Writing in Israeli newspaper Maariv, Amos Gilboa compares the European Union's position on Cyprus, where refugees were created in the armed secession of the northern, Turkish—dominated Muslim section of the island from the southern, Greek, Eastern Orthodox—dominated section. Approximately 200,000 Greeks and 50,000 Turks fled their homes.

The Eu recognizes no "right of return" for these refugees, although Israel is hectored to allow the "return" of descendents —— some of them four generations rmoved —— of the Arabs who voluntarily left Israel in 1947, on the promise of return with the victorious Arab armies who would push the Jews into the sea.

Gilboa adds:

it is interesting to remember (and remind the UN and EU, in the future) that in Cyprus, the basic assumption of the plan was that the new reality of refugees and settlers, which has been created in Cyprus during the last 30 years, was the decisive factor to be considered, not abstract claims for justice.

Yet again, Israel is judged by standards which are applied to no other nation or ethnic group. That is the textbook definition of racial bigotry.

Posted by Thomas  05 04 04