Buying Cyprus
Following Rupture with Turkey, Israel buys Cyprus
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Marriage of Countries
Civilian weddings weren’t recognized under Israeli law. All weddings must be performed by a recognized religious organization, or abroad and then recognized by another state prior to recognition by Israel. The problem Dalia and I faced was my refusal to wed in a Jewish ceremony and my fear to begin the process of being recognized as a Christian by the state, a lengthy process which would have led nowhere, since mixed families were not encouraged. Religious organizations were by nature reluctant to approve mixed weddings and the state would create problems later for their ill-defined children, to the extent that their future studies and normal life in the state as regular citizens would be affected. A Jew and a Christian willing to wed and create a family together faced a Herculean task. Arie, my former classmate at the Tel Aviv University, had a brother who married a Russian immigrant. Upon her arrival in Israel, she wasn’t recognized as a Jew, which happened to around ten percent of this million strong immigration movement. As a result, they couldn’t marry at a synagogue. He—a Jew—could marry a Christian in a church, but the ceremony wouldn’t be recognized by the state. His children would be bastards and denied many rights. There were no civil ceremonies and every citizen must marry in the temple belonging to the religion indicated on the internal passport. Then the religion field in the document is filled by the Ministry of Interior according to their internal lists. They traveled to Cyprus and obtained the desired document at Larnaca’s local municipality, which was accustomed to such sights and enjoyed the earnings of this unusual industry. The trip was done in a standard package sold by many tourism agencies, which sends couples to Cyprus then brings them back to Israel within the same day. (excerpt from The Cross of Bethlehem The excerpt brought here discloses a sad reality; the Cypriot town of Larnaka owns much of its prosperity to the discriminatory practices of the State of Israel. Nowadays, following the rupture of its relations with Turkey, Israel is reinforcing its unholy marriage to Cyprus. Paphos would probably hosts IAF fighter planes and Israeli companies would be involved in the development of gas fields adjacent to Cyprus. These would be secured mainly by the IDF. I won’t mention the numbers here, but Cyprus is a tiny island, and is divided in two countries by an armed conflict. The combined population of both countries is barely above one million. This is much less than Gush Dan—Tel Aviv’s Metropolitan Area—and barely above Jerusalem. The local economy already relies to some extent on the marriage-tourism brought by Israel; if the announced agreements materialize, there is no doubt that Israel had in fact bought Cyprus.
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