Rather, the Goudougoudou, as the massive tremor is known to Haitians, unveiled and intensified the human suffering created by centuries of debt, occupation, grinding inequality, and state failure.
First, while Hamas, the militant Islamists who control Gaza, and Israel's ultra-rightists, who drive the settlement enterprise, are rising in popularity, the reason is not their ideologies, but young people's despair over the occupation's grinding violence.
An invasion that had been sold as a war of liberation had become a grinding occupation.
In Israel, the grinding occupation of southern Lebanon has long been unpopular and becomes even more so whenever young army conscripts are killed or wounded.
That forty-five years of grinding occupation may play a role in the depressed economy of Gaza City or in the modest enthusiasm for "Candide" and "Emile" in Jenin seemed not to enter Lieberman's smug analysis.
In the regression models, the covariates gum chewing, teeth grinding, occupation, age, race, BMI, sex, and alcohol consumption were all added to both urine and hair models.
During the Persian Gulf War (1990 91), Canada sent warships to join the international fleet gathered to reverse Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, and Canadian ground troops subsequently participated in the allied strike force.
But 14 months into the occupation, Sadr City is still characterized chiefly by grinding poverty, filth and ubiquitous posters of the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
On the night of 23 February, Missouri and Wisconsin turned their big guns on Kuwait's Faylaka Island to support the US-led coalition ground offensive to free Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation forces.
