Posted on 01/16/2016 12:44:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
Cyprus no longer sees Israel as an aggressive country imposing its will by force on the Palestinians, but rather as a small nation fighting for survival in the face of much greater odds, Averof Neophytou, head of the country's center-right ruling party said on Monday. [...]
For years, he said, Cyprus had the "wrong perception of Israel," partly because it was for so long an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement, before joining the EU in 2004.
"For decades Israel was blamed for creating the instability in the region, but can anyone credibly blame Israel for the instability in Syria, the threat of Islamic State, the Arab Spring that turned into an Arab winter, or the chaos in Libya and Iraq?" he said. ...
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No dought the turn in turkey has changed thier minds and thier looking for friends and maybe protection
Current events are revealing that Israel is actually a bulwark of stability and order in a boiling stew of Islamic chaos and slaughter. If not for those evil Joos, the entire region would be littered with blood and severed heads - the ultimate realization of the demonic Dar al-Islam.
Averof Neophytou, head of the country's center-right ruling party said... Cyprus had the "wrong perception of Israel," partly because it was for so long an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement, before joining the EU in 2004.The so-called Non-Aligned Movement was full to the brim with client states of the Soviet Union and PRC, meaning, it wasn't non-aligned in the first place.
"For decades Israel was blamed for creating the instability in the region, but can anyone credibly blame Israel for the instability in Syria, the threat of Islamic State, the Arab Spring that turned into an Arab winter, or the chaos in Libya and Iraq?"...
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