ghetto

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The Gaza ghetto is a "concentration camp" - as Cardinal Renato Martino, the Vatican's justice and peace minister, termed it - intended to force Palestinians to accept a rump state with a few trappings of sovereignty, bisected by huge Jewish settlement blocs, severed from East Jerusalem, and without hope for returning anything but a miniscule percentage of refugees to their homeland.

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  1. noun A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination.
  2. noun An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
  3. noun Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: "trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” (Diane Weathers).

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  • The Gaza ghetto is a "concentration camp" - as Cardinal Renato Martino, the Vatican's justice and peace minister, termed it - intended to force Palestinians to accept a rump state with a few trappings of sovereignty, bisected by huge Jewish settlement blocs, severed from East Jerusalem, and without hope for returning anything but a miniscule percentage of refugees to their homeland. —  MRZine.org
  • Legislator, judge and executioner in the Ajami ghetto was the military commander; without his permission one could not enter or leave the ghetto, and rights to things like education and work were among those rights that Palestinians were denied. —  Anarkismo.net
  • Now, of course, Hamas is largely only in control of the beleaguered Gaza-which many refer to as "ghetto" - and the Palestinian statehood movement has been eviscerated, at least for now.
  • The fastest growing industry in the ghetto is the oldest profession on Earth:::::: The gods tell these Oakland pimps chilldhood prostitution is OK - Learn from the lies they tell other groups!!! —  Palms Out Sounds
  • "Fighter" -- ghetto fighter, World War II resistance fighter, 1956 Hungarian freedom fighter, anti-Taliban fighters in Afghanistan -- often carries positive connotations. —  CAMERA Snapshots
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  1. Italian, after Ghetto, island near Venice where Jews were made to live in the 16th century.
 

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