miltiades wrote:Robin Hood wrote:Get Real,
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‘We'll "bury the hatchet" when our country is 100% liberated from all foreign vermin and not when you say so.......’
How conciliatory of you! With all due respects, neither I nor any foreigner has any ‘say so’ in Cypriot affairs’ and I don’t think your reference to them as ‘vermin’ reflects the opinion of most intelligent Cypriots. By your extremist rhetoric I assume you include people like me in your description who have bought homes on the Island (legitimately) and live here permanently, bring millions into the economy each year through our pensions but, just happen to be British, Russian, German etc. by birth?
Hate and bigotry is the breeding ground of extremism......................look at the Palestinian/Jewish conflict as an example! It has been going on for about 1500 years and still no end is in sight!
No single English / British person can be held responsible for events that occured 50 years ago. The British government of the time was the one accountable for its then foreign policy . It is a great shame that Britain still treats Cyprus in an unfavorable way as a result of its Foreign policies which lean towards support for the much larger and more powerful ally , Turkey.
Despite of the 1955 conflict the British people in general are not seen as
" enemies" of Cyprus bearing in mind the thoughtless 4 or 5 thousand who purchased G/C property in the occupied north.
I have posted on a number of occasions that my English wife who does not speak Greek has spent a great deal of time in Cyprus staying with relatives and over the years she never encountered animosity because of her Englishness .
On the matter of the memorial I'm afraid I have to agree with the majority view that the occupied part of Cyprus should never have been considered as a suitable site .
If only you were that understanding about Greece and the kalamarades Milt.
Noddy!
