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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Cuba’s Castro rails against ‘Gaza Holocaust’
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro writes an op-ed in the country’s official Communist Party newspaper, Granma, entitled “The Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza.”
He writes of a “new and repugnant form of fascism” in terms of the “genocide being committed against the Palestinians.
“The genocide of the Nazis against the Jews garnered the odium of all the people of the world,” writes Castro. “Why does the government of this country believe that the world will be insensitive to this macabre genocide that is now being committed against the Palestinian people?”
The full text in Spanish can be found here.
