Occupying Power Quotes
- Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians… — Mohamed Elmasry
- Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped… — George H. W. Bush
- As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true. — Paul Bremer
- I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. — Jon Lee Anderson
- In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient… — Alfred Jodl
- We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the… — Jimmy Carter
- An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a… — Juan Cole