This is a piece of spin to sugar-coat the on-going occupation.
The Syrians, on the other hand, have suffered one humiliating setback after another, from the failure to defeat Israel in 1948, to Israel's on-going occupation of the Golan Heights, which they took in 1967, to Israel's repeated forays into South Lebanon.
"There has been an oppressive occupation going on for 40 years, a people has been dispossessed".
Their focus, and that of the rest of the world, should be on stopping the real occupation that is going on in Gaza, that being the occupation of the land by Hamas, not Israel.
"Now, there is an occupation going on for decades and these people who are suffering this occupation are trying to resist, are trying to gain their rights," the official said.
Delegations from a lot of the occupations still going on will be there too, Patrick reports.
There's still an occupation going on at Bristol University.
But it is safe to say it has never seen anything quite like the occupation going on at Stille Strasse 10.
Israel is the place where occupation is still going on," she added.
He went on to say, "There are not many songs...talking about what's going on during eight years of occupation in Iraq.
At 4.30pm on Friday 14th June, students from Protect the Public University at the University of Warwick went into occupation of the university's Council Chamber.
