69 million page views

Who is an occupier? Who is not?

Reader comment on item: More on Islamist Turkey Overreaching

Submitted by David Sussman (United States), Jul 24, 2010 at 11:33

The left wing do-gooders get themselves in a lather about the supposed Israeli occupation of "Palestine". The Palestinian position is that they refuse to become a state until they first occupy all of Palestine- that is to occupy Israel. Listed here are some "occupiers".

Spain occupies Basque land

China occupies Tibet

Hashemites occupy Palestine

Europeans occupy N. America

Spain occupies S. America

Portugese occupy Brazil

British occupy Australia

Russia occupies Chechnya and North Ossetia

Holland occupies Aruba

France occupies Quebec

U.S. occupies Guam

France occupies Martinique

U.S. occupies Puerto Rico

Turkey occupies part of Cyprus

Chinese occupy Formosa

Sinhalese occupy North Sri Lanka

England occupies Northern Ireland

Turkey occupies northern Cyprus

Christians occupy Hawaii

Submitting....

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".

<< Previous Comment      Next Comment >>

Reader comments (5) on this item

Title Commenter Date Thread
YOU'RE REALLY POLYMERIC! [25 words]SHAREENAMay 28, 2011 00:40185655
Who is an occupier? Who is not? [114 words]David SussmanJul 24, 2010 11:33175976
Turkey's just getting started [346 words]LogusJun 11, 2010 01:10174201
The sad truth [236 words]UgriJun 12, 2010 09:02174201
the end of the Armenian Genocide cover u p [33 words]mhwJun 8, 2010 14:33174061

Follow Daniel Pipes

Facebook   Twitter   RSS   Join Mailing List

All materials by Daniel Pipes on this site: © 1968-2024 Daniel Pipes. daniel.pipes@gmail.com and @DanielPipes

Support Daniel Pipes' work with a tax-deductible donation to the Middle East Forum.Daniel J. Pipes

(The MEF is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Tax-ID 23-774-9796, approved Apr. 27, 1998.

For more information, view our IRS letter of determination.)