Kostis Konstantinou, at The Blogs

Jun 14, 2026, 6:27 PM

They Celebrated on Oct. 7. What Did We Expect?

Sitting in my flat in Nicosia, Cyprus, on the evening of Oct. 7, 2023, I watched, like so many others, in disbelief as the outside world was flooded with images of Hamas’s atrocities in Israel. At some point, a friend...

May 26, 2026, 5:38 PM

Cyprus’s Election: A Reason for Israeli Concern?

An elderly Cypriot casting his vote. Photo: Stavros Ioannides (Press and Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus)

In June 2025, AKEL, Cyprus’s communist party — one of the few to survive the fall of the Iron Curtain without fading into irrelevance — held its congress. Unlike previous gatherings, it drew attention beyond the party’s base because of...

May 26, 2026, 12:00 AM

The Palace Politics of a Failed Authority

Palestinians have gone through another electoral exercise that was not, in any democratic sense, an election. They have not chosen a president since 2005, nor held parliamentary elections since 2006, when the terrorist organization Hamas won at the polls and,...

Mar 24, 2026, 6:07 AM

The Bitter Fate of a West That Never Learns

Last November, I had a truly extraordinary experience. Ι was invited to London, spoke at JW3 — the city’s main Jewish cultural and community centre — met members of the community, and had the honour of being the guest...

Feb 15, 2026, 1:27 AM

How Dare Israelis Dance?

An illustrated version of the original photograph that faithfully preserves the scene while protecting the privacy of the people depicted

Last Friday afternoon, I posted a story on Facebook: a video I shot from my window in Tel Aviv’s HaCarmel neighborhood. People were dancing salsa on an unusually warm evening as the sun set, just before Shabbat — even...

Jan 4, 2026, 4:51 AM

Israel and Cyprus act in line with Western Interests. Turkey?

A few months ago, when Greece and Cyprus blocked Turkey’s access to SAFE — the European Union’s €150-billion financial instrument for joint defence procurement — Ankara reacted with fury. That reaction, although it failed to find public political resonance, has...

Jan 1, 2026, 5:25 AM

Iran’s Regime Faces Its 1978 Nemesis

Iran boasts of its ability to retaliate against the United States. The reality is different. The danger facing the mullahs’ regime is growing fast—and it is coming from within. For a third straight day, protests have erupted from Iran’s traditional...

Dec 30, 2025, 5:00 AM

The Case of Somaliland—and Ankara’s Predictable Outrage

Israel’s decision to recognize Somaliland’s independence is not symbolic. It is a calculated geopolitical move with implications that extend far beyond bilateral relations, reshaping dynamics in the Horn of Africa and along critical maritime corridors. Somaliland, a former British protectorate,...

Dec 16, 2025, 9:28 AM

The Age of Enablers

Belongings gathered on the beach, after a shooting the day before, at Sydney's Bondi Beach, December 15, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mark Baker)

Terrorism operates on three levels within society. There are those who incite it, those who commit it and those who tolerate it. One can argue that these groups do not bear equal responsibility. Yet, judging by the outcome, it is...

Nov 17, 2025, 5:28 PM

Partner or Pirate? Turkey can’t be both

In the days following the 3+1 Energy Summit in Athens on November 6, which brought together the US, Israel, Greece and Cyprus, something was undeniably missing. Since the first trilateral meeting between Israel, Greece, and Cyprus back in 2016, Ankara...

About Me

Kostis Konstantinou is a Tel Aviv–based journalist with 30 years of experience. He serves as a correspondent for Greece’s public broadcaster, ERT, and as the Middle East correspondent for the Cyprus News Agency. He also writes for leading daily newspapers in Greece and Cyprus, Ta Nea and Phileleftheros, as well as for Digital Tree Media, and contributes regularly to TPS-IL, Israel's Press Service.

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