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It did so in the 1930’s, when the franc zone& helped France to& survive& the Great Depression, and again during World War II, when the zone bankrolled General Charles de Gaulle’s& resistance to the German
occupation.
For Syria, a peace deal would also include an understanding that Israel’s
occupation
of the Golan Heights is to be settled by serious negotiation, not war.
Military
occupation
saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.
Without these, military victory and
occupation
quickly turn to ashes.
The recent deadly violence in Gaza is only the latest proof that people living under
occupation
and siege need a political horizon, and not simply a cease-fire: the case for an independent state of Palestine has never been so compelling as it is today.
It is worth pondering why a country with more military power than any other in human history, and that spends as much on its military as virtually the rest of the world combined, cannot bring security to a small country of 24 million people after more than three years of
occupation.
In Iraq alone, the administration misestimated the threat of WMD, failed to plan adequately for the occupation, and then proved unable to adjust quickly when things went wrong.
Syriza – which comprises a variety of left-wing groups, from those on the far-left to the more moderate social democrats – has roots in the Greek Communist Party, which played an important role in resisting German
occupation
during World War II.
Even through that long period of persecution, Greece’s far-left forces remained proud of their predecessors’ role in fighting the German-Italian-Bulgarian occupation, lauding their heroic efforts to save, even briefly, swathes of Greek territory from foreign exploitation.
Even today, Greek communists, including several Syriza cadres, portray themselves as the heirs of the left-wing struggle against the Nazi and fascist
occupation.
It is merely to point out what should be obvious: Israel’s efforts to find a unilateral solution to its security problems – whether occupation, withdrawal, or separation – have failed.
Unilateral
occupation
without commitment to a viable Palestinian state has produced only the intifada and suicide bombers.
Of course, Pakistan alone is responsible for the path it chooses, but it would not have so readily adopted its current course but for the tacit (and explicit) support that the US has given it, beginning in the 1980’s to counter the Soviet
occupation
of Afghanistan.
The War Against Iraqi WomenBAGHDAD – Iraqi women’s organizations and international observers point to an escalating war against women in Iraq, aided by the widespread chaos and lawlessness under the US
occupation.
The methods are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation: women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.
Unless the US does so, it must withdraw from Iraq, because the
occupation
would merely continue to sustain a breeding ground for violence against women.
Yet many Americans think that much of Europe's critique of Israeli policies expresses a zeal that cannot be explained simply by Europeans' renunciation of their own colonial past and thus their sensitivity to an Israeli
occupation
that looks like annexation.
Sixty Years of the Palestinian “Catastrophe”As the state of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinians remember the Nakbeh, or “catastrophe” – their story of dispossession, occupation, and statelessness.
But, for both sides, as well as external powers, the events of 1948 and what has followed – the
occupation
since 1967 of the remaining lands of historic Palestine – represents a tragic failure.
Israel is most at fault for this failure, owing to its continued military
occupation
and illegal settlements.
Cross-border attacks, hijackings, Arab and international diplomacy, secret talks, non-violent resistance, suicide bombings, rockets, regional Arab initiatives, international peace envoys: nothing has succeeded in ending the
occupation.
Hamas’s rejection of the Oslo Accords bore political fruit as it became increasingly clear to Palestinians that the handshakes on the White House lawn would not produce the coveted end to the Israeli occupation, or even of Israel’s illegal settlement activities.
Boots on the ground – “a foreign
occupation
force” – were expressly excluded.
China argues that the waters have been Chinese for a thousand years, but the likelier inspiration is more recent, reflecting Imperial Japan’s
occupation
of Taiwan until 1945.
Although there have been numerous initiatives to investigate its war guilt, especially its
occupation
of China, there has not yet been an official effort comparable to what the Germans undertook to take collective responsibility for their war crimes.
Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.
Israel's disengagement plan presents the evacuation of Gaza settlements as an end to 37 years of
occupation.
Radicals will remind Palestinians that these two concessions represent a US-Israeli imposition and an attempt to force the Palestinians to bow to the realities of
occupation
and dispossession.
The US wants to retain control of the occupation, but it wants others to receive the bullets now mowing down American soldiers.
UN soldiers should not bear the consequence of America's failure to manage the occupation, so US cries for financial help should fall on deaf ears.
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