Occupation
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America’s troubling ties with Islamist rulers and groups were cemented in the 1980’s, when the Reagan administration used Islam as an ideological tool to spur armed resistance to the Soviet
occupation
of Afghanistan.
But war and
occupation
create innocent victims.
If we had cared about the Iraqi people, we should have had more troops available for the
occupation.
In Bouchareb’s film, for example, there is not a unified story of the
occupation
of Algeria, but many points of view that a young French teenager (or French-Algerian teenager) can witness and draw from.
And let the world take note that conditions are worse today than at any time since the
occupation
began.
In making its case, it can invoke accepted legal criteria like effective
occupation
or acquiescence.
We know also that this claim fluctuates in proportion to the amount of international pressure to stop settlement construction and end the
occupation
of Palestinian lands.
Once the security of the familiar world is challenged, and its inner sanctums have been invaded and shaken, a space may be cleared for
occupation.
Like existing castes, the new caste specializes in one occupation: political office.
The US should stay out of the business of invasion and
occupation.
In an age of nationalism and socially mobilized populations, foreign occupation, as Eisenhower wisely concluded in the 1950s, is bound to breed resentment.
Under Israeli occupation, obstacles hindering the normal development of tourism in Palestine have prevented thousands of people from experiencing what Bethlehem has to offer.
But the scars of
occupation
do not tell the whole story.
The spirit of hope is what keeps Bethlehem shining brightly, even in the darkness of
occupation.
The first test is obviously Ukraine, where Russia has endangered the security landscape of Eastern and Central Europe, first through its illegal
occupation
of Crimea and now through its overt and brazen effort to destabilize eastern Ukraine.
For example, the current Christian leadership is a political ally of Hezbollah, even though the former opposed and the latter favored Syria’s continuing
occupation
of Lebanon.
Wrong analogies have already led America to disaster in Iraq, which had nothing in common with Germany or Japan after World War II – the parallel that some in the Bush administration used in arguing that democracy could be made to sprout in former dictatorships through
occupation.
This suggests, first, that governments should avoid public comments describing the American presence as an
occupation
or as lacking legitimacy, lest they make it more likely that the US departs Iraq entirely and leaves the country and its people to a terrible fate.
Mahmoud Abbas – unanimously elected as Fatah’s leader and commander-in-chief – made clear that while all options remain available for ending the occupation, the preference is still negotiations.
In fact, the animosity ran so deep that when both countries were no longer communist, and Russia was looking to replace its November 7 Bolshevik Revolution holiday, it came up with November 4, the anniversary of the Russian boyars’ victory in 1612 over Polish King Sigismund’s short-lived
occupation
of Moscow.
In Palestine, for example, the Islamists triumphed over Fatah because of years of bad governance under the harsh conditions spawned by Israeli
occupation.
In my 2003 book The New Financial Order, I argued in favor of privately issued “livelihood insurance,” which protects against long-term loss of income and sets premiums on the basis of
occupation
and training.
The English, who escaped
occupation
by a hostile power, and still believe they won World War II alone (well, with a little help from the Yanks), still have a militaristic streak.
For more than 60 years, the two groups have managed to live together in an acceptable manner, confronting with relative dignity the inferno of terrorism and the
occupation
of the West Bank and Gaza strip.
Lebanon’s acceptance of cultural diversity and pluralism has enabled the country to emerge whole from 15 years of civil war, to withstand decades of Syrian and Israeli occupation, and finally to stand up to the Islamic State.
Part of the problem is Israel’s continuing
occupation
of the West Bank as well as a piece of southern Lebanon.
The key to oil security is peace, not military
occupation
and puppet regimes.
Israel will not be able to avoid territorial withdrawals to the 1967 borders by exercising its military might; the US will not be able to ensure oil security through continued military
occupation
in the Middle East; and terrorists will not be able to destroy Israel or foist their fundamentalist ideas by force on moderate societies.
Among the few who have been courageous enough to speak out are Palestinian journalists living under Israeli
occupation.
The agreement needs to be followed by an effort to end the economic and administrative siege of Palestine, as well as serious peace talks with Israel aimed at ending the 39-year
occupation
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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