“Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.” MayMeanLawLandMilitaryInternationalRestaurantsIslamicTargetOccupationPalestinianPalestineIsraeliInternational LawDisco Author:Enver Masud
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.” ShouldHas BeensGovernmentMovingTurnsOpportunityCitiesMilitaryStyleShould HavePoliceOccupationInvestigationBostonShould Have BeenUnprecedentedBombingAmerican Cities Author:Ron Paul
“The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidWholeSchoolSpeakWhiteMilitaryArmyStructureThreatResistanceBehaveOccupationOfficersSouthernIndigenousCrushedHaitiNotoriousRankingFortsHaitianSpeaks French Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. They don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.” IfsAbleOrderMiddleMilitaryPositionVictimIsraelOilEastUpsetOccupationMiddle EastPalestinianSaudis Author:John Pilger
“First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking about currently. And we all know that occupations, in military terms, comes down basically to policing, so you have an army basically functioning as a police force in these foreign territories as part of foreign policy. I'm not knocking that down, I'm just observing.” KnowsFirstsPastForceTermTalkingMilitaryPolicyArmyPoliceIraqOccupationTerritoryAfghanistanForeign PolicyObservingKnockingPolice Force Author:Oren Moverman
“The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing.” WorldAbleFightingMilitaryExampleTradeDefinitionsTerrorismOccupationPalestinianPreciseIsraeliBombingWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Edward Said
“There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.” MenYearsSeemsOpportunityConditionsMilitaryLimitsPermanentOfficialsOccupationRoutineScope Author:John Monash
“It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.” ForcePartyMilitaryDefeatIsraelOccupationMilitary Force Author:Yasser Arafat
“In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.” Has BeensStatesWould BeOrderLostSituationPracticeLandMilitaryBoundariesResistanceOccupationPalestinianSovereignOngoingIsraeliAppropriationExpulsionThinkable Author:Judith Butler
“People who have been made stateless by military occupation are entitled to repatriation, and then the question is to which state, or to what polity or area? Those who have had their goods taken away are entitled to compensation of some kind. These are basic international laws.” PeopleKindHas BeensMadeStatesLawTakenMilitaryAreasInternationalGoodsOccupationEntitledCompensationInternational Law Author:Judith Butler
“Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.” MiddleMilitaryVictimIsraelEastOccupationMiddle EastPalestinian Author:John Pilger
“The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and they succeeded in turning it into one of the worst military disasters in history. They can't control it and it's almost impossible for them to get out for reasons you can't discuss in the United States because to discuss the reasons why they can't get out would be to concede the reasons why they invaded.” ShouldStatesReasonWould BeUnitedUnited StatesImpossibleWorstMilitaryIraqDisasterAdministrationReason WhyOccupationCatastropheUnimaginable Author:Noam Chomsky