Part of the national homeland may be there too, and it may be governed by the 'wrong' nation.
Irredentism should not be confused with claims to overseas colonies, which are not generally considered part of the national homeland.
Even our right, so solemnly pledged, to a national homeland in Palestine is being betrayed.
'This will become the national homeland of the Jews.'
Opponents argued that it appeared to be an attempt to legitimize acts of terrorism carried out by groups fighting for a national homeland.
In its political expression it was a free and self-governing people and world community denying to itself the possession of a national homeland.
Are Americans -Jewish or otherwise - primitive and peasantlike if they feel at home in their national homeland?
They claim that a national homeland for Jews would have protected them from persecution.
Palestinian leaders have a history of self-inflicted wounds in their long struggle for a national homeland: acts that hurt their political cause.
This was to underscore their point that they are a diverse nation and that the solution to their problem is some form of national homeland.