Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:19:50 PM EDT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100907/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_fidel_castro

HAVANA – Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned
his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war.

Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The
Atlantic, blogged on the magazine's website Tuesday that he was on
vacation last month when the head of the Cuban Interests Section
in Washington — which Cuba maintains there instead of an embassy —
called to say Castro had read his recent article about Israel and Iran
and wanted him to come to Cuba.

Goldberg asked Julia Sweig, a Cuba-U.S. policy expert
at the Council on Foreign Relations, to accompany him, and the pair
spent portions of three days talking with Castro.

Cuba's state-controlled media reported Aug. 31 that Goldberg and Sweig met with Castro and attended the dolphin show at Havana's aquarium, but the blog was the first to reveal details of what they discussed.

Goldberg said their first meeting lasted five hours and featured appearances by Castro's wife, Dalia, his son Antonio, and several bodyguards, two of which held his elbow to steady Castro when he moved.

"His body may be frail, but his mind is acute, his
energy level is high," wrote Goldberg, who also noted Castro's
self-deprecating humor.

The 84-year-old ex-president wore full military fatigues and an olive-green cap while addressing university students
last week, and had previously appeared in public in a military shirt.
But Goldberg saw Castro in a red shirt, sweat pants, and black New
Balance sneakers.

He said Castro, who himself has been a fierce critic
of Israel, "repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism,"
chiding Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust. Castro said that Iran
could further the cause of peace by "acknowledging the 'unique' history
of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their
existence."

The gray-bearded revolutionary related to Goldberg a
story from his childhood that has been detailed by some biographers:
that he overheard classmates saying Jews killed Jesus Christ.

"I didn't know what a Jew was. I knew of a bird that
was a called a 'Jew,' and so for me the Jews were those birds," Goldberg
quoted Castro as telling him. Castro later added, "This is how ignorant
the entire population was."

According to Goldberg, Castro said, "I don't think
anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than
the Muslims."

Castro also said that the Iranian government should
understand that the Jews "were expelled from their land, persecuted and
mistreated all over the world, as the ones who killed God."

After undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July
2006, giving up Cuba's presidency and dropping out of sight for four
years, Castro has begun making near-daily public appearances to warn of a
nuclear war pitting the U.S. and Israel against Iran and also featuring
a Washington-led attack on North Korea.

"This problem is not going to get resolved, because
the Iranians are not going to back down in the face of threats," Castro
told Goldberg.

Goldberg also said he revisited the Cuban Missile
Crisis with Castro, asking if once "it seemed logical for you to
recommend that the Soviets bomb the U.S."

"Does what you recommended still seem logical now?"

Castro's answer surprised him: "After I've seen what I've seen, and knowing what I know now, it wasn't worth it all."

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When Castro is callin' you crazy...

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:24:48 PM EDT

[#1]

wut? LOL

If the nut running an asylum can see that...liberals must be really fucked up(as if we didnt know already)

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:29:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted: Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, blogged on the magazine's website Tuesday that he was on vacation last month when the head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington — which Cuba maintains there instead of an embassy — called to say Castro had read his recent article about Israel and Iran and wanted him to come to Cuba.

I read that article, it was damned good: Link

He made an excellent case that the Israelis are almost certain to fo. They're too cautious and conscious of their national survival imperative, Iran's government is too batshit insane, and Obama is too ineffective.

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:30:47 PM EDT

[#3]

Broken clock, blind hog, etc

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:48:53 PM EDT

[#4]

Wow, didn't see that one coming.

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:53:26 PM EDT

[#5]

Candid photo of the President unable to choose a side:

Posted: 9/7/2010 3:54:49 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Candid photo of the President unable to choose a side:

http://a.imageshack.us/img265/2931/barackobamainauguration.jpg

How dare you make fun of our president...

Good job!

Posted: 9/7/2010 4:14:25 PM EDT

[#7]

Wow, that Castro is as sharp as a tack, nothing slips by him. I'd never have realized that Ahmanutjob was antisemitic. I mean, how would one know, he disguises it SO well! That Castro must be psychic!

Posted: 9/7/2010 4:26:32 PM EDT

[#8]

Hugo will be disappointed that his mentor is disrespectin' his new butt buddy.

Posted: 9/7/2010 4:33:09 PM EDT

[#9]

In other news today, Cuban scientists discovered that water is wet and the sun is a hot mofo...

Posted: 9/7/2010 4:33:30 PM EDT

[#10]

I actually admire what he said, if I understand him that is. He knows that he

nearly helped start WWIII and a nuclear one at that. I am quite sure that was

not a good feeling and something like that could haunt a man. I believe he is

giving advise to Iran's leaders not to make the same mistake. If that mistake is

made it cannot be called back.

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