In a splendid essay in the New Statesman, David Marquand tells us that the Welsh word for England means "the lost land" – lost to the Celts, that is, when the Anglo-Saxons drove them out.
And Indian tribes would regain land lost decades ago.
*Cantre'r Gwaelod, (The Drowned Hundred) a legendary land lost under Cardigan Bay.
Farms have been cleared, prime grazing land lost and livelihoods decimated – all in the name of economic and development progress.
Just as surely, Palestinians have the right to reclaim land lost in Israel through nearly six decades of war.
The show is a novel way for Hezbollah to promote its theme -- that all Arab efforts should be concentrated on reconquering land lost to Israel, especially Jerusalem.
Beginning about 1970, even before the casinos, the first wave of Indian lawyers were demanding more than a check for land lost in broken treaties.
More than two years ago, even Israel's supreme court ordered the state to re-route the fence and return much of the land lost by the village.
For many Palestinians, no issue generates such a gut-level response as talk of family land lost during the war, which the Arabs started at Israel's founding.
The eco-tourist industry, which is driven and grown by elephants, is more than capable of compensating for land lost to migratory corridors.
