Controversial recording artist JOHNNY PUNISH has released “The Occupation“, a music video that chroncles the pain and sadness in the Holy Land under Occupation. 

The song was written and recorded by Johnny Punish in late 2009.  The video was also produced by Johnny Punish and dedicated to Rachel Corrie, the american hero who challenged the home bulldozers and demolitions against palestinian families and lost.  Run over by a sick and venal policy that corrupts the mind from common sense, Rachel lost her life at 23 years old. 

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories captured by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. They consist of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and much of the Golan Heights including the Shebaa Farms area claimed by Lebanon and, until 1982, the Sinai Peninsula. Israel also occupied part of Southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242 following the war in 1967, which called for “the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East” to be achieved by “the application of both the following principles: … Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict … Termination of all claims or states of belligerency” and respect for the right of every state in the area to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.

Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in 1982, as part of the 1979 Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty. Although Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in September 2005, it has held the territory under the blockade at various times since June 2007 and is considered the occupying power in the Gaza Strip by the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom and various human rights organizations. Israel is considered the current occupying power of the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.