A flexible model, and a fairy tale to match

A flexible model for solving the Cyprus problem, that’s what they’re calling it now. Because a British newspaper printed it. The Independent. Suddenly they love it. Yet when Nicos Anastasiades said exactly the same thing, nobody wanted to know. And when he dared, wrongly of course, to mention two states, they tore him to shreds. Now? Not a peep of objection.

Because it isn’t called a two-state solution, it’s a flexible model of a loose form of federation. Never mind that the Independent is...