In 2002, when Israel reoccupied the parts of the West Bank it had given up to the Palestinians, one son was called up during his engagement party and dispatched to the refugee camp at Jenin.
Ghettos, from those in West Belfast and the Bogside in Derry to small villages such as Carrickmore in Tyrone and Manorhamilton in South Armagh, have been reoccupied by local people.
Even before the bombing, the Israeli army had reoccupied Jenin and slapped a curfew on Qalqiliya.The greater fear especially among Palestinians ensnared in their increasingly isolated villages is that Israeli settlers will be given free rein to exact revenge.
The American message has been insistent: to the Arabs, act against the bombers: to Israel, withdraw from the recently reoccupied Palestinian cities, and do so now.
It requires the gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army from the recently reoccupied Palestinian cities, and the gradual resumption of the Palestinian Authority's policing duties, including the confiscation of illegal arms and the arrest of law breakers.Other moves, too, were in the air.
But since there were so few police, and NATO's soldiers were tied up protecting two road projects, the Taliban soon reoccupied much of the ground.There are big dangers in building up the "auxiliary" force.
The map proposed that Israel would withdraw from the West Bank cities it reoccupied after the latest intifada and freeze Jewish settlement.
Areas deemed to be safe are being reoccupied; others regarded as still vulnerable are abandoned.
The summit was called off.Drugs and rebelsAfter President Andres Pastrana ended abortive peace talks, Colombia's army reoccupied five towns in an enclave turned over to the FARC guerrillas three years ago.
ISRAEL'S security cabinet has decided to end gradually the daylight curfews in seven Palestinian cities which have been reoccupied by the army.
They looked on passively as Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk, republican Turkey's founder) and his troops routed the Greeks from Anatolia and reoccupied Smyrna, bent on revenge for Greek atrocities in the city and further east.The port was ransacked and looted for days.
