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...artists chose to focus on different aspects of life in the refugee camp, and the subject matter was charged in all three cases. Sabreen explained that she wanted to focus her pictures on women in the camp because, as she explained, a woman “faces terror and occupation??[but] she stays strong and resistant. She knows a day will come when this occupier will leave...
...can’t possibly allow smoking, because bar workers are economically coerced and must suffer under their employer’s terms. Unfortunately, scarcity is a rule on earth, and everyone who needs to work to live is similarly “economically coerced” into their occupation??and some into far more dangerous occupations like commercial fishing or mining. Bartenders and waiters, like fisherman, know the conditions of their employment—presuming that anyone competent enough to carry a dish can find an alternative job—and they take the job because...
...life of Ariel Sharon, who had for decades championed the establishment of Israeli settlements. As prime minister, Sharon’s decision to withdraw settlers completely from the Gaza Strip and from parts of the West Bank—even once using the politically charged word “occupation?? to describe the Israeli presence in some areas—represented a significant and welcome evolution in his philosophy. The decision was an act of political courage, made in the face of intense pressure both from the thousands of Israeli settlers being uprooted from Gaza and from...
While pundits and scholars continue to debate the political ramifications of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) has stepped back to examine another long-term consequence of the occupation??its impact on the health of Kuwaiti nationals who stayed in the country during the invasion...
Whatever the failures of America’s Iraqi occupation??and from Abu Ghraib to distorted intelligence, there have been more than a few—liberals have got to recognize what the voters already see: that those mistakes are a shade of pale next to the atrocities that preceded them...