this stateless money are the offshore branches of major U.S. banks in such out-of-the-way places as Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. In all, more than $1 trillion is held by banks and borrowers outside the U.S. in offshore banking bases set up by American and foreign banks...