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To: Brumar89 who wrote (56594)	11/12/2002 4:42:04 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What can I say, if they did not want the island divided, then they should probably not have tried to join Greece and elected ethnic cleansing of the Turkish minority as the means to get there. The Turkish army came in to protect the Turks and drew a line, which divided their people. So some Greek Cypriots lost their land? Well, I imagine so did quite a few Turkish Cypriots. This is what happens when the minorities of a place are turned towards eachother, and the brilliant idea to become part of the ethnic country of one of these minorities just might be the best way to do that. So you believe the Greek Cypriots could go into the Turkish Cypriot side and blow themselves up a la Palestine? That just shows you have never been there. >>I can understand how the ethnic Greeks feel. Oh yes, poor ethnic Greeks. They were misguided by their own Junta guys, believed in ENOSIS, the unison of Cyprus with motherland Greece, and started harassing the Turkish minority that that led to the division of their previously united and peaceful island. >>However, the Greek Cypriot and Palestinians have responded to their problem in very very different ways. Of course. Because not all problems are the same and equally devastating. If Greek Cypriots are not giving up their lives to "get back at" their "enemies" (even this is not true, by the way), it is because their "suffering" (i.e. some losing their homes) is not comparable to that of the Palestinians. Not, as you are trying to suggest, because they are such nice people that they wouldn't dream of hurting the Turks.