Occupation
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With UN administrators still holding sway in Kosovo and Bosnia years after their savage wars ended, and with talk of a UN mission to replace the US
occupation
administration in Iraq, when should an international administration be terminated and oversight of a country returned to its citizens?
In the area of college education, a recent paper by Harvard’s David Deming, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence Katz concludes that in the US “for-profits appear to be at their best with well-defined programs of short duration that prepare students for a specific occupation.”
This was a major change from the 2003-2005 period, when Iraq’s Sunni neighbors, fearing the country’s new Shiite elite, actively opposed the US
occupation.
Even a major power like Russia faces punishing sanctions for refusing to end its
occupation
of a foreign land.
The foreign minister of the Philippines, which is also currently engaged in a heated territorial conflict with China, called on Japan to rearm itself to balance China militarily, notwithstanding his country’s bitter legacy of Japanese
occupation.
While it is true that Germany and Japan became democratic after American occupation, it required their total defeat in a devastating war, and a seven-year
occupation.
But, at least for America, perhaps the most important lesson of 9/11 is that US foreign policy should follow the counsel of President Dwight Eisenhower a half-century ago: Do not get involved in land wars of occupation, and focus on maintaining the strength of the American economy.
Moreover, Palestinians are not convinced that UN recognition will change their daily lives as long as the international community takes no action to end the Israeli
occupation
on the West Bank and the siege and blockade of Gaza.
Libya After QaddafiBENGHAZI – Middle Eastern autocrats routinely warn their people of rivers of blood, Western occupation, poverty, chaos, and Al Qaeda if their regimes are toppled.
It provided refuge to the Dalai Lama when he fled Chinese
occupation
of Tibet in 1959, granted asylum (and eventually Indian citizenship) to more than 110,000 Tibetan refugees, and permitted them to create a government-in-exile (albeit one that India does not recognize) in the picturesque Himalayan hill town of Dharamsala.
Only such an understanding can permit a start to the groundwork needed for a political resolution that can permanently end both the siege of Gaza and the
occupation
of Palestinian lands.
For starters, Ukraine is riven by deep-seated cultural tensions, stemming from its history of
occupation
by competing foreign powers.
But for years Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups have rejected the Oslo process, on the grounds that free elections under Israeli
occupation
would be absurd.
At the same time, no PLO official is likely to seek the presidency without Abbas’s approval, which he will withhold until a new mechanism for ending the
occupation
is found.
After they depart the scene, Palestinian leaders who were born under
occupation
and spent time in Israeli prisons will most likely fill the vacuum.
Whoever emerges on top will have to present an effective strategy to end four decades of military
occupation
and bring about a truly independent state that a majority of Palestinians can embrace.
During the German occupation, my father was also a heroic figure.
The US must leave Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby saving $150 billion per year for other purposes and reducing the tensions caused by military
occupation.
Indeed, in Kismayo, Kenyan officials have reverted to their default
occupation
– the pursuit of private profit.
The Chinese regard Japan’s seizure of Taiwan in 1895 and the ensuing 50-year
occupation
as one of the most humiliating events in the country’s modern history.
Ending the American
occupation
in Iraq and imposing an Arab-Israeli peace would help, but they are no panacea.
The resulting government will then ask the
occupation
troops to leave, say, within a year.
It would make the exit of
occupation
forces more complex and perhaps more drawn-out.
The US now has an opportunity to address the Palestinians' need to be free from military
occupation.
Netanyahu could not bring himself to admit the sins of occupation, or even to utter a minimal expression of empathy with the Palestinian tragedy of dispossession and dispersion.
Indeed, Netanyahu’s call for peace will remain hollow so long as he continues to view the solution to Israel’s legitimate security concerns as requiring continuous
occupation
of sizable portions of the future Palestinian state.
Russia’s illegal
occupation
of the south Kuril Islands began on August 18, 1945, three days after Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration (or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender), which ended the Pacific War.Stalin’s Red Army nonetheless invaded the Chishima Islands, and has occupied them, Southern Karafuto (or Southern Sakhalin), and the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and Habomai – which had never been part of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union at any point in history – ever since.
Indeed, the lower house of Russia's Duma passed a resolution earlier this year designating September 2 as the anniversary of the “real” end of World War II, effectively making it a day to commemorate the Soviet Union's victory over Japan – and thus an attempt to undermine Japan’s claim that the
occupation
of the islands came after WWII’s end.
By continuing to maintain its illegal
occupation
of Japanese territory, however, Russia precludes expansive Japanese involvement in this effort, effectively leaving the Chinese to dominate the region’s development.
Russia’s persistence in its self-defeating
occupation
is surprising.
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