Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has endorsed a two state solution for Cyprus which would effectively legitimize the Turkish aggression and ethnic cleansing of the occupied territories. In the mindset of this typical Englishman recognition of the occupied territories would settle the problem. Never mind the Republic of Cyprus and the interests of the Greek Cypriots.
The ex Foreign Secretary presumes that the Greeks on Cyprus are privileged because the Republic of Cyprus remains internationally recognized while the Turkish occupation is not. The typical racist mentality is at work in Straw who does not see the ethnic cleansing of over 200,000 Greek Cypriots and the massacres that were perpetrated by Turkish forces in 1974.
The British have never recognized their crimes against humanity that began in 1955 when George Grivas and the heroes of EOKA began the struggle for the freedom of Cyprus by seeking to achieve union with Greece. It should be remembered that Greek and Turkish Cypriots lived peacefully together at the time. It was the British who invited Turkey to make a claim on Cyprus, and together with Ankara armed the Turkish Cypriots who attacked the Greek Cypriots. The Greek Cypriots were fighting against the British, not the Turkish Cypriots.
The British have left behind misery and misfortune wherever their former Empire reigned. The Middle East is a perfect example. The British had promised Palestine to both the Jews and the Arabs during the First World War. The British left behind misery in India and what later became Pakistan.
The British should have no base in Cyprus. Cyprus should address the issue of the British base. The British legacy in Cyprus is one of evil and misery. Both Greece and Cyprus should ensure that the British will not be permitted to take part in any negotiations that have to do with the future of Cyprus.
Finally, the British are not alone in their hatred of the Greeks. The Germans continue to arm Turkey as Ankara threatens Greece. The traditional blindness that Greeks have had toward Europe has contributed to the present problems that both Athens and Nicosia face. The West is no friend to Greece and Greeks everywhere must accept this reality.
Aside from the British military presence in Cyprus, Nicosia needs to address the unscrupulous English thieves who have settled in the occupied territories of Cyprus over the years and who reside in the homes of Greeks who were forced to flee from their homes. Both Greece and Cyprus should be sending a warning to the British of diplomatic consequences in the event of any recognition of the occupied territories whatsoever.
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Jack Straw has no respect in diplomatic circles regarding this topic, he has been pro Turkey for decades. He is no longer in government anyway.
What concerns me is the British have left a hideous legacy in Cyprus.
His stance may very well be shared by others in the British government.
The term ‘perfidious Albion’ was coined to describe duplicitous British foreign policy actions by their Foreign Ministry. The Brits are experts at subterfuge, they’ve been doing it a lot longer than our State Department. They have used their influence and offices to create a lot of problems for other nations and Cyprus was one of them. In this case Straw is probably being compensated by Turkey to advance their interests, he does nothing without something being in it for him. Like that creepy wife of Tony Blair who represented the Orams in their theft of a Greek Cypriots property in the north. Her ‘win’ in a British Court was overturned on appeal in an EU Court, but she lined her own pockets representing the Orams-a British family that had ‘bought’ the property in the north with a fake title deed. They think nothing of working against Justice if it advances their interests one iota. Slime is too good a word for them-and deep down inside they know it. All the money they earn advancing the interests of wrongdoers can’t assuage their consciences, they must be miserable people.