51.   Hebron is the last West Bank city still under Israeli occupation, and tensions remained high there on Thursday in expectation of a withdrawal.

52.   Hizbullah is not believed to be connected to the similarly named group that has fought against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.

53.   How can Israeli occupation forces be redeployed before Palestinian elections, as the Oslo process requires, without exposing settlers to attack?

54.   Hezbollah has ratcheted up its attacks and proven a dogged and determined opposition to the Israeli occupation.

55.   Hezbollah is now cutting down Israeli occupation soldiers at the rate of three a week.

56.   However, continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories could complicate the task of Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is expected to leave Sunday for the Middle East.

57.   If Binyamin Netanyahu orders Israeli occupation soldiers out of southern Lebanon, the Hezbollah can be disarmed.

58.   In Gaza City, the only major Palestinian city not under Israeli occupation, there are new black and white posters on the walls.

59.   In the old days we would have talked about the Israeli occupation.

60.   In those years the Israeli occupation authorities tacitly backed Hamas as a counter to the power of Arafat, and what had been Gaza University was renamed Islamic University.