Such policies, if actively pursued when Trump gets into office in January, would coincide with the 50th anniversary of the occupation at a time when Palestinian faith in the peace process is at an all-time low.
But the occupation, at a time of British-backed Greek expansion in Anatolia, backfired: the real moral authority of the war victors over Turkey ebbed rapidly, as did the Turks' readiness to receive moral lessons from their foes.
But social media also plays a negative role, encouraging Palestinians to live in a virtual reality and romanticizing the idea of resisting occupation at a time when they lack a clear way forward.
On the other hand, Mr. Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was said to be sympathetic to the Pentagon view that it would be dangerous to dilute American authority over the occupation at a time of such difficult security conditions.
They're eating our jobs one occupation at a time, some say.
My main occupation at that time was as a cook in a grand private house in Chelsea.
Neither Beijing nor Taipei dispute that the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands — along with the entire island of Taiwan — were formally under Japanese occupation at the time.
"We were under military occupation at the time, as far as I see it, and so therefore I don't think those were terrorist attacks," Dani said.
Delany calls this "a circumstance very grievous to her," perhaps because professional singing was not an entirely respectable occupation at the time.
