humanist wrote:Zocie Zocie Zoc, my friend am not sure if I should accept this post as legit or you having a sense of fun and sinicism because you would then be agreeing with the invasion and occupation of Cyprus.
ie the British decided that they wanted startegic place in the Mediteranian, The Cypriots refusing to give it to them so they create the Turkish invasion using the TC minority as excuse.
Welcome to the real world!
You see Humanist, you can scream all you like for a free Palestine, but that won't achieve much. You see, the Israelis didn't invade. They settled in a British colony, and were granted Statehood by the international community. A far cry from the sotuation in Cyprus. And who can deny their attachment to those very lands when some Spartans are still claiming an attachment to Istanbul and modern day Turkey?
And what do you mean by a free Palestine anyway? Does this mean a 2 State solution which was offered many times in the past, or should the Jews just pack up and leave altogether? And if they leave, where do they go?
And you hit the nail right on the head. You see, the division of Cyprus is OUR fault. It is the fault of people such as Makarios, Grivas, the Leftists who were too fucking stupid to allow the US to have bases on the island. The previous generation fucked up, the current generation is paying for the previous generations stupidity, as now, we don't have US bases, but we do have a whopping great big Turkish base covering a third of the island. Non alignment my arse! We got hurt by being non aligned. If we were a NATO nation, then the Russians may have at one point threatened us with nuclear annihilation, but our island would be whole today.
Way to go!
And welcome to reality!