Re: Iran launches massive missile/drone attack on Israel

 https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus49159-30.html#p941676

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...@Kiks: don't blame the system; America is, great.

And do not despair, remain a Patriot to the values it has evolved to, the Universal Principles on which such a notion of a Human race is founded upon. Indeed, you speak of Ignorance, the enemy within, a corrupted Leadership which does not have the courage to be by example entirely truthful; their words meaningless as a result, provoking in affect the same Hateful enterprise in kind. Reason is needed; the dogged recognition that denial is no solution: change includes better intentions from 'us' and "Them", blaming "Them" is not enough as a positive action, choosing one "side" or the "other" is as mistaken too.

...more than ever America needs Americans, not "Americans" but Citizens of the World.

Manifesto: for your consideration

 https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus16772-30.html

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Yes...this is the core: culture. In defence we strive in our daily lives to learn more about ourselves and our place in the society around us and its culture. Yet, beyond the isolation before the Modern Age the Individual was the Person. Today identities are far more complex because of our Communication skills, the velocity of Social-Exchange, and the demands of our Environment, which requires our inclusiveness at exponentially faster rates.

consider the situation of Palestinians at present who are effectively living in enclaves. forget the misery for a second and imagine, landwise not much change; but free movement association and expression three governments in Jerusalem with Arabs and Isrealis in a Bicommunal State much like what I am proposing for the consideration of the Cypriot people.

...and what is wrong with "enclaves" if in their pure geographic context they define "zonality" for people whose identitiy includes their Persons, as well as a self, defined by their Individual Rights as an equal.

particularly, National Assemblies oblige the majority ("Turkish" as well as "Greek") to provide the balance in their leadership which affords the demonstration of Good Faith, toward their own betterment with the recognition of those who are unlike them, but with their own special needs. The reciprocation of these efforts in the National Assemblies, I imagine will provide great margins of scale for them to refine a culture of their own, if their efforts of transparency provides to many other cultures a link to their own root by being Cypriot, especially if the State itself prospers by faciliting this exchange for us who are active in our Global 'mobility' as an inclusive People.

In any case, the State is free, from cultural bias, and in its Governance it is seen to have as a culture the counterbalncing of power, for all its citizens before any other interest.

Kombos: Cyprus ready for talks, Turkish side imposing conditions

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/04/11/kombos-cyprus-ready-for-talks-turkish-side-imposing-conditions/

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...and what is an equal to a Turkish Constituency but a Greek Constituency? And along with other Cypriot Constituencies representing themselves, as Persons demonstrating their Goodwill in goodfaith, as majorities providing for the special needs of the minorities that live among them as well; why not?

Indeed, in a Republic of Cyprus, Constitutionally reformed, that represents us as Individuals first without discrimination or distinction, 'we' could defend ourselves, our Human Rights, the Universal Principles on which they are based. And, at another level of government we may nurture the distinct identities which are this island's ethnosphere, in kindness. (What is a BBF?)

...what is lacking is the courage of our elites to "be" Cypriot, winning their power from Cypriots, artificially divided, as "Greeks" or "Turks". And, who (the People), despite the decades of "This", never vote overwhelmingly for "Greeks" or "Turks". Cypriots are badly represented as such. (This is worth thinking about.)

'We' have only to think about why Cyprus is not already "Theirs", seriously. Let us meet on our beaches as Cypriots to do what Cypriots do best, and eat souvla; who would be against that?

There is ‘room for hope’ on Cyprus problem

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/31/there-is-room-for-hope-on-cyprus-problem/

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...if Mdme. Kassianidou can sit at a meeting celebrating the TMT, it would be normal for her to be sitting at a function celebrating the same event for EOKA; that would make sense as a rule, and this is a sad absurdity, given our circumstances hypocrisy in short, representing Cypriots as their Deputy Minister of Culture.

...with what EOKA and the TMT became they leave 'us' very little to celebrate; "Greekness" and "Turkishness" are the Cypriots bane.

And it is an insult to Cypriots who gather together in mourning, who do not forget what lessons that should have been learned.

Along with these families, of those who were murdered or made to disappear at "their" bloody hands for "being" Cypriot, i/I choose to stand. How can a Cypriot choose differently?

...in my mind it is this we must not forget in overcoming our own Ignorance. "This" cannot stand. Indeed the Hopefulness comes from the People, not from the Leadership it seems.

...shame on the Republic and on the "other" republic who do not serve the rest of us: the larger half so to speak, the voters who for decades that have never voted overwhelmingly for "These" ideals.