by repulsewarrior » Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:19 pm
...he is not the leader i would like B25, and the choices are all poor representations as Statesman. If we had Statesmen, then you would see something quite different as a debate. As a Statesman, Anastasiades has made a few gaffs, like Macedonia, its true, these hurt him, and yet his ventures with Greece, Israel, and Egypt are notable progress in the relations the Eastern Med is aspiring to. Despite the meddling of Turkey, its isolation remains intact.
He is a sell-out i fear, too. Witness the haircut and the cave-in as his reaction to it, however we are still better off Economically speaking, do you think that Pap would have been as apt?
...indeed, if he had allowed 6oo Turkish troops to remain forever, it would have been another small compromise, but he didn't.
If you love Cyprus, Greek or Cypriot, then think. Turks are not your enemy, and they have the same enemy in "Turkishness". While Erdogan changes Turkey forever, Cypriots cannot sit idly by because his intentions include Cyprus. To him Cyprus is Turkey, and in his "new" Turkey a state where he is in total control. I say Turkey should be Cyprus, a state where there is tolerance, Liberty, beyond Freedom, and where Citizens respect and trust each other, as Individuals, despite being Persons as well (a BBF). We can fight Erdogan, new thinking is needed, who is the "other" when we think of ourselves and those not "us". Indeed, Cyprus is the key to an end to "Turkishness", but Turks need more than "Greekness" in Cyprus, they need the same realisation from Greeks, that they are not "Greeks", and that as Cypriots, Cyprus is "theirs'". They must defend each other without further distinction or discrimination, that they can do more together as one, against subjugation, and in particular against the subjugation Erdogan has in mind for them, against the extinction of what is, their ethnosphere.
...a fool would go north with the Flag of Greece, a hero would have the courage to go north to fly the Flag of Cyprus; both would be likely shot, but it is something to think about.
...and who would be shot for flying the Flag of Cyprus, anywhere, in Cyprus? Who would do the shooting? Also something to think about.
Malas had his chance, but there was no effort through AKEL to demonstrate through the Unions, north and south of the Green Line, support. Pap could not have done that, he has done nothing to make himself a superior rival as a candidate, or, as a President the mandate to speak for Cypriots having their support.