"To talk about human rights in the West Bank without talking about the Israeli occupation is like talking about human rights in France during World War II without talking about the German occupation," he said.
Some 13,000 troops are staying on as "trainers", just as thousands of western troops have been returning to Iraq for the war against Isis – the al-Qaida breakaway spawned by their own invasion and occupation – with talk of a major assault in the spring.
So it's encouraging to hear Peter Bowker (Occupation, Eric and Ernie) talking up the strangeness of his latest script.
What is left of the Malian Army, divided by a military coup, has made no move to dislodge them after five months of occupation, and a talked-about West African regional intervention has yet to coalesce.
Unlike other right-wing defenders of the occupation, Jeff Goldberg didn't just talk the talk.
Some of them talk of occupation.
He avoids talk of occupation, as does the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
And he told me that the real subject of the film would have been "foreign occupation, in order to talk at the same time about the American cultural occupation, the German occupation, all occupations, and why one country invades another".
How many registrars, let alone vice-chancellors, sit down on the floor with their students in tents and occupation sites and just talk, just listen?
Photograph: Katia Christodoulou Here's more details via Reuters: Asked whether forcing losses on depositors was compatible with their individual rights, Patsalides replied: "When you are dealing with forces of occupation, they don't talk about human rights".
