Israel has conquered significant positions in Greece and Cyprus, but failed to conquer the soul of its ancient people.
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Kalamata/ Greece
Aug. 20, 2025
For the Israeli elite and its media, the protests against Israel’s policies in Greece—especially the demonstrations when cruise ships carrying so-called Israeli “tourists” approach Greek ports—are unbearably irritating. We say “so-called tourists” because many of these passengers are soldiers on leave, resting after the horrific war crimes they commit, which are surpassing the one committed by the Nazis in brutality, so they can regain strength before repeating them.
An unspecified number of these “tourists” are war criminals, and if the (utterly subservient to Israel) Mitsotakis-ND government applied international and Greek law, they should be subjected to identity checks and arrested the moment they set foot on Greek soil. Not only the Greek authorities fail to do so, they organize large-scale police operations, almost military in nature, to ensure these so-called “tourists” can disembark undisturbed by the flags of proud Palestine—a Palestine that now measures the dignity of us all.
It should be noted that these “tourists” carry Israeli flags, chant Zionist slogans, provoke and insult Greek protesters against the genocide, attack them, and tear down posters, behaving as if they own the country they are visiting. In one instance, they even shouted at protesters, “The Turks will f… you,” revealing the depth of the “friendly sentiments” Israel claims to have toward Greece—something never proven in practice over the last 2,000 years!
The so-called “strategic alliance” between Israel and Greece is, in reality, nothing more than a propagandistic myth promoted by the Greek ruling class and its political representatives, who typically consider their “homeland” to be the collective West (Britain, the U.S., and now increasingly Israel) rather than the Greek state, whose independence they have rarely cared to defend. Moreover, Israeli officials themselves have never used terms like “strategic alliance” to describe Greek-Israeli relations.
After 2010, Israel did everything it could to fuel Greek-Turkish rivalry in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, pushing Athens into plans that were impossible to implement and to which Türkiye’s “war party” responded quite aggressively each time. Israel’s goal was to replicate—proportionally and in a milder form—the scenario that the same forces designed and executed in 1974. However, when Greece and Türkiye entered a major crisis over the EastMed pipeline plan and the Türkiye-Libya agreement, Israeli ministers stated that while they supported international law in the Mediterranean, they would not deploy their navy to enforce it.
Stoking Greek-Turkish rivalry is a longstanding policy of the Western “Empire” and especially Israel, aimed at controlling both states and keeping them in the Western camp. Regarding Cyprus and Greece, their “colonization” by Israel is already at a very advanced stage.
This is also one of the reasons for the Israeli elite’s unpleasant surprise at the massiveness, militancy, and intensity of the Greek people’s reactions. They thought they had already “conquered” Greece and Cyprus by controlling the political order, economy, media, “intellectuals,” military, and intelligence services and wiretapping everybody in Greece.
And indeed, they had secured significant positions. But they failed to conquer the soul of an ancient people who invented the word “democracy” and gave humanity the greatness of the Logos, pre-Socratic philosophy, classical art, the Athenian Democracy of Pericles and his mentor, Protagoras, student of Democritus.
The fact that this very country, with its illustrious past, proudly raised the flag of Palestine against a people who turned from victims into perpetrators of a Genocide — the image of Israelis being booed in Greek ports — particularly stung Israel because it symbolized, in the best possible way, the struggle of Humanity and Democracy against Barbarism and Totalitarianism, which in this case took the form of Zionist Racism.
But modern Greece was never part of the European colonial project; rather, it was its first victim with the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204. It was then that the modern Greek national project began to take shape—a project of “No,” of resistance to imperialism and colonialism.
This is why Greece and Greek Cypriots were exemplary allies in the past of the Arab struggles for national liberation. Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou sent Greek ships to rescue Arafat and his besieged fighters from Beirut in 1982. Twenty years earlier the Greek Michalis Raptis (Michel Pablo), then Secretary of the “Fourth International”, led the international effort to support the Algerian revolution by all means, including arms. Greek Cypriot EOKA fighters blew up British planes in Cyprus when they intervened in Suez against Nasser, and even manufactured their own weapons to supply African national liberation movements. The leader of the Cypriot socialists, Vassos Lyssarides, a close friend of Mandela, Castro, Nasser, and all the leaders of revolutionary Africa, was the only foreigner made an honorary member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mikis Theodorakis composed the Palestinian national anthem.
Today, this tradition may have been renounced and trampled by the ruling elite, but it still lives deep in the Greek soul. Despite the great defeat of 2015 and the betrayal by the leaders they trusted, despite the torrent of pro-Zionist propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation from the overwhelming majority of the media (not for information but for stupefaction and dehumanization), 71% of Greeks, according to polls, condemn the genocide carried out by Israel. And that is why on August 10—a month when protests almost never happen in Greece—people gathered to denounce the resurgence of Fascism in Israel in the Jewish state in over 100 locations across Greece.
Because this ancient people feel, deep down, far better than the corrupt Greek and international elites, whose motherland is Money, that the return of Nazism where no one expected it is one of the greatest threats to Humanity. They know, from their own instinct, a reflection of a vast experience accumulated at the crossroads of so many empires, that this force of Death has no friends or allies—that if it prevails, no people and no nation in the world will ever feel safe.
The Greek people are not anti-Semitic. On the contrary, through their stance, they once again contribute to saving Jews from their own leadership, just as they were one of the very few European peoples who, in the 1940s, did everything they could—at great risk to themselves—to save Jews from Hitler.
And the greatest proof of this is the fact that today’s Israeli leadership is fanatically supported by open or covert Greek and European fascists—the political descendants of those who exterminated Jews back then or imposed, through a bloody Civil War, the Nazi collaborators as the ruling class in post-WWII Greece.
Published at uwidata.com
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