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Putin has called Kyiv “the mother of all Russian cities.”Sevastopol, in turn, is a doubly heroic city: during the siege of the Crimean War in the nineteenth century and during World War II.
Another respected author, the 84-year-old Yu Ying-shih, is also under siege for his support of the Hong Kong protests.
Beyond the Nairobi MassacreNAIROBI – Kenya heaved a collective sigh of relief when the four-day siege at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall finally ended.
To the west, in Darfur, protesters burned government buildings in the provincial capital of Nyala while the siege in Nairobi played out.
The siege must be lifted.
But the siege was never intended to starve Gazans; as Dov Weissglass, a former aid to Ariel Sharon, famously observed, the aim was “to put the Palestinians on a diet.”
With chocolate and cardamom now allowed into Gaza, Israel is applying a “smarter” siege, which will keep Palestinians here isolated, poor, and aid-dependent, but not starving.
But Israel and Egypt – partners in the siege – turn a blind eye most of the time to tunnels (perhaps as many as a thousand) that snake under the Egyptian border at Rafah and bring in black-market goods, which Hamas then taxes.
You see some of the humanitarian problems stemming from the siege most clearly when visiting hospitals, as I did with the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, of which I am President.
What the Aleppo siege will do is clinch Syria’s place in history as, to borrow former US Secretary of State Warren Christopher’s phrase, another “problem from hell.”
Amazon, having swept away bookshops, is now laying siege to the rest of the retail sector.
The agreement needs to be followed by an effort to end the economic and administrative siege of Palestine, as well as serious peace talks with Israel aimed at ending the 39-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
This economic siege, zealously enforced even by Arab and Islamic banks, followed the new Hamas-led government’s refusal to accept the demand by the “quartet” – the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia – that it recognize Israel, accept all previous agreements with Israel, and renounce terrorism.
Israel is a small country living in a permanent state of siege, highly security-conscious and surrounded by forces hostile to it;India is a giant country whose borders are notoriously permeable, an open society known for its lax and easy-going ways.
The Assad government does not hesitate to fire on civilians, lay siege to cities, or shut off their electricity and water.
But is it realistic to expect a rally from a currency that has been under siege since its birth?
Through his visit to Jerusalem, Sadat shook away Israel’s siege mentality and gave psychological living space to an otherwise claustrophobic nation in the midst of a hostile Arab world.
Israel provides electricity, water, and passage to Gaza, but also maintains a siege intended to prevent imports of larger, more lethal weapons.
Israeli leaders were aware of Hamas’s buildup of medium-range missiles, mostly smuggled through Sinai in underground tunnels, but continue to argue that, absent the siege, Iran and others would supply more (and more sophisticated) weapons.
Egypt’s major obstacle is Hamas’s insistence on an end to the Israeli siege and targeted killings as part of a ceasefire agreement.
And in Iraq, Sunni Muslims feel under siege from the country’s majority and now ruling Shia.
The elder Assad’s approach was, if anything, more brutal than his son’s, as the survivors of his 1982 siege of the town of Hama, aimed at quelling an uprising by Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, can attest.
With Gaza suffering under a lengthy siege, Hamas leader Khalid Mashal said that there was no point in a new truce, since the old one had “failed to lift the siege on Gaza.”
Other leaders were quoted as saying that Hamas would “lift the siege by force.”
Today, liberal democratic values are once again under siege, and the path paved by Keynes and Roosevelt is still the only way out.
By contrast, India’s location next to the Af-Pak has left it far more vulnerable, and the country has since suffered a series of major attacks – from the assault on its parliament in December 2001 to the terrorist siege of Mumbai in 2008.
It could, it is true, tighten the existing siege on North Korea by cutting trade further and blocking energy supplies.
It is inconceivable, for example, that an Egyptian democracy, in which the Muslim Brotherhood would be a legitimate political force, would persist in Mubarak’s complicity with Israel’s siege of Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Israel’s Debacle at SeaHAIFA – Israel was dead wrong in launching an attack by naval commandos against a flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian activists who were making an attempt to break the Israeli-Egyptian siege of Gaza.
That long-term siege, put in place after Hamas assumed sole control of the government in Gaza – breaking with the Palestine National Authority in the process – is a humanitarian catastrophe and a grave moral error.
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