[alef] comparisons

All occupation regimes have a lot of common patterns 

(and also some uniqueness), especially when portions of 

occupied people exercise their right to oppose by violent 

resistance, and chain of violence from both sides tend to

 increase and to be brutal. It was the same with German 

occupation of Yugoslavia and Russia, the American 

in North-Vietnam and Iraq.

Our occupation of  the Palestinian differed mainly by 

our denial that it is occupation at all, its mixture 

with colonization (like Japanese occupation of Manchuria,

 for example) and its length (by making a temporary 

situation permanent). To these we may add the spatial 

proximity of the two parties and the internal brutalization

 of both the occupied and occupier societies.Wish to all a great academic year.Baruch.  -------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: http://list.haifa.ac.il/pipermail/alef/attachments/20041016/2a84bde3/attachment.htm