For resistant cases, the body was dismembered and the pieces burned, mixed with water, and administered to family members as a cure.

Should settlers move to the West Bank or even stay in the vicinity of Gaza, their mere presence would further alter the contiguity of Palestinian lands.

It was also dismembering the West Bank, erecting obstacles and impediments and thereby denying the Palestinians the right to freedom of movement and the right to choose their place of residence.

These arrangements contributed to the dismemberment and segregation of Palestinian lands into small cantons (64 in the West Bank, 3 in the Gaza Strip).

We are determined to reinvigorate the intergovernmental organs of the United Nations and to adapt them to the needs of the twenty first century.

It has separated and isolated various parts of the occupied territories, killed Palestinians, jailed them, and denied them their inalienable rights, such as the right to self determination, political independence and the right of refugees to return.

Strongly condemns Israel, the occupying power , for continuing to build the expansionist wall on Palestinian territories, including the so called Jerusalem Envelope which is aimed at tearing apart al Quds and isolating its population.

Israel was continuing to construct the separation wall. The wall was 720 kilometres long and 90 per cent of it was inside the West Bank at a depth of up to 22 kilometres, dividing Palestinian towns and villages and making the life of their population almost impossible.

The de facto dismemberment of both countries central state authorities gave rise to a totally new player the Islamic State, which has announced the establishment of a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria, totally disregarding the old Sykes Picot arrangement.

In order to justify their authoritarian rule and camouflage from the Russian public their massive theft of the country s resources, the global kleptocrats have already convinced ordinary Russians that they are surrounded by ruthless enemies who are trying to dismember and destroy Russia.

The Kurds, under the yoke of Arabs, Turks, and Iranians, saw in the demise of Saddam Hussein s regime in Iraq and now see in the dismemberment of other Arab autocracies an opportunity to join the new Great Middle Eastern Game.

The resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan requires a more robust military response, but with the American army bogged down in Iraq and the Western allies reluctant to send additional troops, the country s dismemberment by local warlords is not a far fetched scenario.

The disintegration of Assad s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships, such as Josip Broz Tito s in Yugoslavia, or Hussein s in Iraq, tends to foment inter ethnic war and national dismemberment.

As the Syrian state melts away, the regime s inevitable collapse will lead to the country s permanent dismemberment, bringing a de facto Kurdish state in the northeast, an eastern autonomous enclave for the surviving Alawites, and a southern entity for the Druze.

The regime is now facing its moment of truth. The disintegration of Assad s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships, such as Josip Broz Tito s in Yugoslavia, or Hussein s in Iraq, tends to foment inter ethnic war and national dismemberment.