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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 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
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