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Hezbollah, which led the armed struggle against Israeli occupation, was to disarm and re-invent itself as a political force, representing the Shiite community that was historically marginalized by Lebanon’s ruling Maronite, Sunni, and Druze elites.
The Hamas/Fatah face-off marks a dramatic shift in Palestinian politics, whose top priorities until now has been an end to the Israeli
occupation
and the establishment of an independent state.
Under Israel’s occupation, and then with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994, the territories remained separated geographically, but not politically.
They believe that boosting allied forces will only increase the sense of
occupation
and give the Taliban more targets.
Allies are seen as an answer to America's twin credibility and legitimacy deficits in its
occupation
of Iraq.
The hope was clear: Israelis deserve security and a life without fear of suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism;Palestinians deserve dignity, an end to the Israeli occupation, sovereignty, and statehood.
As Goldstone's report makes clear:Both the Palestinians and the Israelis are legitimately angered at the lives that they are forced to lead: For the Palestinians, the anger about individual events – the civilian casualties, injuries and destruction in Gaza following from military attacks, the blockade, the continued construction of the Wall outside of the 1967 borders – feed into an underlying anger about the continuing Israeli occupation, its daily humiliations and their as-yet-unfulfilled right to self-determination.
The Axis powers, Germany and Italy, were welded into the Atlantic community through the Allied
occupation
and the Marshall Plan, and Spain agreed to close military cooperation with the U.S. three decades before being admitted to NATO.
One is the decline of the traditional working class and the growth of a more affluent middle class, underpinned by changes in
occupation
and housing.
Netanyahu evidently expects Israelis, and the world, to believe that if these sites were posting cat videos, the Palestinians would cease their agitation and submit quietly to
occupation.
Palestinians are indeed being provoked, but by Israeli actions – beginning with the perpetual encroachment on their rights that
occupation
entails.
And that anger is already intense, especially among young Palestinians living under Israeli
occupation.
Young Palestinians – the third generation to live under
occupation
– have run out of patience.
As citizens of a region that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation, we know all too well the danger of euphemism.
This may be more conducive to peace than trying to impose on them a hated
occupation
or an equally hated Shia hegemony.
The
occupation
of Palestinian territories has had terrible consequences, and it is necessary to end it.
What he doesn’t understand is that the memory of Auschwitz is also the memory of the Battle of Britain, the bombing of Dresden, the
occupation
of Paris, and the Warsaw uprising.
Iraq’s Bullets and BallotsWhen the Iraq war started in 2003, the Bush administration had very ambitious plans: as in post-1945 Germany and Japan, a long and peaceful
occupation
was envisaged, during which expanding oil production would assure rising prosperity as democratic structures were built piece by piece.
Indeed, Albert del Rosario, the foreign minister of the Philippines, which was under Japanese
occupation
during WWII, now strongly supports a re-armed Japan as a counterweight to China.
But both were relatively homogeneous societies with significant middle classes and no organized resistance to American
occupation.
Financing Israel’s
occupation
of Gaza and the West Bank served both objectives at the same time, at a cost to European taxpayers of several billion euros.
The idea that Europe can seduce the occupier into giving it a role in ending the
occupation
seems wrong-headed.
To change the Israeli-Palestinian dynamic, external actors now need to influence the political calculus inside Israel and Palestine by lowering the political cost of peace and raising the cost of
occupation
.
Making withdrawal a tolerable political option (or making
occupation
a more costly one) is needed to trigger a meaningful peace process.
Europe has already tried incentives for withdrawal, but that alone will not suffice; the cost of
occupation
must also be raised.
Instead, an
occupation
tax would target the settlers’ economy and the violation of Palestinians’ human rights.
The
occupation
tax should also include action aimed at ending the virtual impunity enjoyed by the Israel Defense Force.
IDF officials argue that some level of human rights violation is inevitable during occupation, and that the IDF’s record is not much worse than any other
occupation
army.
They are right; an
occupation
cannot be sustained without the systematic violation of human rights.
That is precisely why these violations must be made costly: to signal to Israeli voters that the cost of
occupation
is bound to rise.
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