Sentences with phrase «as occupied territory»

Not primarily about migration, but a case arising out of the long - running conflict between Morocco, as occupying power, and the Western Sahara as occupied territory.

They see the settlements as illegal and East Jerusalem as occupied territory.

Not exact matches

It says: «As referred to in UN Security Council Resolutions 446 and 465, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

These are nothing but AIPAC required talking points and lend support to the notion, as Pat Buchanan so accurately noted, that Washington DC is indeed Israeli Occupied Territory.

The curtain rises upon two small kingdoms of kindred blood and speech, occupying the territory now known as Palestine: the Kingdom of Judah in the south, with its capital at Jerusalem, and the Kingdom of Israel (or of Ephraim) in the north, with its capital at Samaria.

Beyond that into the distance is the land known as the West Bank, the Occupied Territories, or simply Palestine.

It occupies a territory 150 miles long and 80 miles wide, about the size of the state of Vermont, and is in nearly the same latitude north of the equator as our state of Georgia.

The system is «designed to allow Israel to control every aspect of Palestinian life in the occupied territories while lowering Israel's military profile in order to give the impression to the outside world that what Palestinians refer to as «occupation» is merely proper administration, and that Israel has a «duty» to defend itself and the status quo, Halper says.

@Chad «ok, so you have given up on maintaining that Babylonians Romans, Persians, Ottomans ever had any «common practice of destroying the gods, and killing the religious followers of the conquered indigenous people (don't forget, Christianity arose as a sect of Judaism, in an occupied Roman territory (Judea).

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

Their life as an «odd sect» with the simplest of economic pursuits within occupied territory did not give occasion for such responsibility.

The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, also mentioned by Bartley, saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi occupied Hungary from the Holocaust by sheltering them in buildings designated as Swedish territory and by issuing them with protective passports.

The influx of cheap Arab labor from the occupied territories has undermined one of the most basic concepts of mainstream Zionism, avodah ivrit — the sacredness of Jewish labor, the idea that Jews must stop being middlemen, as they were so often forced to be in the Diaspora, and do their own dirty work.

The people in Palestine still occupied their own territory and continued to live by their own traditions; but for that very reason they were not obliged to cut themselves off so completely from the rest of the world as were the Jewish people later, when it became necessary for their self - preservation, exiled as they were from their land and scattered among the nations of the world.

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It has a long history of occupying and / or annexing territories where Slavs (especially Russian - speakers) live — and using the «Slavic - speaking» and «Russian - speaking» populations as an argument for the occupation and / or annexation.

Can the Palestinian experience in Israel and the Occupied Territories be described as Aparthied?

... The UK judges that the Palestinian Authority largely fulfils criteria for UN membership, including statehood as far as the reality of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories allows, but its ability to function effectively as a State would be impeded by that situation.

What the US is doing, beyond that, is recognizing the Israeli occupied East Jerusalem as Israeli territory.

He, however, stated government's resolve to secure the release of the Chibok girls and others who were forcefully abducted from their homes and communities, as well as retake the territories occupied by the terrorists.

The acting executive secretary added that the report did not state that Boko Haram insurgents still occupied territories in the North - East as at the time of consultation with stakeholders.

One thing is certain, regardless of how much infrastructure is built up along major waterways such as the Mississippi, they will periodically reclaim territory occupied by communities living along their riverbanks

Biologists also wanted the sterile coyotes to act as «placeholders» that would occupy territory until they were kicked out by a wolf.

The ancient Celts got their name from Greeks who used «Celt» as a label for barbarian outsiders — the diverse Celtic - speaking tribes who, starting in the late Bronze Age, occupied territory from Portugal to Turkey.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

The report says: «Principals judged student - related behaviours, such as truancy and skipping classes, to occupy their time and hinder instruction, particularly in the Northern Territory and in disadvantaged schools.»

There's little left to be said of the new Golf GTI that hasn't already been said many times elsewhere; it's the best all - around performance package available right now for around $ 30,000 or less, and I admit that wholeheartedly as an owner of competitive vehicle that occupies the same market territory.

Benchmark the Ford Fusion against comparable products from Toyota and Honda — Ford does, so we might as well, too — and it doesn't quite match: The Fusion is slotted between the Toyota Corolla and the Camry, and between the Honda Civic and Accord, occupying the market territory once held by the Nissan Altima before the Altima was redesigned in 2002 as a much bigger, nicer, pricier car.

However, about half of the territories occupied by Albanians (such as Kosova) were divided among Montenegro, Serbia and Greece.

A colony typically occupies and defends a specific territory where food and shelter are available, such as dumpsters or restaurants, beneath porches, or in abandoned buildings.Because a female cat can become pregnant as early as five months of age, the number of feral cats in a community can rapidly increase if cats aren't spayed or neutered.

In Argentina, the Scotia Sea is considered part of an area known as the Mar Argentino, and several territories claimed but not occupied by Argentina, such as South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, lie within this region.

Building upon Deluze and Guttari's proposition of the book as a space where ``... there are lines of articulation or segmentarity, strata and territories; but also lines of flight, movements of deterritorialization and destratification», Benedict encircles the gallery space with a single shelf — a ledge prepared to hold a multitude of «textbooks» which serve as a road maps for the sculptural assemblages occupying the gallery walls and floors.

From village to city, and then from city to the modern nation, the growth of civilisation has accompanied the desire to occupy territory as well as the struggle of spatial mastery.

In an abrupt about - turn, he revealed not pristine, sacred American nature, but the suburbs proliferating out of the cities; the landscape as increasingly occupied territory.

It was also a tour de force for the artist, whose work previously has largely occupied the territory of drawing installations, with sculpture as a secondary part of his production.

Again, we recognized a construction project as an opportunity for artistic inquiry and in 1992 staged a site - specific exhibition, Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory in the vacant building before its demolition.

Crossing into a territory already occupied by companies such as LegalZoom and RocketLawyer, Avvo announced today the launch of Avvo Legal Forms.

The UN's Fifth Committee will decide how much money is provided to finance the work of human rights experts who investigate human rights violations in Burundi, Iran, Syria, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Belarus as well as violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans persons.

As a result, the Act now prohibits Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and stateless persons residing in Canada from illegally exporting cultural property from an occupied territory of a State Party.

IFLR1000 is set to expand its offering with the launch of a new «deal database» that will extend its reach beyond its core directory into the territory occupied by league table providers such as Mergermarket, Dealogic, and Bloomberg.

The company signed an agreement with Crypto Technologies Ltd to set up a subsidiary in Northern Cyprus (the Turkish occupied part of the island), to be the sole distributor of its produces in the territory as well as Turkey itself.