11. In legal terms, the government will thus be occupying private land illegally, which is extraordinary. 12. In early America, Manifest Destiny meant that God had chosen a race of people to occupy a land. 13. In past Arab summits, leaders have also demanded that Israel surrender occupied land in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and southern Lebanon. 14. In the New York area, almost all the land is occupied. 15. Israel is supposed to be withdrawing from occupied Palestinian lands under the Oslo peace accords. 16. Last week, the police shot at and fired tear gas at homesteaders occupying land near a highway in Santa Isabel do Ivai, in the state of Parana. 17. More land is now occupied by lawns than is given over to the cultivation of wheat, corn or tobacco. 18. Or Ethiopia may be shifting focus to two other border areas where it contends that Eritrean troops occupy Ethiopian land, the officials said. 19. Remember, in defiance of repeated American requests, Israeli troops still occupy land they were supposed to give to the Palestinians a year ago. 20. That land is now occupied by housing developments, a golf course, and an elementary school. |