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I dont know daniel, fidel has had a long love affair with certain "leaders" in the middle east.

The Beast hates Jews as much as chavez. Don't be fooled.

I second Val's comment. While I don't know if fidel personally has voiced anything, Cuba's policy is anti zionist. They are pro the Palestinian estate and during the recent crisis Granma was totally anti israelly and completely pro hezbollah, cough cough, pro Lebanon

Every blogger that is housed in Cuba is a mouthpiece for the regime. They are journalists in the employment of fidel, and jus go visit their sites, they are rabid anti Israel. If Iran were to realease a nuclear weapon again Israel, they would applaud it and blame Israel. Yest the tyrant is an anti-simite.

It's a strange thing - Castro is anti Israel - though he has a large following there amongst secular Jews. Castro has helped the PLO yet leftist Jews - especially in America love and support him financially and morally. I don't know how many Upper East Side NY Times reading Jews who also support israel also love fidel. It's a staggering amount!

And to make things even more interesting Castro -it is said to have jewish blood. the contribution by secular American Jews has been immense. Just look at all the work and propaganda Sandra Levinson of the Center for Cuban Studies has done for castro - a lot.

OK, let's go by parts.

My point is that fidel might hate Jews but he is smart enough not to be vocal about it. Whereas Chavez, his pupil, is crazy enough to be vocal about it. I added that it might suggest that fidel is not controlling huguito as much as one would have thought.

Now, let' not do the same mistake as our adversaries do: being in favor of a Palestinian state cannot automatically mean that we are anti semite or anti-Israel. Personnally in my blog I have taken significant risk by constantly denouncing Chavez anti-semitism, I have been insulted by Chavez supporters who even worte me private threatening notes. Yet, I think that Israel should cooperate more in the establishment of a Palestinian homeland and that it should not have allowed the creation of all these colonies on the West Bank which have become an additional near insolvable problem. In other words, that Castro supports a Palestinian state is not enough for us to assume that he is anti-Jew. For all that I know and that you seem to say he might, but we cannot say that only on his support for Palestine.

But Castro is not the same as the Cuban bloggers that support him, or the stupid US left that backs him up. As I wrote in the post, fidel is a product of the second world war communist mentality where it was crucial to fight racism and religion of all type to utopically unite the world. That they managed gulags was a "side issue" justified strictly on political grounds even though these only too often had racial coincidences such as the forcible removal of the Crimean Tartars.

Those in place now in Cuba are too far removed from that experience and can casually toss out words like Holocaust or Genocide just because they sound cute or because they are plain ignorant or because, unbeleivably, it has become fashionable for the anti Bush left, something much worse than ignorance. My post is thus also a reflection on the change of the political discourse, something that worries me a lot when I see people like huguito carelessly using hallowed words. When such words are made common, it is when they come back in full force to hit you.

Certainly fidel is a beast and hates all, but at least he had the smarts to focus and control his hatred and has harmed mostly Cuba. What worries me is that huguito is stupid and he is going to end up harming much more than just Venezuela.

Daniel, just like the rest of civil society, fidel castro decimated a once thriving Jewish community in Cuba. He also sent troops to fight along side the Arabs in the Yom Kippur War. No telling how many Jewish deaths he contributed to there. Also, decades of pro-Palestinian anti- Jewish literature and propaganda. The Jewish lefitsts who support him put their communist idealogy before their Jewishness which is cultural and not religious. Like their red minded brethern they are atheist. Castro's terrorism is responsible for plenty of deaths, in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Like his other misdeeds, the MSM ignores the facts.

Ziva

Then maybe it is time to make an updated post on Babalu as to this. After all, the only one I found was from Val in 2004 and that is the one I used in my post.

Considering what is going in Venezuela now with Chavez creeping anti Semitism, then it would be good and necessary and urgent to research and publish the evidence on Castro.

However there is something that we should keep in mind when we write on these matters (to make sure we do not make it easy for the other side to weasel out of the argument): one thing is to be anti Semitic and another one is to be anti Israel. I know that for us it is impossible to understand how some people can make that difference but some do, even though I suspect that most use "I am anti Israel, only" to hide their true anti Semitic nature. Some of course like fidelito are anti anything that comes on their way but that is another story.

Israel is the Jewish people; yes there can be legitimate criticism of Israel that has nothing to do with anti-Semitism but if you are "anti" Israel, then you are anti Jewish, period. And if you are a Jew living in Havana and staring at anti-Semitic pro-PLO Palestinian propaganda, a group that has always advocated for the destruction of Israel and driving out the Jews there is no other interpretation, Cuban propaganda is the voice of castro, whether or not the words come out of his mouth.

I think castro shows more restraint than The Thug, but his antisemitism is real. He knows better than to annoy the Israels, who will be happy to sell him stuff if he can keep his antisemitism in check. Also, he is a cold ruthless calculator, not a splatter-my-feelings-everywhere kind of guy like The Thug. He will express antisemitism but only if there is a concrete benefit in it for him, otherwise, he will still be antisemite but he might say less.

Check out the Cuba transition project and all its info on castro's ties to Iran, it's curdling, to say the least.

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