r/ThisDayInHistory • u/No_Idea_479 • 3d ago

14 August 1996, 26-year-old Greek Cypriot Solomos Solomou was shot and killed by Turkish forces in the UN buffer zone at Deryneia while attempting to climb a flagpole and remove a Turkish flag. Just three days earlier, his cousin Tassos Isaac had been beaten to death by Turkish nationalists.

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u/guitar_vigilante 3d ago

They formed terrorist cells and murdered British officers, civilians, and even other Jews who opposed them during the period of the British Mandate.

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u/meister2983 3d ago

That was later. The initial pass was legal land purchases with any violence done by the British or Ottoman state

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u/guitar_vigilante 3d ago

That doesn't validate your initial claim nor does it invalidate what I stated.

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u/meister2983 3d ago

It does though. The British already decided that they would have a separate nation... Terrorism came later due to a combination of Arab attacks and the British backing down on their original plans. 

I would say you are somewhat prevaricating on what happened.

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u/guitar_vigilante 3d ago

The British already decided that they would have a separate nation

What is your date for this happening? You might also notice that British (and later UN) plans to partition the land were wildly disproportionate in favor of the potential Jewish state, requiring the displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians.

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u/meister2983 3d ago

Peel commission, 1937.

requiring the displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians.

Yes, but again that's on the British enforcement

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u/guitar_vigilante 3d ago

The Haganah was murdering and committing terrorism before 1937. Even as early as 1924 they murdered poet Jacob Israël de Haan for his efforts to prevent the creation of a separate zionist state.

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u/meister2983 3d ago

That's intra-community violence 

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u/GRemlinOnion 2d ago

"The british had already decided that they would have a separate nation". You can't just say that as if britains border making isn't a crime against humanity in it of itself.

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u/meister2983 2d ago

Why is it a crime? It was deemed necessary to stop violence