Talk:Homeland
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Changed Taiwan to Tibet. There is a Taiwan independence movement, but the notion of Taiwan as a ethnic homeland isn't very strong. In fact supporters of Taiwan independence tend to regard Taiwan as a land of immigrants and try to stay away from the idea of ethnic nationalism because that is regarded as giving the PRC a claim over Taiwan and would also set up conflict between the different ethnicities within Taiwan, one of which contains large number of people who were not born in Taiwan.
Tibet is a better example.
Cunctator, thanks for pointing out this article.
In this context, a Palestinian homeland means that Arabs living in the region sometimes known as "Palestine" are looking for a country to belong to. Since no bordering Islamic country has shown any interest in letting them settle permanently, let alone become citizens, they must feel frustrated. Perhaps it is not politically expedient for them to criticize other Arabs; while no one seems to mind if they criticize Israel. The bad blood between Judaism and Islam goes back centuries, I guess.
If Jordan, et al., continue to refuse to help Arabs displaced by the establishment of Israel (54 years ago!), they can either:
- become Israeli citizens, as some agreed to do
- grab land in the Sinai or Jordan (e.g., the East Bank)
- keep trying to make the West Bank a homeland
- claim and try to get Israel as a homeland called "Palestine" (as their maps currently show it be)
- or a combination of #3 and #4
Or, they could stop trying to get a homeland and just live wherever they find themselves to be, under the governments currently in existence, as the Kurds and Bedouins are doing.
Ed Poor, Monday, April 8, 2002
- [Could have a whole section on aspirations to attain a homeland: Basque separatists, Israeli-Arab conflict, Tibet, Kurdistan.]
I removed the above from the article text, because comments like these don't belong there (and although I do agree with the comment, I'm not going to write that section right now) ~leif 01:47, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
