Cyprus: an Israeli plot of land, an Israeli colony?

No, there’s no justifying an election poster for former Israeli army chief Gadi Eizenkot going up in Cyprus. Not even by some idiotic bit of deflection dismissing it just because Fidias Panayiotou and other “oddballs” objected. Eizenkot’s party, “Yashar”, has no business being in Cyprus at all. This is a man who, two or three years ago, gave orders for war crimes.

It’s irritating and frankly unbearable, if not outright infuriating, that some people in Cyprus are defending this campaign, or...