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[miltiades]

You are in your 50s Erolz ?

I will be 50 in July this year.

Wonderful age 50 !!! I shall be 70 in May, but a very youthful 70 year old
Apart from my diabetes, prostate cancer, chronic sciatica, aches and pains Im in excellent health

[Cap]

Be pro-Cyprus, not anti greek or anti-turk.

[repulsewarrior]

Be pro-Cyprus, not anti greek or anti-turk.

...two thumbs up to that.

[Pyrpolizer]

+1

[GreekIslandGirl]

That's my motto - you can never be too pro-Cyprus or too pro-Greek!

Yet everyone calls this being blind to faults or wearing rose-tinted spectacles.

[GreekIslandGirl]

....I believe in a world where there will have been and will be those who have showed bravery and compassion and humanity to refugees, regardless of their own nationality,

And I believe these are just words to you as you didn't say any such thing about the brave Greek fisherman who saved all whom they saw regardless of whether they were Turks or Syrians or Afghans or whatever nationality. Instead, you made a politically loaded statement and threw in a lie too - and that suggests you wanted attention diverted away from their goodness and instead bring eyes back to the troubles of Greece.

You are now defending yourself and that is all you excel at.

[repulsewarrior]

...and as i say, there is a big difference between a Greek, and a "Greek", as much as there is a difference between "Turks" and Turks; in any case "Greeks" and "Turks" are very much alike.

[repulsewarrior]

...Schnauzer, what a joke; he votes, lol.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Very pleased to see Schnauzer back. Miss all his funny stories ....

[erolz66]

That's my motto - you can never be too pro-Cyprus or too pro-Greek!

Yet everyone calls this being blind to faults or wearing rose-tinted spectacles.

When being pro Cypriot or pro Greek or pro anything becomes fanaticism, when you become so excessive in your zeal for that thing, that you become incapable or unwilling to see or accept reality any more, that is as far as I am concerned a problem. When you show the same level of fanaticism in being anti something and especially anti whole groups of people based on their nationality, ethnicity or religion then such fanaticism becomes even more pernicious I believe.

There were no doubt Nazis that believed you could never be too pro Germany or too anti Jewish.