"What a resolution in Cyprus means for Palestine
By Nese Yasin
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The day the Ledra gate opened in Nicosia, I was on the Greek Cypriot side of the dividing line, inside the excited crowd. Some friends helped me to climb onto the plinth of the Memorial for the Missing Persons where I could see the other side better. Somebody from the crowd asked my friend Yannakis, who was standing by my side, what he saw. 'Just people like us waiting for the opening,' he said. 'Yes, I understand, some pseudo-people' (an ironic Greek Cypriot reference to Turkish Cypriot institutions), the other commented jokingly."
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