Fidel Castro, the longtime president and leftist icon who stepped aside during a health crisis but still leads the Cuban Communist Party, has told a reporter that Israel definitely has the right to exist. "Yes it does, without a doubt..."
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In the same interview Castro criticized Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and said in an interview Tehran should acknowledge Israel's fears for its own survival.
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I've yet to see how Alo Presidente has reacted. He and Ahmadinejad are bosom buddies. Naturally, Ahmadinejad must react with his standard inflammatory rhetoric.
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From the man who actually spoke with Castro:
As I return to the subject of Fidel Castro and the many things he said to me on my recent visit to Havana, I'm struck again and again by a wonderful irony. Fidel is the icon of the global Left. The global Left today is thoroughly infiltrated by Israel-negationists, those people who have aligned themselves with hardcore Islamists and extreme-rightists to form a Red-Green-Brown front opposed to the existence of the world's only Jewish-majority country. It's a strange alliance, of course, in which to find self-described progressives, but hatred of Jewish national equality can do funny things to people's heads. But what's even stranger is that Fidel, this historic, iconic figure for global leftists, expresses nothing but sympathy for Jews, for the history of Jewish suffering, and even for the Jewish state. He doesn't have much love for its governments, but for the idea of Israel? Nothing but support.
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Well its good to see Castro join the side of sanity and reason, but I find it offensive that the existence of Israel is even posed as a question.
Does anyone seriously ask if Iran, Saudi Arabia, France, etc have a 'right to exist'? No doubt this existential question is being pushed by the modern day anti-semitic hatemongers in the Islamic world.
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/Devil's Advocate
Israel is the only nation that was forced into existance by a group outside the region
so instead of cases like Georgia where the local pop broke off from a larger nation, or Yougoslovia which split in half
you have an area that has a group that was told "We're gonna put a nation in this place, the people we are making it for used to be here a long time ago, you ont like it, tough"
so, do to this type founding for Israel, you get people questioning its "right to exist"
/end Devil's Advocate
Devil's Advocate aka muslim propagandist,
Israel has existed for 3,000 years, long before the followers of the pedophile-terrorist prophet conquered the area and claimed it as their own, so your scenario is patently false.
The region of Palestine originally belonged to who? That's right the Jews-until the (re)formation of Israel as a nation state in 1948 which the muslims could not tolerate, so 5 Arab nations declared war on the tiny state of Israel and were defeated.
The "Palestinians" are really Jordanian and Egyptian refugees from that war and this 2-state nonsense is just a continuation of their endless jihad. This is why the charters of both Hamas and Fatah deny Israel's right to exist.
Now many nations come into existence through warfare and conflict and the maps are redrawn, nothing new about that. But Israel has not only won it's place by surviving the wars against it, but has always had a presence in the region.
The Arab-muslims have 600 times more land than the Jews but want every square inch-who's the real land-stealer? If they want peace they should give up the jihad and develop their own economy instead. Otherwise they'll continue to live in misery or face a more devastating war once Israel's patience finally runs out.
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Israel has existed for 3,000 years, long before the followers of the pedophile-terrorist prophet conquered the area and claimed it as their own, so your scenario is patently false.
your own words
that land has changed hands many times
the diffence was all those times before, it was the locals fighting out, this most recent change is seen as being enforced by the west
but if you just wasnt to discount what I said by calling it propaganda, go ahead, doesnt change the fact of what happened
you asked how people can even ask if Israel has a right to exist, and I told you my thought on what allows that line of thought
gee I am sure glad Castro never lies. lol
nooooo he couldnt be saying these things to manipulate....ohhhh noooo
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