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[insan]

We deserve a Nobel for hypocrisy
By Loucas Charalambous

PRESIDENT Papadopoulos, speaking at the launch of the book, ‘The Legitimisation of the Cyprus State’ by P. Persianis – a title as absurd as his speech – said the following, according to the Cyprus News Agency:

“The Cypriot people, who for years lived with the dream of Enosis, found themselves with a constitution they did not want and had not asked for; nor had they been given the time to understand the benefits and advantages of this new constitution, which, while it was not union with Greece, was something better. It was the independence of all the people.”

This was the first time that a Cypriot politician has maintained that the Zurich constitution was a better outcome than Enosis! I have been studying the Cyprus problem for years and have read most of the books written about it. I have also been following the press from my early years. But I have never come across another Greek Cypriot politician supporting this ‘treacherous’ position. Not even politicians belonging to AKEL had ever dared to say that independence was better than Enosis.

Whoever had supported independence was always careful to describe it as the second-best solution.

Personally, I come from the Enosis camp. I also believed that union with Greece was the just solution for Cyprus. Today, I have no problem accepting that Enosis as an option is dead and buried (we killed it). It is a concept that has no meaning, given Greece’ and Cyprus’ entry into the EU, and Turkey’s own course towards the Union.
But Papadopoulos is once again writing history. He has become the first Cypriot politician who has publicly concluded that the Zurich agreement was better than Enosis. He also admitted that while he had opposed independence when it was being discussed in London, now that he had found his balance – between sentiment and rationality – he discovered that the Zurich agreement was a blessing. He did not explain of course, why he had set up a paramilitary organisation to fight it. Given that Papadopoulos needed 44 years to find his balance and declare the Zurich agreement a blessing, I expect that in 2049 we will be singing the praises of the Annan plan.

The colossal hypocrisy of our many super-patriots was also noteworthy. They swallowed the president’s ‘blasphemous’ statement without making a single comment. Enosis-fighters, such as Loukis Papaphilippou and Costis Hadjicostis, who normally use their TV stations to disparage unpatriotic views, said nothing. This is because now they have an entente cordiale with Papadopoulos and Christofias, as they are united in their efforts to kill off any possibility of a solution that would put at risk their media empires.
If it has been anyone else who had come up with such a view, they would have declared him a national traitor by now. Papaphilippou’s Antenna, for seven days running, had been inviting opponents of a solution to appear on the news and pillory Costas Themistocleous because he had the audacity to suggest that we should refer to the regime in the north as an illegal rather than a pseudo state. Even the associations of EOKA fighters, which usually take a public stand on everything, kept silent.
Must we conclude that they agree with Papadopoulos’ assertion that Zurich was better than Enosis, for which they claimed to have fought? Or perhaps now that they are preparing to collect 21,000 medals from the president for taking part in the struggle, they have chosen to keep on his good side and to hell with Enosis?
I will not ask my friend, agriculture minister, Timis Efthymiou, another fiery, Enosis supporter, what he thinks, because I do not want to put him in an awkward position. I do wonder sometimes, why there never has been a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy? We would have had dozens of Nobel laureates by now.


Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2005

[brother]

hahahaha....hahahahahah...hahahah

That was a good article, had me laughing hard especially the hypocrisy bit.

[Bananiot]

I see Loucas Charalambous enjoys quite a following in this forum. As I said before he is an outspoken critic of this government but he spares no one in his criticism. Many times he has criticised Anastasiades too, for his soft opposition to Papadopoulos on a number of issues, such as the forthcoming visit of DISI to Ankara, when people close to Papadopoulos went as far as to call the visit treachery.

[Piratis]

I see Loucas Charalambous enjoys quite a following in this forum.

If you check his "following" you will understand why he has it. He is apparently doing his job good. Americans might give him a rise soon.

Brother, if you want you can send some money to "Mr" Charalambous too (if you haven't done it already) I am sure he would appreciate some more "donations" for his very helpful contribution.

[magikthrill]

Pirati,

is what you are saying true? and by true i mean are there many circulated rumors since we cant know for sure. or are you just saying that cause you disagree w/ him?

[brother]

Piratis, the man speaks the truth and you label him an american sympathiser or on the take, you see your little mind cannot accept that your tassos stance is not exactly the best, but you keep making the slurs if they make you feel better.

[metecyp]

or are you just saying that cause you disagree w/ him?

He's just saying it because the author said something that he disagrees. But it's ok because according to some weird interpretations of democracy (which happens to exist in the south), labelling people as traitors, etc. is part of democracy.

[Piratis]

It is very well known that some journalists, especially from the politis and Cyprus mail newspapers receive funds from abroad. We live in Cyprus, a very small place, and such things can not be kept hidden.

If you notice what these people write you will see that their aim is not Papadopoulos or the government. Their aim is to hurt Republic of Cyprus as a whole and help Turkey and allies to achieve their aims in Cyprus.

The Americans have pured lots of dollars in Cyprus to achieve their aim, and it is inevitable that they would manage to buy some people.

In any case Cyprus is a democratic country and they can say whatever they want. But it is also good for us to keep in mind what the real source of the article is.

[insan]

It is very well known that some journalists, especially from the politis and Cyprus mail newspapers receive funds from abroad. We live in Cyprus, a very small place, and such things can not be kept hidden.

If you notice what these people write you will see that their aim is not Papadopoulos or the government. Their aim is to hurt Republic of Cyprus as a whole and help Turkey and allies to achieve their aims in Cyprus.

The Americans have pured lots of dollars in Cyprus to achieve their aim, and it is inevitable that they would manage to buy some people.

In any case Cyprus is a democratic country and they can say whatever they want. But it is also good for us to keep in mind what the real source of the article is.

If the case was clear as you claimed, why can't the so-called RoC sue them because of their violation of laws? The so-called RoC must have been a Banana Republic then? In purely GC dominated Banana RoC Americans can buy whomever they want to undermine the so-called RoC and Banana RoC's so-called laws don't work against the "traitors". This is what I understood from the things you said, Piratis.

[magikthrill]

insan, the "so-called" RoC, or internationally known the sole government of the island of Cyprus, cannot accuse someone to be a traitor just because they write stuff that undermines the country. that would be a violation of freedome of speech, which is a basic human right. you know like the right of return for refugees, and that kind of stuff.