Word: existence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Jew, would like to ask the Zionists to explain in language Jackson can understand the difference between the P.L.O.'s denial of Israel's right to exist today and the denial by the Zionists of a similar right of Palestine prior...
...acrimonious debate, both Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman threatened to resign. The deeply divided Cabinet voted down Sharon's proposal, but approved a "compromise" to expand seven existing Israeli settlements by expropriating 1,000 acres of publicly held Arab land (that is, land in which proof of private ownership does not exist). That was not enough for the nationalistic Gush Emunim, which fanned out over the West Bank and set up 35 to 40 squatters' settlements in protest. Israeli troops evicted them and tore down their tents. But the Cabinet's move to expand the seven...
...abandonment, of sheer abhorrence he felt after his father's death. But eventually--or so he claims--he realizes, "I had forgotten I loved him, mostly, and mostly now I missed him." Though it seems more likely that he did not forget his love, that this love never existed, Geoffrey's claim must be respected. Wolff writes to a Mr. Joseph, his Choate headmaster, that his father was "a bad man and a good father," and Joseph corrects him, "Don't ever again say your father was a bad man. There are no bad men." Certainly Wolff's description...
...KIRKLAND DID EXIST, he'd had died of exhaustion long ago. Halfway through the movie, you're overwhelmed by the feeling that he should go into another field. Any field. Jewison said the cases in the movie are all based on actual incidents, a believable fact. But if the cases are true, they couldn't all be taken by the same lawyer--no one could handle a caseload like Kirkland...
...conflicts did not always exist for Rosa. Since childhood, she has routinely subordinated her life to what she calls the Future--the utopia of a South Africa without apartheid or capitalism. Her parents ask her for sacrifices as calmly as one would ask for directions. Rosa fakes a romance with a political prisoner to smuggle messages, hides excruciating cramps from her first period to bring her mother a quilt in prison, watches her parents and her brother die stoically...