About 100 Israeli 12th graders, they informed us, had signed the 2008 Shministim letter, a document that spelled out their reasons for refusing military service including "Israeli 'defense' methods at checkpoints, 'targeted' killing, roads for Jews only, sieges, land seizure policy which annexes occupied territories into Israel and trampling on Palestinian human rights..
Israel, which annexed East Jerusalem after the 1967 war, rejects any division of the city.
On December 23 , 1958 the Eritrean flag was replaced by that of Ethiopia, which annexed the nation in 1962.
Spanish, the language of Chile, which annexed Easter Island in 1888, now prevails across much of the island.
Morocco, which annexed the Front in 1979, hopes to incorporate it as an autonomous province with its own regional government.
Damascus was the main immediate enemy, which annexed much of Israel's territory, exercised suzerainty over the rest, and exacted a heavy tribute from Judah.
After the second world war, America (which annexed it in 1898) weaned it off sugar-cane by offering open access to mainland markets and tax-free repatriation of profits.
But as its duration shows, the campaign is an uphill battle that has so far been won by Morocco, which annexed most of Western Sahara after the Spanish withdrawal in 1976.
Alsace, the most heavily Protestant region of France, has strong religious and linguistic ties to Germany, which annexed the territory in 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, and held it until after World War I. Nazism spread easily through the region in the late 1930's, and thousands of Alsatians joined the National Socialist Party when it was annexed for a second time, by Hitler, in 1940.
Al-Fujayrah has had a turbulent modern history, the central theme of which has been the power struggle between the sheikhdom of Al-Shāriqah, which annexed the area about 1850, and the sheikh of Al-Fujayrah and his allies, who desired independence.
The developments angered Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimea region.
