If military occupation of Cyprus is bad then why same is good for Palestine ?

Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (Australia), Aug 4, 2014 at 03:53

Dr. Pipes : Whatever the mistakes and sins of the Greek government and the Greek Cypriots before 1974 that you allude to, none of them justify a now-over 40-year occupation.

Ok then surely the Palestinian suicide bombings and other depravities which you condemn so much do not deserve the military occupation of Palestine for the past 4 decades by Israel.

You cannot have two separate rules for Turkey and Israel for the problem of : military presence. If you consider Turkish cyprus as occupied then so is the West Bank and Gaza.

No double standards here are justified.

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