It’s an abomination, not a ‘revolutionary idea’
Source: in-cyprus.com
Thank goodness Nikos Christodoulides finally said it. I was beginning to worry that, with the government’s pro-American stance, we might have seen some positive statement about Donald Trump’s ‘ideas’ to resettle Palestinians in nice little houses far from their homeland. A ‘revolutionary idea’, as Netanyahu saw it, a ‘wonderful new Trump plan’.
When asked yesterday, the President stated (clearly) that “the Republic of Cyprus, always in line with the EU, stands against the displacement of Palestinians from their country.” Whether he personally stands against it, we don’t know, but the Republic of Cyprus does. And presumably not because they thought it through, but because they’re “always in line with the EU.”
If the EU hadn’t taken this position, might the Republic of Cyprus have thought differently? Small mercies. Because imagine if Trump suddenly decided to tackle the Cyprus problem and pitched his ‘revolutionary idea’ to move Greek Cypriots (perhaps Turkish Cypriots too) to Turkey’s vast territories, while he and Erdogan transform Cyprus into the Mediterranean’s Las Vegas. That’s how problems are solved in their grandiose minds.
Of course, without any sense of history, how could one understand what the devil happened in the Gaza Strip? Where two million people lived under blockade for 17 whole years before Israel’s “self-defence”, in a strip of land where 80% of the population depended on international aid to survive. Where nearly half the residents were children under 15. Where water was rationed daily by Israel, far below what they needed. Where electricity was available for just 3-4 hours a day.
Under these conditions, the Palestinians didn’t leave their land. They put down roots there, suffered more than most on this planet, but didn’t abandon it. Only to now watch a ‘world leader’ speak like a shallow charlatan, telling them he’ll move them to other countries, roots and all, and transform their land into the Middle East’s Riviera. And we have countless lightweight minds, even in occupied and threatened Cyprus, applauding him. Both him and Netanyahu.
They still haven’t grasped the simplest thing, neither of them. Despite the experience in so many other countries. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria… That they haven’t solved any terrorism problem with these methods. They’ve killed nearly 50,000 innocent civilians and levelled Gaza to eliminate terrorist Hamas. Did they eliminate it? How could they have when it still exists, holds hostages, and they’re negotiating with it? But history will one day answer the most important question:
Should an Israel that can send missiles with near-surgical precision (killing Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, military leader Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s Lebanon chief Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amin, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut) have needed to kill tens of thousands of children as self-defence for Hamas’s atrocity of 7th October 2023? Did they need to level the homes of millions to tell them today they have no homes and must be displaced elsewhere? Are these methods succeeding in dismantling terrorism, or achieving exactly the opposite? Because one thing is certain: from the rubble and deaths, other terrorists will emerge seeking revenge.
Trump’s answer came via Reuters from Shaban Shaqaleh, a 47-year-old Palestinian who returned to Gaza to find his home in ruins. Terrified by the destruction, repeated displacement and death, he said he had planned to leave to secure a safe future for his children. But when he heard Trump, he decided to stay. “After Trump’s remarks, I cancelled the idea. I fear leaving and never being able to come back. This is my homeland.”
How could an American who has mansions but no roots understand this?
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