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Hamas also faces pressure from the international community, which, despite supporting the Palestinians’ demand for an end to the Israeli siege and blockade, is adamant that Israel’s security concerns also be addressed.
Addressing the sense of injustice, siege, and alienation faced by young Muslims is not a victory for the extremists.
Of course, the West’s sense of invincibility was already under siege at home, exemplified in the proliferating political challenges to the establishment elites who have advanced the post-Cold War strategic agenda.
Since 2001, the Kirchners have ruled with a siege mentality.
Israel is a modern, technologically developed society, which has managed to preserve its democratic institutions under conditions of almost constant war and siege.
During the early stages of the Islamic State’s siege of the Kurdish town of Kobani, just across the border in Syria, Turkey seemed to be replicating the Soviet Union’s tactic during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, when Nazi German troops fought Polish resistance fighters: Let the belligerents exhaust each other as much as possible before intervening.
Yet when the country’s first and only democratically elected president beseeched India in 2012 to rescue him from the Islamist forces laying siege to his office, India looked the other way.
Instead, Israel should acknowledge Hamas’s right to govern, which means opening the borders (including the Rafah crossing to Egypt), lifting the siege, and allowing free movement of goods and people.
Russian officers, he reported, directly command large military operations in eastern Ukraine, including the siege and capture of the important transport center of Debaltseve in February.
In Ecuador, too, democratic institutions are under siege.
Such a siege strategy – waiting for Greece to run out of the money it needs to maintain the normal functions of government – now looks like the EU’s most promising technique to break Greek resistance.
For six hours, politicians and employees were held at gunpoint; one hostage, Assembly President Julio Borges, described the siege as evidence of the country’s descent into complete “anarchy.”
Those criteria must include the parties’ willingness to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel, starvation of populations under siege, and executions of war prisoners.
Moreover, young radicals go to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, or Kashmir rather than in their countries of origin, because they do not regard the Middle East as the heart of a Muslim civilization under siege by crusaders.
During the recent siege of the Legislative Palace, an officer of the National Guard assaulted Julio Borges, the president of the National Assembly – the only institution with any legitimacy left.
For four days and nights the siege continued, as Kay and his colleagues used satellite telephones to fax crucial documents to the West.
Fortunately, Ambassador Ekéus backed it and supported the inspectors during the siege.
Whereas 49% of Poles believe that the rule of law is under siege in Poland, 27% hold the opposite view, and 24% have no clear opinion.
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.
After all, it is much more difficult to make an argument for market economies when they are under siege.
Today’s marine environment is truly under siege.
More than 16 years after the US invaded Afghanistan, its capital Kabul has come under siege, exemplified by the recent terrorist attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel and the suicide bombing, using an explosives-laden ambulance, in the city center.
But, in fact, it is not really democracy that is presently under siege.
Many hospitals in Aleppo have had to close after being targeted during the siege.
Nanny’s small nephews died from hunger in Leningrad during the siege.
Economies are teetering, ecosystems are under siege, and inequality – within and between countries – is soaring.
Thinking about the hundreds of thousands of Sarajevans – the many who had been murdered and those facing starvation as a result of the continuing siege – I replied, “Shake their hands and let’s get this over with and go home.”
The siege of Sarajevo was lifted the next day.
The Revolutionary Ethics of Embryo ResearchWhat appeared to be the most momentous scientific advance of 2005 is currently under siege.
Yet siege warfare is being used with impunity: Amnesty International reports that more than 200 people have been killed by starvation, shelling, and a lack of medical supplies in Yarmouk, a district of Damascus, as President Bashar al-Assad’s government intentionally blocks life-saving aid.
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