Sentences with phrase «military occupation since»

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Israel has existed since 1948 but the Palestinians are still without a state with four million living under military occupation in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem and more than four million others living as refugees in countries as far apart as Lebanon and Brazil.

The Cyprus dispute, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue or Cyprus problem, is the ongoing issue of Turkish military invasion and occupation of the northern third of the island since 1974.

The island, once an 1850s military fort, is the site of the West Coast's first lighthouse (since replaced by the current lighthouse) and the birthplace of the Native American «Red Power» movement (sparked by an occupation of Alcatraz from 1969 - 1971).

Now we certainly need the military in all its facets, and the war economy does fund many workers, however, not since WWII have we seen such a post war economic and baby boom in this country; also with the pull backs in the Korean action, at the Peking river, we more than sealed our fate, needing to pull out of a country we did know eneough about geographically and we were flanked much like many of our wars and occupations; WWII was our last real success.