Say, folks. Let’s take a look at the ongoing peace talks between two sides of a country that’s been occupied for 35 years.
“We haven’t set a timeline,” Alexander Downer, the top U.N. official on the war-divided island, said in an interview with the AP.
“If you become a slave to a date, you may find that you don’t have a high quality agreement and then you’ll just have to start all over again sometime in the future.”
Really? You mean to say that there’s no pressure on Turkey and Greece to settle their differences over Cyprus and come to terms?
Downer said the two leaders should not worry about the “ebbs and flows of opinion every day” and keep talking.
“They don’t need to convince the public every day of the week,” he said. “You want it all put together in a week at the end of 40 or 50 years? … People who think that don’t know the Cyprus problem.”
Thought experiment time! Let’s substitute “Israel-Palestinian problem” for “Cyprus problem” and see what we come up with.
U.S. President Barack Obama has given himself a two-year deadline to reach a breakthrough on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, The Sunday Times reported.
Uh-huh. World Hypocrisy, 101. Of course, if you’re expecting Obama to weigh in on Cyprus, you’ll be waiting a long time. Nobody outside Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus give a damn about it.