Piratis wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:The Greeks did enough damage to CYPRUS and CYPRIOTS in 1974 and just look at the mess they are in now! If they cannot solve their own problems I would not trust any Greek Politician to Solve CYPRIOT Problems/ Papandreou as the PM of a foriegn country, namely Greece
can therefore keep his butt out of Cyprus.
Now go back to Lesbos!
PS who wears the Skirt in your family?
I am sure GreekIslandGirl is Cypriot, not from Lesbos. On the other hand you are a foreigner and I would suggest to follow your own advice and keep your butt out of Cyprus since our identity and our choices is none of your business.
Observations
1) Yes but I live here with the enemy only 50Km away over the mountains - do you?
What is more I want to continue living in the ROC not the rapidly failing Hellenic Republic.
2) If GreekIslandGirl is Cypriot then (except in her deluded dreams) she cannot be a Greek island Girl - according to one Greek lady I discussed this with even the Greeks do not consider the Cypriots as Greek but as uniquely Cypriot.
3) Why do you want to take on someone else's Identity, particularly when it is probably a romanticized version version of the actuality which modern thought suggests was probably invented largely by 19th Century British Academics who excessively glorified Greece to the detriment of other people. In any event what is wrong with a unique Cypriot identity, where Cyprus probably has a longer recorded history than Greece? In 1200 BC the Kings in Salamis (who were definitely not Greek) were exchanging letters with the the neighboring kinds of Ugarit and Egypt, and they had their own script.So The Mycenaean had Linear B but that was a probably a form of Linear A which the Cretans had probably made easier for them so they could understand it, and was principally used for clerical record keeping . Following the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation n 1200BC or so it was the Cypriots who probably gave the Greeks their new Alphabet, one possibly derived from the Semitic scripts in use at the time in Cyprus and the Levant.
Athens in the 7th to 4th century BC may well have had a collection of gifted philosophers but I suspect that for the majority of Athenians life would not be so pleasant, and I am damned sure that you would not be one of the philosophers, probably a slave.
4) I suspect that Any attempt at Enosis at anytime after about 1955 would in my view have resulted in partition, as there is no way Turkey would have accepted handing over of the entire Island to Greece - as the Turks have admitted they would have invaded even if there had been not T/C to protect.
I repeat that Enosis would have been a disaster for Cyprus, probably condemning to poverty and deprivation, useful to the Greeks only as military base, otherwise seen as a drain on Greek resources.
This is proven by events in 1974 when the next serious attempt at Enosis after 1963/4 resulted in the Turkish Invasion and partition,( It was only the hated Americans who stopped Turkey invading in 1963/4.)
It was however backstabbing traitors to the ROC like you who supported Enosis and still want to destroy the Republic that gave the Turks the excuse they needed. .
I suspect that if people like you had your way the Turks would by now have taken a lot more of the Island than the 37% they illegally hold..
Back to the other consequence of Enosis Wealth in the form of taxes would have flowed to Athens and no doubt less would have come back in Government spending. Just imagine the competition for investment in Roads hospitals, Schools, etc.where Paphos would not be competing against say Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca or Paralimini but against every similar town in Greece.
There would far fewer government jobs (perhaps the one advantage of Enosis). And by the same token there would be little to attract other businesses to keep head offices in Cyprus. All the best brains and many younger people would probably leave Cyprus for Athens, as that would be where the most best jobs would be, far more than move out now. Nicosia and LImassol would probably not be the modern relatively wealthy places they are now but decaying petty provincial towns:, and IMHO it would be people like you who would have condemned Cyprus to this, all because you want to associate yourself with the romanticized concept of an ancient Culture that has been dead for thosands of years.
Grow upm, get real, You are Cypriot, Enjoy!.
