71.  His family lives in a home provided by local officials to whom he feels he owes allegiance and whose vision of an independent state he has come to share.

72.  I promise you that we need serious work in order to build our national authority, and afterward, an independent state.

73.  However, Clinton was noncommittal on whether that move should result in Israel agreeing to the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

74.  However, Palestinians completely reject this idea, and say that unless they get an independent state there will never be peace.

75.  If an independent Palestinian state is formed within the five years allotted by Israeli-Palestinian agreements, then the PLO will be dissolved, Foutah said.

76.  If one belief binds all of the governments in this turbulent region, it is implacable opposition to the idea of an independent Kurdish state.

77.  In fact, he did not even repeat his often-stated call for Jerusalem to be the capital of his hoped-for independent state.

78.  In Israel, even dovish leaders like Justice Minister Yossi Beilin recoiled from the idea that the Palestinians might abandon the peace effort and proclaim an independent state.

79.  In the northern Basque region, which the rebels want to convert into an independent state, large crowds of protesters joined the march, calling the separatists assassins.

80.  In the first podium speech by a Palestinian during a General Assembly debate, Arafat asked for support for an independent state.