The day earlier than yesterday Sunday, I went all the way down to the Syntagma and boasted in regards to the Pontic dances and the altering of the guard to the Unknown soldier…, 105 years after the extermination of 353,000 Greeks from the Pontus,…, unable to conceive how that genocide (which nonetheless awaits its recognition), can to be celebrated as a nationwide landmark by the Turks, who dedicated it?
The most important massacre-genocide, after that of the Armenians. Which was additionally dedicated by the identical perpetrator… Who, in actual fact, established them as nationwide holidays.
No, I'm not promoting my rage to anybody. However I do every thing I can, in my small territory, in order that the reminiscence by no means fades. That is additionally my nice nervousness in Cyprus, that we by no means give up to “we who can, they who can”. Which I do know is “performed” by many ahistorical folks. Which additionally occur to be comfy…
Yesterday, Monday, it was confirmed that Iran's President, International Minister and different officers have been killed after their helicopter crashed in very unhealthy climate on Sunday.
The crash comes at a tense time within the Center East, with battle raging in Gaza and simply weeks after Iran launched a drone and missile assault on Israel in response to a lethal strike on its diplomatic compound in Damascus.
Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi turned president in a historic unopposed election in 2021. He was beforehand the nation's chief justice.
He dominated at a time when all dissent was lower with the knife, in a rustic rocked by youth protests towards the autocracy of the clergy.
The authoritative information website GZERO Each day had the headline yesterday “The Butcher of Tehran was killed in a helicopter crash”. And in his obituary, he writes:
Ebrahim Raisi, 63, was a hardline cleric who headed Iran's judiciary earlier than being elected president in 2021. Beneath his tenure, Iran expanded its regional affect, supported militant proxies and boosted its nuclear program. His presidency was marked by vital anti-government protests following the dying in 2022 of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who died in jail for not carrying her headband. Raisi has been accused of authorizing the execution of 1000’s of political prisoners within the Nineteen Eighties as a part of Iran's infamous “Dying Committee” and was seen as a attainable candidate to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He could also be absent from the theocratic regime he served. From the remainder of the civilized world, in no way.
I heard it on-line on yesterday's Manos Vularinos present “No matter”, on Sky radio in Greece, and I actually couldn't imagine my ears. The businessman and TV character Mr. Lakis Gavalas, was present in an airport ready room. Subsequent to him sat three monks (in all probability on their technique to Mount Athos), who from their Greek accent have been Russians. One among them requested him if he’s male or feminine and Gavalas requested him to repeat the query.
— Are you a girl or a person? repeated a Russian monk.
— Inform us what you’re, since you’re non secular and should set an instance. Do you imagine in God; Gavalas asks him.
— I’m a monk, he replies.
— Ah! And you’ll stay a monk, Gavalas tells him.
– You might be Greek; the monk returns.
— What do you care what I’m? Are you a registry workplace?
– I simply requested. What are you; You’re a lady;
– What are you; Do you have got a variety of males in your present?
— What present?
— The place you reside. Do you have got many males?
— Males solely.
— Look, pray to God to be an excellent man, above all. And don't care in case you are male or feminine.
The monk will get irritated by this, and tells Gavalas to “get out of right here”.
— Go away, she solutions him. As a result of you aren’t an Elder, however a silly man. And also you're going to be on TV quickly, aren't you?
– Sure Sure Sure.
— In fact. As a result of you aren’t ashamed. You don't pray to God for folks. You're not a monk, You're an ass!
I used to be amazed! I didn’t assume {that a} monk, a person of God, may deal with a citizen like that, as a result of he, in his personal eyes, imagined one thing that he, the monk, not a simpleton couldn’t digest, however gave him a merciless bullying. My outdated sieve artwork…
The hyperlink is that this, for anybody who needs to be satisfied that this actually occurred: https://www.skairadio.gr/index.php/o-ti-na-nai/episode-2024-05-20
