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Raul Castro celebrates Hanukkah with Cuban Jews

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Raul Castro celebrates Hanukkah with Cuban JewsRaul Castro celebrates Hanukkah with Cuban Jews

By PAUL HAVEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 5, 2010 7:50 p.m. PT


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Cuba's President Raul Castro lights a Hanukkah candle during a ceremony at the Bet Shalom synagogue in Havana, Cuba, Sunday Dec. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)

HAVANA -- President Raul Castro celebrated Hanukkah on Sunday with Cuba's tiny Jewish community, a heavily symbolic act at a time when his government is holding a Jewish-American subcontractor on suspicion of spying.
That is Raul Castro in the picture above, wearing a yarmulke and given the honor of lighting the first candle of the menorah.. He is an evil and murderous dictator which has shed the blood of tens of thousands of Cubans.

Raul Castro said he hoped to have more time on another occasion to come and talk about "the Hebrew community in Cuba and the fabulous history of the Hebrew people."

This is the same guy whose statement was published by the regime official press: “On January 7, 2009 General Raul Castro hosted in Havana Iranian Special Envoy, Ali Akbar Mehrabian. Gen. Castro reiterated Cuba’s condemnation of the treacherous aggression against Gaza.” Granma, January 8, 2009. Granma is the official newspaper of Cuba’s Communist Party; Cuba’s ruling and only party.

This is what Fidel Castro said in a statement issued at the United Nations on June 14, 2010: ``The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the 1 ½ million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis,'' Castro said. ``It would seem that the Fuehrer's swastika is today Israel's banner,'' he said, referencing Adolf Hitler.

These Castro brothers are the guys who lashed out against the State of Israel, amoral and compulsory liars, Machiavelli’s characters.
 
That is Raul Castro in the picture above, wearing a yarmulke and given the honor of lighting the first candle of the menorah.. He is an evil and murderous dictator which has shed the blood of tens of thousands of Cubans.

Raul Castro said he hoped to have more time on another occasion to come and talk about "the Hebrew community in Cuba and the fabulous history of the Hebrew people."

This is the same guy whose statement was published by the regime official press: “On January 7, 2009 General Raul Castro hosted in Havana Iranian Special Envoy, Ali Akbar Mehrabian. Gen. Castro reiterated Cuba’s condemnation of the treacherous aggression against Gaza.” Granma, January 8, 2009. Granma is the official newspaper of Cuba’s Communist Party; Cuba’s ruling and only party.

This is what Fidel Castro said in a statement issued at the United Nations on June 14, 2010: ``The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the 1 ½ million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis,'' Castro said. ``It would seem that the Fuehrer's swastika is today Israel's banner,'' he said, referencing Adolf Hitler.

These Castro brothers are the guys who lashed out against the State of Israel, amoral and compulsory liars, Machiavelli’s characters.

They only want Jewish money.
 
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat, said this about Fidel Castro statement at the United Nations on June 14, 2010: “These aren't just the comments of some doddering anti-Semite who is losing his faculties. These malicious comments were officially distributed by Cuba's government. They should be seen as what they are -- an official position of the Cuban government and endorsement of hateful anti-Semitism.''

Of course he is a full-fledged anti-Semite. Of the 15,000 Jews living in the island in 1959, only 1,500 remain. 90% left after the regime took away their business and properties, and banned all religions.
 
seems like a reasonable guy. rocking the island with the jewish community.


what's with the sanctions? what did Cuba ever do?
 
Based on events in history, the only place of shelter available to the oppressed in their own country has been in many instances churches and synagogues. Religious leaders in Cuba have let down their followers and pact with the regime, jeopardizing the shelter that those places of worship offer to the Cubans. Sure, there are pastors, priests and rabbis in the island who will protect their followers from the regime, but every day their battle turn more difficult, since they have to confront those leaders which betrayed them for a few prerogatives.
 
That is Raul Castro in the picture above, wearing a yarmulke and given the honor of lighting the first candle of the menorah.. He is an evil and murderous dictator which has shed the blood of tens of thousands of Cubans.

I would be curious about where you are getting your stats from here.
 
The support of the people in the free world should be behind the courageous clerics who defy the Castros’ dictatorship and their dishonest religious leaders in complicity with the regime. More than ever they need our support against an atheistic regime to keep it at bay. If those who supposedly represent a theistic doctrine collaborate with the regime, who is left to help them? We live in dark times and this is an indication of how dark things have become.
 
The MSM will jump up at the opportunity to spin this event and say something nice about Raul statement. It doesn’t matter that the island Jewish community is small due to the fact that the vast majority of the Jewish community has to leave Cuba because the Castro brothers ruined this prosperous community with the expropriation of their businesses, big and small, by the limits imposed to freedom of religion, and the hatred unleashed in part of the population as a result of their pro-Arabs and anti-Zionists proclamations.
 
Raul’s stratagem, since the current Jewish population is tiny, is basically for foreign consumption and getting benefits from them. The target population may react to it by not taking the bait, or by swallowing it from self serving interest. No doubt that at this stage of the game, those who don’t get is because they don’t want to.
 
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat, said this about Fidel Castro statement at the United Nations on June 14, 2010: “These aren't just the comments of some doddering anti-Semite who is losing his faculties. These malicious comments were officially distributed by Cuba's government. They should be seen as what they are -- an official position of the Cuban government and endorsement of hateful anti-Semitism.''
You forgot to post the statement by Fidel Castro to which she was responding:

“The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one-and-a-half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis.”

“It would seem that the Fuehrer’s swastika is today Israel’s banner.”

Yes, it seems clear it's gesture aimed at foreign communities. Why reach out to 0.01% of your native population.
 
You forgot to post the statement by Fidel Castro to which she was responding:


Yes, it seems clear it's gesture aimed at foreign communities. Why reach out to 0.01% of your native population.
Thanks for posting Fidel Castro statement.

It is very evident this is a propaganda operation. The regime effort is design to shift attention from the tensions created by laying off 500,000 employees and reduction of state subsidies. Raul seems to be involved in a plan of action to reduce de population through another exodus to the US. One of the reasons is that at this moment looks that the Democrats will lose the 2012 elections, and the Castro brothers believe that the Jews community in the US exercise great influence in the actual government and could help them to fulfill their plan.
 
Raul Castro is atheists, and now he is lighting a candle during a ceremony at a Synagogue? The Devil lighted de candle. What is next, that Fidel will ask the Pope for confession and absolution? How many of the Jews who escaped from Nazism towards Cuba, and had to escape again leaving behind everything, running away from Castro’s communism, will be happy celebrating Hanukkah with the Devil and allow him to lighting a candle?
 
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