NEVERSAYNEVER wrote:Antifon , you are most certainly an interesting poster , you make a lot of sense , however you will I'm sure agree that the RoC has a lot of work to do in order to convince the T/Cs that they will not be treated as they once were , ie second class citizens with the Greek flag shoved at their faces.
What saddens me most is the treatment that our big boys are dishing out to foreign property investors. They , the investors , DO NOT TRUST the ROC , should the T/Cs do so !
Thousands of Brits paid good money for properties in Cyprus , properties that they now know they do not legally own in the absence of the deeds. The RoC must address this very serious problem that has damaged the good name of Cyprus , the culprits , or the con men , must be made accountable , brushing this blatant corruption under the carpet does not instill much confidence in anyone.
Which other, allow me to say western, country in the world do you know whose citizens wake up and until they go to sleep wonder when they will have peace of mind because of an illegal invasion/occupation/colonization that goes unpunished 37 years on? So much "wasted" energy by a bright and hardworking people [feel free to mock me for both these adjectives], energy which would otherwise be directed to solve normal problems that any society faces?
Whether we are tCypriots, or British or European or any one with a genuine and non-selfish interest in Cyprus, we must admit that the gCypriots, DESPITE THE CALAMITY, have managed to pull themselves out of the pit the TSK/Ergenekon put them and to make a success story. You may admire the Japanese, I know I do, in how the handle their CATASTROPHY, but let me tell you. What we Cypriots have achieved is no less of a success story, one that I will proudly be telling my grandchildren. But the final David Goliath battle has not been "fought" yet. So the story gets even better. Or so its should.
I do not want to bore you much more. My answer to you is that we must asap end this unhealthy situation. Furthermore, we must finally realize that the will of the tCypriots is irrelevant, hostage to propaganda, fear, outright lies, and to put it nicely, a thinking that is based on threats and "we dare you" mentality. Dare me for what? To want to go home to my town? To my business? To my home? What sort of logic is that? Certainly not European. Some may have forgotten that the towns they live belong to others, and they shameless display their pride on stolen mountains, but what they do not understand is that Cyprus has a claim to being European for the culture that these CYPRIOT "IDIOTS" managed to preserve through time. And our time goes way back into the past. It is something so strong and powerful that it can't ever be easily explained. I guess you can call it pride in one's heritage. And we will NEVER AGAIN place our future in the hands of an immature minority, whose misery to a very large extend is their own fault, who have been living under dictatorship for the last 40 years. A minority which, with such embarrassing honesty, we recently found out would have been invented had it not existed.
We cannot ever reason with tCypriots because their thinking seeks to preserve the ILL-THINKING of 1960 & the DIVISION of 1974. This is unacceptable.
If you are not a Cypriot, then please do take it from me: NEITHER WILL BE ACCEPTED. For the sake of all. And let me add: THE SOLUTION TO BE PROPOSED/OFFERED BY gCypriots will be fair. A lot fairer than what others dictated to us back in 1960 without any concern for the rights of a people who can TRACE THEIR UNINTERRUPTED PRESENCE on this land since the times of Praxandros and Kideas founded Keryneia.
Whether tCypriots will agree or not is IMMATERIAL. They don't/won't really have a choice. I know enough tCypriots, certainly not enough to suggest that I have carried out a scientific poll, but enough of them to understand the tCypriot heart. And I tell you with CONVICTION that a 1963 basis, adjusted for the EU reality, with common sense for the gradual and sensitive undoing of the results of the 1974 HEINOUS UNWARRANTED CRIME, WILL BE ACCEPTED BY AT LEAST 60% of the remaining tCYPRIOTS, if properly explained and presented to them, and by 80% of all tCypriots who live abroad. The latter will be a better indicator as the quality of the solution. The other 50% can take some time off to think about it, knowing that Cyprus will be here to embrace them.
Last, what will be offered to 65.000 or 90.000 or 120.000 tCypriots will be infinitely better than what 20 million of Kurds enjoy in Turkey. If we manage to make it a good solution here, then we will have helped Turks and Kurds make peace at home too. If tCypriots realize this soon enough they may be in a position to influence the quality of the solution. I know, however, that even they remain obstinate and immature to the end, the final solution offered will be a SOLID AND FAIR solution which I will again be proudly telling my grandchildren about how we went from division and lack of trust to the great EU state we will be.
WE HAVE LONG BEEN READY & WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO WAIT FOR tCYPRIOTS TO OWN UP TO THEIR PAST, FREE OF THE PROPAGANDA OF THE NATION WHICH WOULD HAVE INVENTED THEM HAD THEY NOT EXISTED.
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