GreekIslandGirl wrote:kimon07 wrote:B25 wrote:As I have been saying all long, the EU is a spineless useless piece of crap. It is so obvious others also see it, here:
[i]Into the fifth decade of Turkish occupation of Cyprus, there is still no serious dictating by the EU to Turkey over what it must do about northern Cyprus. Turkey does not find itself under even the most remote international pressure finally to disengage from its illegal occupation of the northern part of Cyprus. And that is because for some inexplicable reason the EU does not consider it imperative that Turkey should disengage from the illegal occupation of an EU member state........
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opin ... 013/07/23/
My thoughts exactly. But the stance of the EU is not at all inexplicable. It is dictated by the logic of the "enormous Turkish market" and, of cource, the instructions of Uncle Sam.
But "Uncle Sam" would not allow the EU to boycott Israel if it could prevent it, surely?
Uncle Sam is totaly confused lately. How else can you explain their support to the Muslim Brotherhood? How can you explain asking Israel to appologize to Erdogan for the results which HIS provocation brought in the case of Mavi Marmara?
The EU has to decide if it's going to be directed purely by financial measures........
You mean guided by financial interestrs.
Anyway, I don't think the EU has decided on its own stance with Turkey yet......
Of course not. It is incapable of doing so because it is incapable of planning a common foreign policy for all its members.
But once it does, and if it wishes to boycott, we need to have our reasons for objecting to the Israeli boycott pretty straight.
I don't really think there is any need to connect the way the EU regards the CP with the way they regard the Palestinian problem or their relations with Israel. In our case it is a matter of the EU disregarding what Turkey is doing AGAINST THE EU itself. Turkeys occupation of Cyprus is occupation of EU territory. Simple as that, I think. And if the EU continues to disregard this aspect of the problem, then the EU is non existent as a political union. Can you imagine the USA disregarding in such a way a theoretical occupation of Alaska by Russia or Texas by Mexico?
The article is good at highlighting why Turkey's occupation of Cyprus is.......
The situation which exposes the nakedness of the "king" (the EU, the USA, the UK etc)