You can't have occupation and human rights.
Interpretation
Occupation undermines the fundamental human rights of individuals.
This quote by Christopher Hitchens suggests that when a territory is occupied, the rights of the people in that territory are often violated. Occupation typically involves a power dynamic where the occupier enforces control over the local population, restricting their freedoms and denying them their basic rights, thereby indicating that genuine human rights cannot coexist with such a system of oppression.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech discussing the impacts of military occupation on civilian populations.
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
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Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
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