Maximus:
So are you saying that Israel and Jews don’t have a right to be there?
Jews have always lived in Palestine but they were a small minority. Until Zionism raised its ugly head all the religions lived relatively peacefully until it was obvious that the Zionists, spurred on by the Balfour Declaration decided to expand their land ownership. Even then in 1948 they owned less than 6%.
Was there an agreement? There was the Balfour Agreement but that was conditional on Israel being declared as the Jewish Homeland .....providing it did not affect the rights of those people who already lived there and they would be treated equally. The Zionists ignored that stipulation completely, it never figured in their game plan.
What I mean by the original state of affairs is the UN partition plan of 1947.
The UN for some reason decided that outside colonial powers would decide on who got what .....rather than the self determination of the population, but it was
NEVER implemented, as the Zionists had their own agenda, an agenda they had progressed with since the 1920’s. So the UN plan 181 plays little or no part in what happened.
The link I gave you shows Palestine prior to 1948. A diminishing Palestine up to 1967 and the fact that 98% of original Palestinian lands now are not only declared as the Jewish State of Israel but Palestinians have been almost completely dispossessed of their lands.
The Ground Zero of this conflict was the 14th May 1948 ...... that was the day Israel created itself as a sovereign State by unilateral declaration. The US recognised this declaration within minutes of the Israeli statement and have supported everything Israel has done ever since no matter what! Because Zionists dominate the US administration!
There are 89 Senators and members of Congress that are known to be dual US/Israeli citizens, that is a conservative figure. It is something these people do not want the Americans to pick up on. Joe Biden is a self declared Zionist and you don’t have to look too hard at the Trump administration to see the Israeli/Zionist influencers. As the saying goes “
You cannot serve two Masters!”
So there is little wonder there is conflict. Imagine 2½ times the population of Cyprus squeezed into Limassol, with electricity and water supplies controlled by The Turks and the Turks having Limassol in a total land/sea/air blockade. GC’s cannot move out of this area which is surrounded by walls 25ft high and watch towers every couple of hundred meters and citizens are shot at by Turkish soldiers every time they protest their plight and are arrested and imprisoned without trial. How do you think the Greek Cypriots would feel?
I am afraid that to believe Israel is Cyprus’ devoted and reliable ally is rather naive! If Erdogan made them an offer they couldn’t refuse they would dump the RoC without a second thought and the US/UK/EU would be right at their side.