Posted on 09/09/2010 12:23:19 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Fidel Castro has accused Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of antisemitism, in a passionate defence of Israel's right to exist. Cuba's retired president, a longtime critic of Israeli government policy, said Jews had been slandered and slaughtered for centuries whereas Muslims were not blamed for anything.
The 83-year-old comandante criticised Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and urged Tehran to acknowledge the "unique" history of antisemitism and understand why Israelis feared for their existence.
The comments will sting Iran's president and could prove awkward for Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, two presidents who revere Castro and have forged close ties with Ahmadinejad.
Castro made his comments to Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist with The Atlantic, whom he summoned to Havana after reading one of his articles about the Middle East.
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Castro continued: "I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything."
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How about yeasterday’s statement that the Cuban economic model does not work. Advanced dementia, no doubt.
In this instance I agreed with him too, except for the above.
Interesting that Castro is defending Israel while obamination is doing his best to throw Israel under the bus-—and back over a few times just for good measure.
Fidel is becoming unreliable.
Either that or he’s having his come to his maker moment.
Maybe not dementia; Castro may realize that soon he will meet his maker.
But reading this article makes me wonder if any weirder news is on tap for this week.
Castro is worried about Iranian/Muslim/Arab/Al Qaeda influence supplanting communist Cuba’s influence in Venezuela and the rest of South America.
Tin horn dictator of his backwards prison island. A holdover from the 20th Century cavalcade of evil men.
Whatever disease Castro has I hope it is contagious!
How about yeasterday’s statement that the Cuban economic model does not work. Advanced dementia, no doubt.
Whatever disease Castro has I hope it is contageous!
He’s trying to get into Heaven now.
I don't mind that so much. I just wish Obama would try harder.
Maybe he wants to make aliya.
I think he is seeing the writing on the wall when he passes to the other side.
Imagine all the ghosts of the people he had savagely tortured, shot at the stake with Che administering the coup de grace, and all those he suppressed on his personal cattle ranch reaching for him to tear him apart.
Could it be that old Fidel turned to God while on his death bed recently? He seems to have made a pretty good recovery. Recently he said something to the effect that communism doesn’t work and that he was sorry to have asked the Soviets to nuke the USA during the missile crisis.
Wow! Fidel’s sharp as ever, huh!
Think back; allowing Castro to imprison Cuba, allowed much of the retirment boom, which many foresaw. to benefit Fla. Without Castro, a free Cuba would have welcomed many of these retirees.
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