Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the most senior Republican woman in the House and an avid supporter of AIPAC/Netanyahu, has a great piece in the Washington Times against the occupation and settlements. As even the conservative readers of the Times noted (in the comments), all you have to do when reading is to replace Turkey with Israel.
More than 40,000 heavily armed Turkish soldiers are occupying the northern part of the country, with one Turkish soldier for every two Turkish-Cypriots. The presence of this overwhelming force cannot be justified by the claims that they are needed to prevent any renewal of violence (…)
Turkey also has tried to limit Cyprus‘ sovereign rights to develop its energy resources (…) Reports by the Turkish-Cypriot media indicate that the Turkish government continues to promote illegal immigration by Turks to the northern occupied areas of Cyprus with the goal of changing the demographic composition of the island. According to people administering the occupied area, there are an estimated 160,000 settlers from Turkey, many of whom occupy the homes of the evicted Greek-Cypriots. However, reports in the Turkish-Cypriot press from Turkish-Cypriots who live among the Turkish settlers put this number between 500,000 and 800,000. A recent “census” in the north indicated that the total population in the north had increased to nearly 300,000 people.
By its occupation, Turkey is “guaranteeing” nothing but a creeping annexation. It is time for Turkey to withdraw its military troops, end all support for illegal immigration to Cyprus and let the true inhabitants of the island determine their own future. Only then will the long-suffering Cypriot people finally enjoy the peace and security they have been trying so desperately to achieve for decades.
Read the rest here. As some might remember, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen criticised the Obama administration for demanding Israeli halt its settlement project in the occupied West Bank. She also opposed the Palestinian “unilateral” statehood bid.
(h/t Ken Sofer/CAP).
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Philos
Has to be said I am afraid; dual-loyalty with questionable objective loyalty to the country she serves as a House Representative. I’m sure she thinks there is no dissonance in her positions on Israel vis-a-vis US interests but she is clearly mistaken. As an Israeli-Jew I have to say that these borderline traitorous Jews from America give me the willies and make me think some objectively anti-Semitic things about Rightist Jews from America, France, Britain, Australia, Canada and South Africa. Which leaves me in the quandary of, “what the hell I am thinking? What is going on here?”
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Sometimes I wonder if the Left in this country will one day be sloganeering, “Get the Jews out of Israel!” or “Israel for Israelis! No more Jewish interference in our affairs!”
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Sadly, I don’t think it is as far fetched as all that given the alienation of the average secular Israeli from what is considered “Jewish” in Israel. Lebanonization, here we come!
Jack
This woman is like a robot, the money poors in from the lobby and she says the most idiotic stuff.
aristeides
Israel-firster blind to her hypocrisy.
Rafael
Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban, is quite disliked in Latin America. Her hawkishness towards Cuba, her disrespect for our countries’ sovereignty, threats to intervene in our region’s internal affairs — it would appear that she’s part of those jingoistic American patriots, the neocons, who don’t understand there are certain affairs that are none of their country’s business. But it turns out that this crowd, too, has a reason to dislike her — the fact that this woman is an Israel-Firster.
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/11/19/republicans-promise-head-on-battle-with-dangerous-latam-autocrats
Kolumn9
Philos, she is Episcopalian and Cuban, and her not being Jewish makes your post a long testament to preconceived biases. If positions from non-Jewish Americans like these stimulate your ‘objective anti-Semitism’, then you really should examine your intellectual vigor.
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It is a funny thing that you make references to borderline traitorous Jews in a post like that.
Rafael
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen
“Project Vote Smart lists Ros-Lehtinen as Episcopalian.[2] Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews from Turkey who had been active in Cuba’s Jewish community.[44] Her mother later converted to Catholicism.[44]“