Castro slams Ahmadinejad on Israel
Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and promoting anti-Semitism.
In a wide-ranging interview with Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, Castro, a frequent critic of Israel, said the Iranian government could encourage peace by acknowledging the "unique" history of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence.
(JTA)
[Hat tip: Larry]Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and promoting anti-Semitism.
In a wide-ranging interview with Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, Castro, a frequent critic of Israel, said the Iranian government could encourage peace by acknowledging the "unique" history of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence.
(JTA)
Will Castro Free Imprisoned U.S. Jew? -Mary Anastasia O'Grady
While Fidel Castro told the Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg that he is outraged by anti-Semitism, what about poor Alan Gross, a U.S. government contractor and a Jew, who has been languishing in a Cuban prison since December. His crime: distributing cellphones to a handful of Cuban Jews who want to establish contact with the diaspora. Is that any way to show love for the Jewish people?
(Wall Street Journal)
Cuba's Deplorable Human Rights Record
-U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
[T]he Castro regime continues to inflict substantial domestic political and economic oppression. The Cuban people suffer without the most basic human rights, and the government imprisons students, journalists and anyone who speaks against the regime.
(USA Today)
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While Fidel Castro told the Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg that he is outraged by anti-Semitism, what about poor Alan Gross, a U.S. government contractor and a Jew, who has been languishing in a Cuban prison since December. His crime: distributing cellphones to a handful of Cuban Jews who want to establish contact with the diaspora. Is that any way to show love for the Jewish people?
(Wall Street Journal)
Cuba's Deplorable Human Rights Record
-U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
[T]he Castro regime continues to inflict substantial domestic political and economic oppression. The Cuban people suffer without the most basic human rights, and the government imprisons students, journalists and anyone who speaks against the regime.
(USA Today)
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Kudos to Castro -Editorial
President Shimon Peres issued a warm letter to Castro with gratitude for the “moving” and “unexpected” words that bore “an original and unique intellectual depth.” And a Prime Minister’s Office’s statement defined what Castro had said as a testimony to his “deep understanding of the history of the Jewish people and Israel.”
One need not be a great historian, however, to recall Cuba’s anti-Israel track-record under Castro. In 1967, Cuba’s ambassador to the UN described Israel’s preemptive attack against the onslaught of Arab armies in the Six Day War as “a surprise attack in the Nazi manner,” and Havana’s military advisers provided instruction to PLO terrorists both in Cuba and in southern Lebanon in the seventies and early eighties. Diplomatic relations with Israel were cut in 1973 after Castro sent Cuban tank commanders to join Syrian forces in the Yom Kippur War, and Cuba remains on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
[Jerusalem Post]
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