Word: israel
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...unwed mothers or the "politically unreliable"-they have watched one of the great migratory thrusts of modern history refuse them passage. Since 1947, about 1,500,000 European refugees have been resettled around the world, chiefly in the U.S. (470,000) and Australia (240,000), Canada (186,000), Israel (181,000) and Brazil (101,000). Another 196,000 have been integrated into booming postwar Europe, mostly in West Germany. The camp dweller who remains is weary and worn from the dreary treadmill of interviews, medical examinations and repeated turndowns. He is also well aware that a refugee's problems...
Town Without Trees. In the past decade, a million Arabs have huddled in camps in the Arab lands encircling Israel. They are, hostages to Arab governments' bitter reluctance to admit the existence of Israel or to prejudice the refugees' claim to what was once their homeland by the slightest gesture toward resettlement. And they are hostages also to the hard line of the Israeli government, which ingathers hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world but has no space to take back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle...