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They erred gravely – and this is less often recognized – in discouraging the moderate Palestinian middle class, many of whom have quit the occupied territories, leaving behind a generation of young, ignorant, hungry, and angry warriors.
Otherwise, Abbas will be left with no alternative but to follow the advice of a leading Palestinian professor, Ali Jirbawi, who suggested simply that Abbas should dissolve the Palestinian Authority and return power to the Israelis, who remain legally and practically responsible for the areas they occupied in 1967.
NATO forced Serb forces to withdraw in June 1999, and international peacekeepers, under NATO’s leadership, occupied Kosovo.
Indeed, with banks failing to impose hard budget constraints on financially unsustainable businesses, and with the planning system incapable of imposing alternative effective discipline, China is already awash with apartment blocks in third-tier cities which will never be occupied, and with huge overcapacity in heavy industry.
Turkey’s immediate neighborhood occupied the top spot on the global policy agenda in 2012, and will continue to so in 2013.
If Israel refused to leave the occupied territories in the past, how can it be expected to do so now, when the Islamic State is creeping toward the border?
It was right to attack the occupied city of Mosul, but it was wrong to reduce the city to dust.
All occupied European societies were complicit to some degree in the Nazi effort to destroy the Jews.
Likewise, the percentage of seats on corporate boards occupied by women appears to have stalled at just over 17%.
For example, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan broke with tradition by displaying a critical attitude toward Israel’s more hawkish policies in the occupied territories, and did so without severing diplomatic relations with Israel.
Russia is one of the few countries with which Japan never signed a peace treaty after 1945, because in the war’s final days, the Soviet Union occupied four then-Japanese islands just north of Hokkaido, the country’s northernmost main island.
The Arab position has traditionally been that Israel cannot be offered the fruits of peace, such as recognition and normal relations, before it has paid its full territorial price – that is, a complete withdrawal from occupied Arab lands and the creation of a Palestinian state.
When Germany was occupied, the old regime's defeat was total, utterly beyond dispute.
While Iraqis may be pleased to be rid of a murderous regime, they had little time to get accustomed to the notion of being an occupied country.
The US never occupied Afghanistan, but Israel occupies Palestinian land.
Ending International OccupationTo state the obvious, military/political occupations and international oversight of a country are never welcome to the people who are being occupied and/or overseen.
To see the resulting political terrain, imagine a two-by-two table, with the four quadrants occupied by Remainers and Budget Cutters;Remainers and Economic Expansionists;Brexiteers and Budget Cutters; and Brexiteers and Economic Expansionists.
Of course, there is much silent resentment about the enormous political and economic space occupied by the Pakistan military, and a danger of a backlash if the military does not learn to share more space with civil society.
Despite wars in Lebanon and Gaza, and the intifadas in the occupied West Bank, these parameters have proven surprisingly stable for decades, anchored by the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan and the Oslo accords with the Palestinians.
In exchange for giving back the occupied Golan Heights, Israel and the US will insist on the disarmament of Hezbollah.
Nowhere are the problems with this approach more apparent than in the attempt to plan urbanization, which entailed the construction of large new cities – complete with modern infrastructure and plentiful housing – that have yet to be occupied.
Sitting in the square became more than an act of defiance: in Spain, Greece, and in the Occupy Movements of the United States and the United Kingdom, the occupied zones became places where a new democratic society could be practiced, sometimes through the time-consuming General Assembly process of group decision-making.
Poland and Russia have invaded and occupied one another’s territory for centuries.
Netanyahu’s short-sighted reluctance to give up settlements and occupied territory threatens Israel’s long-term interest to reach a fair settlement with the Palestinians.
At the time of the Yugoslav war, the West not only occupied the moral high ground, but was also viewed as invincible, owing to its Cold War victory.
Instead, it wants a US president who is occupied largely with domestic issues, and is not much concerned with constraining China’s rise, as Barack Obama was.
Palestine romanticism glorifies the Palestinians as the victims of Israel’s rule, points to the treatment of Israeli Palestinians as at best second-class citizens, and cites the many incidents of oppression in the occupied territories, including the effects of Israel’s “security fence.”
The United Kingdom occupied a position of global economic leadership for more than a century.
A few years ago, their speaker occupied important positions within US diplomacy; he is now a key figure of the New York establishment.
Yet afew facts are incontestable:Srebrenica was a UN protected zone, a Muslim enclave in a Serb-held region;When the Bosnian Serbs, under General Ratko Mladic, occupied the town, the Dutch Battalion, though obviously outnumbered, did not oppose the military Serb action: such opposition was also not in its formal mandate -- after all, the Dutch were supposed to be "neutral";Dutch officers were present when the Serbs gathered together the Muslim civilian population of Srebrenica and separated the men from women and children, taking the men away; the Dutch did not object, nor did they try to confront the Serb forces with the idea that what they were doing is unacceptable;It is obvious that the Dutch Battalion could not militarily stop the Serbs from doing what they were doing; yet there are always other options besides shooting -- or washing your hands and doing nothing.
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