21. Christians and Muslims, laborers and professionals, all assailed the Israeli occupation of their town and predicted deepening alienation. 22. Clergy and city officials envisioned a renaissance after nearly three decades of Israeli occupation. 23. Compared to Palestinians under Israeli occupation, Golan Arabs seem less openly bitter, perhaps because they have long expected to someday return to Syrian control. 24. During the Israeli occupation he developed ways of treating children traumatized in the intifada. 25. Early on, the Palestinian Authority crushed the relatively free press that had existed under Israeli occupation. 26. Either way, the long Israeli occupation of the impoverished West Bank and Gaza has inspired millions of Muslims to read the Koran in the harshest possible light. 27. Even if Arafat agrees to enforce a cease-fire, he would have a hard time making it stick without visible progress toward ending Israeli occupation and achieving Palestinian statehood. 28. Elections could not be held under Israeli occupation, he added. 29. Ever since the Palestinian police quit several years ago in protest against the Israeli occupation, the stretch taxis and cars just stand and blare their Italian horns. 30. For months, both sides have prepared for the orderly transfer of power from Israeli military occupation to Palestinian authority. |