occupier

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"By insisting to coordinate border movements and traffic with the occupier, which is Israel," argues Mekki, "[Egypt] is effectively recognising an occupation that is, by default, illegal and illegitimate."

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  1. One who occupies or takes possession, as of ownerless land.
  2. One who holds or is in actual possession; an occupant: as, houseowners and occupiers. No wrong was to be done to any existing occupiers. No right of property was to be violated. Froude, Cæsar, p. 191.
  3. One who uses, lays out, or employs that which is possessed; a trader or dealer. All their causes, differences, variances, controuersies, quarrels, and complaints, within any our realmes, dominions, & iurisdictions onely moued, and to be moued touching their marchandise, traffikes, and occupiers aforesaid. Hakluyt s Voyages, I. 269. Mercury, the master of merchants and occupiers. Holland, tr. of Plutarch's Morals, p. 692. (Encyc. Dict.)
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  • They absolve the aggressor and occupier, armed with the deadliest weapons of death and destruction, of responsibility, while blaming the victim, prisoner and occupied. —  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
  • The trial of an Iraqi journalist who gained cult status for throwing his shoes at former President Bush was adjourned until next month as supporters said he should be praised for standing up to the U.S. "occupier," not punished.
  • "By insisting to coordinate border movements and traffic with the occupier, which is Israel," argues Mekki, "[Egypt] is effectively recognising an occupation that is, by default, illegal and illegitimate." —  Al-Ahram Weekly Online
  • "God, unite us, return our riches, free the prisoners from the prisons, return sovereignty to our country ... make our country free from the occupier, and prevent the occupier from stealing our oil," Sadr said in a message read by a Sadr movement aide Asaad al-Nassiri. —  Reuters: Top News
  • This emergency shipment indicates that the occupier is demanding ever more weaponry in its futile war of massacres against the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance. —  Window Into Palestine
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