This coming Wednesday, June the 11th, will be Bananiot's 4rth year as a member of the Cyprus Forum so as a tribute to his milestone I've put together a little list of selected portions of some of his first posts…
From his very first post Bananiot made a strong entry with this revelation…
Fri Jun 11, 2004
In my opinion Talat is a gifted politician…
A couple of days later, Turkey’s “destined” EU accession path and Cyprus’ doom was confirmed…
Sun Jun 13, 2004
Cyprus is simply not an issue for turkey's eyropean accession path.... Either way Cyprus is a loser. Partition is on our doorsteps. Papadopoulos (and Christofias) have signed the death certificate of our country.
On the same day we were informed that in the 60s the Greek Cypriots had a weapon of mass destruction…
Sun Jun 13, 2004
We were unlucky, at the most critical point of our history we had a president who is renoun for his anti-turk sentiments and who was the vice leader of Akritas plan that aimed at wiping out the Tcps in one night!
Within a couple of weeks Bananiot had the A-Plan all figured out…
Sat Jun 26, 2004
I thought the A plan was a masterpiece in the way it took into account the realities,...
But if the A-Plan was not to be used he had an even better masterpiece of his own…
Thu Jul 15, 2004
Even if a solution is found where the GC's are considered a minority and the TC's a majority, I would suggest that this is better than the consolidation of the present status quo.
Who would’ve guessed that Stalin would four years later become Bananiot’s hero…
Tue Feb 22, 2005
Papadopoulos is in the corner (along with his Stalinist partner Christofias)…
Thanks for your contributions Bananiot and looking forward to the next four...
Regards, GR.
