51.   Alyan works part-time at Bet Tselem, an Israeli group that monitors human rights in the occupied territories.

52.   Americans continue to view Israel favorably while they back the establishment of a Palestinian homeland in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

53.   An early agreement would also have left the occupied territories without the numerous Jewish settlements that make a permanent arrangement so difficult to negotiate now.

54.   And for much of Israel, away from the West Bank, the occupied territories and the embattled settlements, it is.

55.   And like the rest of East Jerusalem, in international law it is occupied territory.

56.   And Sharon was instrumental in the establishment of Jewish settlements on occupied territories, one of the central Palestinian grievances.

57.   Arafat could never deliver every armed faction once popular opinion in the occupied territories began to turn against Oslo.

58.   As the Israelis withdraw from the occupied territories and the Palestinians begin to govern themselves, Grossman finds himself ambivalent.

59.   At issue is whether the settlements violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids transferring populations in occupied territories.

60.   At the time, Russian forces controlled about half the republic, including Grozny, and the vote was held in the occupied territory only.