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  • Though we must continue to look “down” at Israel’s actions in the Occupied Territories, we must also start to look “up” at Israel’s role in what we call the Pacification Industry to understand why it receives the support from the US and other governments that it does …

    jeff halper interview excerpts 2008

  • That moment followed the conclusion of the so-called Pacification of Ghent in 1576.

    The Lost Moments of History Trevor-Roper, Hugh 1988

  • Deputies of all the seventeen provinces at once concluded an agreement, termed the Pacification of Ghent (1576), by which they mutually guaranteed resistance to the Spanish until the king should abolish the Inquisition and restore their old-time liberties.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • Its immediate result was a treaty, known as the Pacification of Ghent, between the provinces represented in the States General on the one hand and Holland and Zeeland on the other, for the purposes of union and of driving out the foreigner.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • It is possible that the martial provenance of this symposium (where the "misguided imperialist adventure" of his letter to the NYR has turned to mild "Pacification") might make clear the Professor's interest in a way that perhaps his letter does not.

    High Definitions 2009

  • The new governor, Don Juan, upset the calculations of Orange by accepting the "Pacification", and finally the Prince of Orange decided to proclaim Philip's deposition by the revolted provinces.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • 'Pacification' of Europe is threat to security, US tells Nato

    WN.com - Articles related to US warns of possible terror strikes on ships 2010

  • In 1957-1958, there was a guerilla movement against the Diem government, involving assassinations, expropriations, recruiting, shadow government, and other things characteristic of Mao's Phase I; see fall of South Vietnam would be due to conventional rather than guerilla warfare, some authors, such as Pacification

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In 1957-1958, there was a guerilla movement against the Diem government, involving assassinations, expropriations, recruiting, shadow government, and other things characteristic of Mao's Phase I; see fall of South Vietnam would be due to conventional rather than guerilla warfare, some authors, such as Pacification

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In 1957-1958, there was a guerilla movement against the Diem government, involving assassinations, expropriations, recruiting, shadow government, and other things characteristic of Mao's Phase I; see fall of South Vietnam would be due to conventional rather than guerilla warfare, some authors, such as Pacification

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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