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The campaign and its themes reflect an internal fight for control of the Gaza Strip and other PA-administered territories, and stresses Hamas’ determination not to be disarmed and to continue the “armed struggle” in the West Bank.
The world market is being re-divided – peacefully, because territories and markets are separated, so that no power occupies another power’s territory.
It is estimated that at least 83 countries and territories currently have fertility rates that are below the level needed to keep their population constant.
Indeed, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine suggest that Putin gathers territories; he does not give them up – at least not without getting something in return.
Such a scenario would reverse the gloomy demographic and economic trends in Russia’s eastern territories, and would strengthen Russia’s geopolitical position in the process.
Russia would maintain effective sovereignty over the eastern territories while creating a new platform for development.
His support for attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territories, which he argues is legitimate under international law, has earned him immense popularity among Palestinians, but also a sentence of five life terms plus 40 years in an Israeli prison.
Israel must freeze its settlement activity in the West Bank and stop constructing its barrier wall on Palestinian territories.
Given economic insecurity within China in the wake of the financial crisis and global recession, China’s government finds insecurity in neighbouring territories more threatening than ever.
At a stroke, the empire that had gobbled up Chinese territories for centuries vanished.
Two decades of natural decay and remediation measures mean that most territories originally deemed “contaminated” no longer merit that label.
Governments are right to worry about the fate of Chernobyl-affected territories, but the way forward will require fresh thinking and bold decisions, particularly a shift in priorities from paying paltry benefits to millions to targeted spending that helps to promote jobs and economic growth.
It has used that power, first, to stop NATO’s expansion into territories that Russia considers vital to its own security, thereby averting the large-scale war that expansion would inevitably have brought; and, second, to forestall yet another illegitimate Western effort to bring about regime change, this time in Syria (where Russia has demonstrated both military might and diplomatic prowess).
The cycle goes something like this: American or international pressure mounts on Israel to stop settlement activities in the occupied territories.
So long as Israeli soldiers control the occupied territories, the idea of a settlement freeze will not take root.
In fact, since the 1993 Oslo Accords the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied territories has doubled.
Unless and until Israel pays a heavy price for its illegal activities in the occupied territories, it is hard to imagine a successful peace process taking shape.
Most notably, in the South and East China Seas, China has been staking its claim to disputed island territories, deploying advanced military hardware, and aggressively patrolling an expanded security zone.
Talmon criticized the Israeli right’s belief that one major “event”would radically and permanently change the situation in Israel’s favor, and he repudiated the “religious sanction” used to justify unrealistic policies in the Occupied Territories.
A small country like Israel, lacking a serious demographic foundation or favorable geopolitical conditions, could never perpetuate its presence in occupied territories, Talmon argued.
The International Misrule of LawNEW DELHI – On the face of it, China’s recent declaration of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) extending to territories that it does not control has nothing in common with America’s arrest and strip-search of a New York-based Indian diplomat for allegedly underpaying a housekeeper she had brought with her from India.
China’s new ADIZ, while aimed at solidifying its claims to territories held by Japan and South Korea, is similarly provocative, because it extends to areas that China does not control, setting a dangerous precedent in international relations.
From a security standpoint, the occupied territories constituted critical terrain for defending Israel against an attack on its borders by Arab states’ armies.
Moreover, from a diplomatic standpoint, the territories were regarded as bargaining chips (“land for peace”) to be used in achieving a negotiated solution.
The strategy ran aground in 2000, when Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to give up almost all the occupied territories and accept a Palestinian state in exchange for real peace.
Sharon formulated the answer in 2004, concluding that Israel did not need the territories.
Arab states, preoccupied with other issues in the post-Cold War era, were less interested in the conflict, while the security situation in the territories themselves had become a problem.
Indeed, after many months of increasingly forceful military moves – most notably, the unilateral declaration of an air-defense identification zone covering a large swath of the South China Sea, including disputed territories – China’s ties with Japan reached an all-time low.
Such tensions could spill over and impede trade, tourism, and investment, especially if incidents occur between rival air or naval forces operating in close proximity over or around disputed waters and territories.
Given the new political realities in Egypt, Tunisia, and the Palestinian territories, as well as in Lebanon, Libya, and elsewhere, the more important of these actors are no longer secret or illegal organizations.
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