No one ever listens to Greeks but as events show we were right to object to recognition of Skopje as “Macedonia”. They did abuse the name to rewrite history and promote irredentism (why I’m pissed at so many that pretend we were wrong).
We do not object to a state of their own right next to Greece.., The problem is the name of their state, coupled with thr pattern of behavior of a large portion of their citizens, is not only implicitly an attempt to claim parts of Greece and Greek history as their own but to rob us of our very identity.. Names are not always just names. They can be signifiers of identity, culture, language ethnicity, and of course territorial association.
I would have called even Athenians if they were moderates in Skopje but it has too many fanatics. This is why I didn’t support the Prespa Agreement because I knew the fanatic
element among them would violate it. Around half the country continue to to continue to link themselves to Alexander (apparently a slav that hated Hellenism) and promote “United Macedonia” (while their foreign apologists dishonestly pretend not to notice) For as long their ethnonym has “Macedonian” in it, I believe this issue will linger and very possibly lead to conflict one day.
This is just a random thought… maybe the same approach I support with SKopje, could be taken with the Palestinians?. A possible option is offer them a state but on condition they drop the name Palestinian entirely. This would detach the identity from the overlapping region of Israel. It not like their ancestors thought of themselves as Palestinians so the lame “genocide” angle over a name doesn’t wash. Even if they refuse, even just offering them this option would win Israel political capital.