Fidel Castro to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'
"Castro's message to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, was
not so abstract, however. Over the course of this first, five-hour
discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of
anti-Semitism. He criticized Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and
explained why the Iranian government would better serve the cause of
peace by acknowledging the "unique" history of anti-Semitism and
trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence."
Castro's self-reinvention is kind of hilarious, but the article is
really interesting. An interesting followup is here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fidel-cuban-model-doesnt-even-work-for-us-anymore/62602/
in which Castro admits that the statist Cuban system of government is
far too statist to be functional anymore, even for Cuba. And he visits
a dolphin show, run by a nuclear physicist and Che Guevara's daughter.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/the-point-of-no-return/8186/1/
A sobering and nuanced look at the circumstances affecting any sort of
preventive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, from an Iranian,
Israeli and American perspective.
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