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The Zionist project of creating a Jewish state in Palestine entails a return of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland, a land in which Jews lived since biblical times and which the Diaspora never abandoned.
Cute puppies and kittens bought on impulse may be abandoned when they grow older and become less appealing.
Cats, whether abandoned or allowed outside, regularly kill birds and small mammals.
But the experiment was abandoned within a month: people have grown so accustomed to the convenience of copying messages to multiple recipients that walking to their desks is now an unfamiliar idea.
But much of the pharmaceutical industry has abandoned this pursuit.
So farmers abandoned their efforts to eliminate the moth.
Trichet even had to rescind the rate hike he had signaled for September, though he still claims the increase has been merely postponed, not abandoned.
Admittedly, the Zionist leaders never really abandoned wider territorial dreams; but they would never have considered delaying the establishment of the Jewish state for the sole reason that it would not have access to the Western Wall or the Temple Mount.
The current promised withdrawal does not mean it has abandoned that aim.
On the right, the Likud party, which Sharon abandoned to establish Kadima, did very poorly, partly because many conservative voters also deserted it for religious, immigrant, and other parties.
The Algerian TragedyEXETER – Commenting on the recent Algerian hostage crisis on an international news channel, one terrorism “expert” made a remarkable claim: “Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was founded because of the so-called Arab Spring, after we abandoned our Libyan ally [Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi].”
Part of the GSPC abandoned armed tactics and made peace with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime, which promised reconciliation, the release of political prisoners, investigations of more than 10,000 disappearances, social reintegration, political rights, and, most important, civilian control of the armed forces.
Researchers found that in Mexico, eight in ten court cases were abandoned.
Francois Mitterrand turned this situation around by not only striking an alliance with the Communist party (a deal by which the latter became permanently enfeebled), but also by introducing a (by now again abandoned) system of proportional representation, one which allowed the National Front to enter the political landscape of France in force.
As a result, investors have abandoned the idea that RMB appreciation is a one-way bet.
Unless we respond with strong governance and the necessary tools to enforce regulations, ruthless pirate fishing will continue with impunity, there will be no binding international safety standards for deep sea oil and gas drilling, and plastic pollution and abandoned fishing gear will continue to proliferate.
To some extent, Europe seems to have abandoned the Mediterranean’s southern shore, compensated in part by flows of economic aid from the Gulf countries.
With Bangladesh unable to pick up the slack, life-saving projects like ours will collapse; the long-term resources we have developed, from the insectarium to new diagnostic devices, will have to be abandoned; and the developing world’s poorest communities will suffer.
Over the last six months, the US has abandoned its four-decade-old policy of engagement with China, adopting a containment strategy instead.
In practice, the policy might be violated, just as the old Stability and Growth Pact was abandoned when France and Germany defied its rules and faced no penalties.
Much of America is in a nasty mood, and the language of compassion has more or less been abandoned.
American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.
Finally, a series of Western mistakes and misfortunes, a crisis in transatlantic relations, lack of leadership, and the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalism (in both the Middle East and Europe) have led Russian leaders to believe that the West is a sinking ship, to be abandoned as soon as possible.
Moreover, Israel has practically abandoned any hope of receiving agreed gas supplies from Egypt, and has not pressed its demand that Egypt block the passage of sophisticated weapons to Gaza.
Second, France, under its new center-left government, must demonstrate that the “European model” of a market economy coupled with strong social solidarity can be reformed and strengthened, rather than abandoned – not just in Europe’s more pragmatic north, but also in its more ideological south.
He appeared to have abandoned an active role in politics after his post was abolished in 1989.
So far, he has abandoned the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership – which his election opponent, Hillary Clinton, had also promised to do – and opened negotiations with Mexico and Canada to update the North American Free-Trade Agreement, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994.
So it is unfortunate that America abandoned the Kyoto process for combating global warming, instead of trying to move that process toward sensible market-based solutions and away from the regulatory mechanism beloved of bureaucrats everywhere.
But the victorious Allied powers later abandoned this promise, and the Kurdish people have lived under constant oppression ever since.
Throughout their long, tragic history, the Kurds have repeatedly been abandoned by the West, to its great shame.
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