Occupation
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But if Palestinians in Gaza demonstrate that they can rule themselves and be a good neighbor, a key justification for Israel’s continuing
occupation
elsewhere will weaken.
The “Polish underground State supervised by the Polish Government-in-Exile created a mechanism of systematic help and support to Jewish people, and its courts sentenced Poles for collaborating with German
occupation
authorities, including for denouncing Jews.”
However, indiscriminate use of force and continued
occupation
will never give Israel lasting security.
Now, with an ongoing refugee crisis, Russia’s
occupation
of eastern Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea, and the threat of British withdrawal from the European Union, 2016 may become, by necessity, another “year of Europe” for American diplomacy.
Africa's Odious DebtsOne side effect of the American/British
occupation
of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance: the debts taken on by odious regimes.
If Iraq's
occupation
gives impetus to legal challenges that free Africans from the burden of odious debts, then the war will have succeeded in dismantling at least one weapon of mass destruction.
This rules out our recognition – at any time and in any form – of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and
occupation
of Donbas.
In the ensuing decades, Palestinians tried virtually everything to escape Israel’s repressive
occupation
– from civil resistance to armed conflict to international diplomacy – to no avail.
But the bloodstained shambles of the US
occupation
led America to abandon the quest for democracy.
The unprecedented demonstrations against Syria’s
occupation
of Lebanon following the assassination of its former prime minister, Rafiq al-Hariri, show no signs of abating.
For that, he would also have to reverse or alter many policies that the US has pursued for decades – beginning with acceptance of Israel’s perpetual
occupation
of Palestinian territory, which has already gone on for nearly a half-century.
On November 3, after rebel forces killed nine people in a Druze village inside Syria, the Israeli military warned that it would intervene to prevent the
occupation
of the village.
The region’s instability can be traced back directly to the US-led invasion and
occupation
of Iraq in 2003.
It could have either avoided a monumental mistake, as Iraq has now proved to be, or it could have brought the United Nations on board from the outset, ensuring that military action, and the subsequent
occupation
and reconstruction of the country, would have broad multilateral support.
This arrangement – a legacy of the post-war US-led occupation, which was underpinned by a victor-loser mentality – must be changed to make the alliance sustainable.
But, despite US Secretary of State John Kerry’s admonition that Russia’s
occupation
of Crimea “is not twenty-first-century, G-8, major-nation behavior,” the United States and its allies are struggling to hold on to the postwar twentieth-century world.
In the wake of that war, and against the backdrop of anti-Muslim massacres enabled by Israel’s
occupation
forces, Iran supported the formation of the Shia-led Hezbollah to resist Israel’s
occupation
of southern Lebanon.
Following decades of Israeli
occupation
of Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 war, and with peace negotiations stalemated, Hamas defeated Fatah (the Palestine Liberation Organization’s political party) at the ballot box in the 2006 election for the Palestinian parliament.
Article 9 of Japan's constitution, which was adopted in 1947 under US occupation, prohibits the country from maintaining armed forces or using force to settle international conflicts.
There can no longer be any doubt that the
occupation
of Iraq was a huge strategic defeat for the US, because it ultimately served only to strengthen Iran.
Israel’s
occupation
of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasir Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet.
Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert and others pointed out years ago that Israel’s permanent
occupation
will be increasingly difficult as the relative number of Jewish citizens decreases demographically both within Israel and in Palestine.
But, following the overwhelming defeat of the overtly pro-Russia candidate Nino Burjanadze in the recent presidential election, the ruling Georgian Dream party decided to stay the Euro-Atlantic course, particularly as Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions remain under Russian
occupation.
So it is we Europeans who finance Russia’s wars in Ukraine and Syria, its military
occupation
of Crimea, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria, and the provocative flights of Russian military aircraft in the Baltic and elsewhere.
Europe’s Refugee AmnesiaBARCELONA – After World War I, when millions of European civilians were made refugees, forced out of their homelands by enemy
occupation
or deportation, an international regime was developed to coordinate effective responses and ease the suffering of those who had been uprooted.
So even a three-year time frame seems optimistic, for it assumes that within that period, the
occupation
will end, Iraqis will establish their own democratic government, and that political stability will be achieved.
Can the US sustain its
occupation
if it cannot provide food, health care, and other basic services to Iraq's people?
Moreover, it is alleged that the Saudi government has become preoccupied with appeasing America, despite the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada, and Israel’s ongoing
occupation
of Palestine.
The key question now is who should represent the regions under de facto Russian
occupation
as the constitutional process moves forward.
Little by little, the state of occupation, which should have been temporary, became a stable reality, and the policy of creating Israeli settlements in the heart of the Palestinian population strengthened the connection between Israel and the occupied territories.
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