Havana – Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro has urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop slandering the Jews, according to an article published on the U.S. website The Atlantic on Tuesday.
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The ageing revolutionary devoted much of a five-hour conversation to the issue of anti-Semitism, wrote Jeffrey Goldberg, who interviewed Castro in the Cuban capital Havana.
Castro told The Atlantic that the Iranian government should understand the consequences anti-Semitism.
“This went on for maybe two thousand years,” he said. “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.”
He added: “The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.”
Read the full story at Haaretz.com and The Atlantic
Don’t believe a word he says…
So who says that a person can’t change….look we have a old 85 year old guy who is changing.. when is visiting israel?
Well, well, well! Who would have thought that Dictator Castro would turn out to be such a lover of Am Yisrael.
The fact that he said it, is a nice gesture, bearing in mind he has nothing to gain from this statement, politically or otherwise.
its possible to think hes a hardcore socialist not a dictator
When did castro have anything against jews?
Why the sudden about face?
You cant tell the Hitler of today that the holacaust was bad and expect sympathy. it will make him happy
Stop calling Ahmadinejad the “Hitler of today.” He’s a typical Muslim blowhard who likes to talk about nuking Israel, but as far as is known he has never harmed a single Jew. Has he sent any Iranian Jews to concentration camps or deprived them of their livelihoods? To compare Ahmadinejad to Hitler is to minimize the enormity of Hitler’s crimes.
they’re playing good cop, bad cop. it’s all a front, they’re trying to manipulate society’s views.
Mr. Castro is obviously making statements that he has never been known to have extoled before. Better later than never!
Time for peace with America……
Is there Jewish religious freedom in Cuba?
Obama = Socialist
Castro = Socialist
Atleast Castro talks intellectually, and seems to have some brains.
To #9 .
Mr. Yanky, would you invite achmedinijahd to your rosh hashanah meal tonight? ‘He never harmed anybody’….
Maybe your part of neturai karta
nene its erev rosh hashana cant we have a little shalom yisroel. we are all brothers lets talk to eachother like we are.