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Most people have forgotten that the Paris Protocols of April 1994 established a customs union between Israel and the occupied territories, with a joint Economic Council to adjudicate trade disputes.
Squares have been occupied all over the country, just as they have in Spain and Greece.
The difference is that the latter try to pioneer their own forms of participation and to develop new techniques of dialogue and democratic practice; this is what is happening in the occupied squares or through new forms of Internet activism.
A decisive US effort behind President Bush's initial call for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied territories could have worked.
By championing Russia’s military-industrial complex, Putin can keep the siloviki occupied and on his side.
US Marines repeatedly occupied Cuba thereafter, and Americans quickly took ownership of most of Cuba’s lucrative sugar plantations, the economic aim of America’s intervention.
But when demonstrators fulfilled their promise and evacuated occupied buildings, Yanukovych resorted to force in an effort to end the protests altogether.
They should do the same on the production side, where managerial positions are occupied almost exclusively by men, a disparity that reinforces the gender imbalance elsewhere in society.
Later that day, members of the BJL occupied the office of Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber, vowing not to leave until their demands were met.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s kleptocratic regime has sent troops into one former Soviet republic, Georgia; invaded and occupied part of a second, Ukraine; and harassed and tried to intimidate three others – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (all three of them NATO members).
Although lower house prices will make new homes more affordable, the stock of occupied homes will far exceed new purchases in the near term, so the negative-wealth effect will overwhelm the gains.
When Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom could take whatever measures were necessary to remove them.
Perhaps the most important factor has been the continuation – and, at times, acceleration – of Israeli settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territories.
But, 19 years later, the Washington-based Foundation for Middle East Peace reports that more Jewish settlements have been built in the occupied Palestinian territories since the Oslo Accords than before they were signed.
The Oslo Accords divided the occupied territories into three regions.
The Greek Cypriot example shows that it is simply not true that the occupied have no recourse other than violence and terrorism.
Syria’s behavior is closely related to its prospects for recovering its own occupied territory – the Golan Heights – and is clearly interested in a new peace process with Israel to achieve this national goal.
China alone currently invests more than $5 trillion each year, a significant proportion of which is wasted on the construction of apartment blocks which will never be occupied in cities which face static and eventually declining populations.
In 1945, when the Red Army occupied Romania, the Communist Party had no more than 1,000 members; in 1989, it had almost four million.
China also has started questioning Indian sovereignty over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, one-fifth of which it occupied following the Tibet annexation.
One group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – succeeded in attacking a number of military installations, including the army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi, and briefly occupied the district of Swat, only 60 miles from Islamabad, the capital.
The only question that Obama should ask Netanyahu is, When will Israel quit the occupied Palestinian territories?
Despite the Israeli wars on Lebanon and Gaza, Arabs offered normal relations with Israel once it quits the lands that it occupied in 1967.
Leaders of both major US parties have articulated a policy that calls for a viable, contiguous Palestinian state on the lands occupied in 1967.
There is no excuse why Palestinians living in either remaining sliver of Mandatory Palestine should be barred from traveling to the other part of the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Obama administration must seize the initiative and insist that Netanyahu unequivocally support Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories – the sine qua non for a two-state solution.
If you add the Palestinians’ first and second Intifada in the occupied territories, the total rises to nine.
The Solid but Regrettable Argument for Israel's Security FenceThe International Court of Justice has completed its hearings on the legality of the barrier Israel is building in the occupied West Bank.
But, because it runs partly through the West Bank and protects not only people living in Israel, but also the settlers in the occupied territories, Israel stands accused of an illegal "land grab."
At least until recently, the international community assumed this to be the likely reading of Article 49 because, in drafting the crimes subject to prosecution in the International Criminal Court, the concept of transfer was expanded to include the Occupying Power's "direct and indirect transfer" of its population into occupied territories.
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