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ba wildman: his hand will be against every man and every man’s bhand against him” (Genesis 16:11-12). bAnd if this is so, what madness holds us in its grip and has bus believe that they will live with Jews who differ from them in bevery way, who “stole” their land, and who appear today to be bweak and retreating? Israel heads inexorably toward another bCyprus. Cyprus bCyprus is an island that in 1960 gained independence, but bno peace. No sooner had the struggle by the Greek Cypriots bagainst the British ended than they turned their attention to the bTurks. For centuries a large Greek majority of some 80 percent bhad lived uneasily next to a Turkish minority of about 18 per- bcent. The demand of the Greeks for independence always car- bried with it a corollary: enosis, union with the Greek motherland. bTo the Turkish minority, the thought of living under the Greek bCypriots as an 18 percent minority was bad enough; the thought bof being part of Greece was terrifying. And so the independence bplan called for a “bicommunal” state—not a federation, but a bstate in which the Turks would get proportional representation bwith appropriate vetoes of important issues—including enosis. bArchbishop Makarios, the Greek Cypriot leader, attempted bto subvert the agreement in 1963, touching off an ugly war be- btween Greeks and Turks with the Turkish army, just across the bwaters, ready to step in. In 1974, when the Greek colonels in bAthens did attempt to establish total Greek rule over the entire bisland, the Turkish troops invaded and put an end to bicom- bmunalism. They succeeded by force, fear, and harassment in bforcing the Greek Cypriots to go to southern Cyprus, while bTurkish Cypriots resettled in the northern part of the island. bDecades of bitter fighting led to a solution by transfer of popu- blation. Today, Cyprus is in effect two states, each homogeneous, beach the sovereign land of a people who could not live in peace bwith the other. bThere are differences from, but striking parallels with, Is- brael. In both cases, two peoples differ in national, ethnic, cul- btural, religious, and linguistic qualities. In both cases, the mi- bnority has powerful ethnic brethren outside the country, but bnearby, who sympathize with their plight. In both cases, the b
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