Al-Jazeera journalist fearmongering about Israelis moving to Cyprus. Cypriots, is this something people in your country are worried about? (Asking as an Israeli)

by DatDudeOverThere

11 comments

  1. You are more than Welcome my friend! Unfortunately for you the “popular trend” nowadays for young people is to “support Palestine” so I am unsure whether or not you will be welcomed with open arms everywhere.
    Regardless, we always had a lot of Israelis in Cyprus and personally I never had a bad experience with any of them. Beat them all in tavli (backgammon) as well 😎

  2. I have Israeli friends and Palestinian friends, they are pretty cool.

  3. It’s like a Trump post. Huge HUGE Hugest pieces of land !!! The best land they all say this. They are buying in huge numbers big BIG HUGE!!

  4. We’re mostly worried that the cost of living and rents will go even higher, as they’re already ridiculous because of the war in Ukraine and all the rich refugees and russian draft evaders.

  5. It’s not so much the fact the land bought is “huge”, as much as the fact that much of the land sold is in the north, and thus most likely illegally acquiring Greek Cypriot refugees’ property as well.

  7. Considering the large chunks of land in the north that belong to Greek Cypriot refugees are being sold to Israelis(and others ofc) I don’t see why we shouldn’t worry

  8. Dude…we tolerate the people that invade us to go back and forth freely through their wannabe nation, we let the Russian launder money for decades, do you believe anyone gives a shit about the Israelis moving here?

  9. We don’t really like people who drop bombs on children….

  10. They are mostly acquiring land in the north, why:

    * its being sold as cheap, so they see it as a deal in a EU country, and allocating their resources to a more “stable” country
    * ignorance on previous legal cases of how they are liable in Israel and in EU courts for buying land that belongs to refugees (eg Apostolides vs Orams, Cypriot vs English Citizen, the English Citizen was found guilty in EU and English Court)
    * they are not aware of Cyprus conflict and embargos in the north side
    * Paphos already have Orthodox Jewish Communities, and also a strong Israel community there, so in terms of they building a “Jewish” settlement I don’t think so

  11. So I did a little digging around OP’s previous posts, and I came across [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/s/20j4qSlC1k). OP himself posted a comment mentioning how Israelis buy land in the TRNC, and another person admitting they are doing it for cheaper real estate with zero shame. That was from an hour ago.

    I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but clearly you are just playing dumb to not get flamed, seeking pro-Israeli validation among Cypriots of this sub.

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