Occupation
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When a war of salvation and survival turned into a war of conquest, occupation, and annexation, the international community recoiled and Israel went on the defensive.
The realization that withdrawal from populated areas, and thus an end to holding another people under permanent occupation, was necessary to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel clearly brought the two of you to the center of Israeli thinking.
While I believe that the occupation, rather than the reaction to it, is the main cause of our conflict, the unilateral tahdia (“declared calm”) decision by Palestinian militant groups has reduced anti-Israeli attacks mightily, which shows that Palestinians also realize the limits of their military actions.
To be sure, France has a tradition of independent-minded and pragmatic foreign policy, reflected in its opposition to the 2003 US-led invasion and
occupation
of Iraq.
During World War II, European monarchs kept a sense of hope and unity alive among their subjects under Nazi
occupation.
In 1990, Europeans and Americans joined forces to reverse Iraq’s invasion and
occupation
of Kuwait.
It is not impossible that with Hamas in the picture, an agreement could end the occupation, if not the conflict.
If a state fails to live up to its side of the bargain by sponsoring terrorism, either transferring or using weapons of mass destruction, or conducting genocide, then it forfeits the normal benefits of sovereignty and opens itself up to attack, removal, or
occupation.
This pressure at various times took the form of US, British, and French nuclear programs;NATO’s willingness to counter Warsaw Pact deployments of both conventional military and tactical nuclear forces; the decision to defend South Korea against the North’s aggression; the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to bleed Soviet
occupation
forces; and the decision to build a costly missile-defense system aimed both at negating the Soviet Union’s principal military investment and bankrupting its government.
But Ariel Sharon's government should not be allowed to use the Palestinians' utter failure at peaceful nation building as an alibi for continued
occupation.
The attacks against the US
occupation
are destroying the Iraqi economy as well as lives.
Other countries won't pay for America's
occupation
of Iraq.
The US invasion and
occupation
of Iraq, for example, created a major opening for Al Qaeda, whose affiliates now represent the Sunni struggle against the Shia-dominated government.
It might have been able to win over the Iraqi people in the early months of the occupation, but by now its cumulative mistakes may have doomed the campaign for hearts and minds to failure.
Fewer than 2% of East Jerusalem’s residents vote in municipal elections, as most believe that participating would lend legitimacy to the Israeli
occupation.
Of course, that is not how things have turned out: Palestinians have been living under Israeli
occupation
for 41 years.
The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative offers Israel a unique opportunity: full normalization of relations with 57 Arab and Muslim states in return for a comprehensive peace agreement, including an end to Israel’s
occupation
of Arab lands and a just and agreed upon solution for refugees.
Nor is Hezbollah keen to see the end of Israel’s
occupation
of the Sheba Farms on the Lebanon border undermine its claim to the formidable independent military force that it has built with Iranian and Syrian help.
From now on, the issue is no longer primarily one of territory, restitution, or
occupation.
Unfortunately, Japan moved onto militaristic imperialism in the 1930’s, which eventually led to its surrender and
occupation
in 1945.
The devastation caused by Israel’s periodic asymmetrical confrontations, combined with the continuing
occupation
of Palestinian lands and the ever-growing expansion of settlements, has fueled a growing campaign to undermine Israel’s legitimacy.
Koreans perceive in their dispute with Japan an echo of their country’s long and bitter
occupation
by Imperial Japan.
People’s social allegiances are divided further by religion, race, occupation, gender, and even income bracket.
However, Europeans consider the opinion recently expressed by Bush – that Palestinian democracy and not Israeli
occupation
of the West Bank is at the core of the problem – to be ill conceived.
It assures the three small Baltic countries that the nightmare of
occupation
by big neighbors (Hitler's Reich and Stalin's USSR), which they endured for half-a-century -- will not be repeated.
The government is irritated by US
occupation
forces' neglect of the northern Iraqi bases of the PKK, the Kurdish separatist insurgents who have fought a 15-year war against Turkey.
The US turned a blind eye to Turkey’s recent invasion and
occupation
of the Kurdish-held city of Afrin in northwest Syria, which led to the slaughter of more than 1,000 Kurds, including scores of civilians.
The United States opposed Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, but was slow to act, owing to its desire in the 1980s for Pakistani support in fighting the Soviet Union’s
occupation
of Afghanistan.
These religious parties, a coalition of which now heads the provincial government in the North West Frontier Province, were politically marginalized until given a central role by Pakistan's military dictator of the 1980's, General Zia ul Haq, who led Pakistan's covert intervention in the war against the Soviet
occupation
of Afghanistan.
There is a growing awareness in Israel that the current situation – one of open-ended Israeli
occupation
of lands mostly populated by Palestinians – is inconsistent with Israel’s determination to remain a secure, prosperous, Jewish, and democratic state.
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