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Eastern Mediterranean Showdown: Why is Israel Suddenly Interested in "Liberating’ Cyprus?"

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News, News Commentary

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we break down the rising tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean as Cyprus becomes a key battleground in the global imperialist crisis. As the U.S., EU, and NATO struggle to maintain control over trade, energy, and regional dominance, new power struggles are erupting between Turkey and Israel—with Cyprus caught in the crossfire.


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0:00.0

Yeah, just, and we recorded that too.

0:03.6

So bringing energy, enthusiasm, idiocy.

0:07.3

Hello and welcome to colonial outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast,

0:12.0

that every self-respecting Christian evangelical Zio preacher would vehemently denounce as heresy.

0:20.0

Today, we're going to be talking about the fracturing imperialist

0:23.1

order by looking at Turkey, Israel's sudden interest in liberating Cyprus, Turkey's agenda in northern

0:30.3

Cyprus, and beyond the imperialist reshaping of the Middle East to counter China and Russia

0:36.7

and the coming turmoil

0:38.2

of our world. So it's going to be fun, you know, as the Israeli-Kinesit votes almost unanimously

0:46.0

to formally annex the West Bank and Netanyahu declares a reinvasion and occupation of the Gaza

0:52.0

strip with what troops exactly, you know, the U.S. Army couldn't even do it.

0:56.4

We see the entity positioning itself to begin yet another self-destructive political and territorial war against the much larger and more militarily powerful Republic of Turkey.

1:07.5

And there are two flashpoints of conflict at play here.

1:10.6

Well, two main ones in Syria over the

1:13.6

David corridor, which we might get into and the focus of this episode over the island of Cyprus. This is

1:19.9

an important and complex issue, especially if you're a Cypriot, because Israel is literally as a matter

1:26.4

of state policy trying to turn the strategically imvaluable island into a backup colony and military bastion.

1:33.4

How lucky then we are to be joined by a Cypriot geopolitical analyst currently in Cyprus dealing with all the insufferable Israeli settlers, blasting their equally insufferable electronic music from their gated

1:45.8

communities. Elina Zenafantos, thanks so much for coming on as always.

1:51.9

Oh, it's going to be a good one. Thank you for having me on again. Yeah, a lot of crazy messaging

1:59.0

has been coming out recently.

2:02.2

I just wanted to kind of, I was just apropos of nothing, looking at the various military

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