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Castro and Arafat's Partnerships

In November 1966, Castro opened more than a dozen guerrilla training camps under the direction of KGB Col. Vadim Kotchergine where Palestinians were trained. And in 1967, after the Six-Day War, Cuba's U.N. ambassador, Richardo Alarcon - portrayed as a "moderate" by the U.S. media - called the war an "armed aggression against the Arab people ... by a most treacherous ... surprise attack in the Nazi manner."

In October 1973, Castro broke diplomatic relations with Israel after he deployed thousands of Cuban soldiers including helicopter pilots and tank crews to fight alongside the Syrians during the Yom Kippur War. How many Israelis did Castro's soldiers kill?

To insult Israel and the Jewish people even further, Castro gave the PLO an expropriated Jewish community center in Havana.

On Nov. 14, 1974, Yasser Arafat was enthusiastically received in Havana and given Castro's foremost decoration, the Bay of Pigs Medal.

On May 30, 1978, Reuters news service confirmed (11 years later!) that PLO personnel had been trained in Cuba and on Sept. 13, the Egyptian newspaper Ahar Sa'ah reported that 500 Palestinians were leaving for training in Cuba. Does anybody know how many terrorists and suicide bombers Castro trained in his camps and how many innocent people have been killed as a result?

From the 1970s to today, Jews have been scorned in Castro's controlled press.

Paradoxically, according to Irving Louis Horowitz's Preface in David J. Kopilow's "Castro, Israel and The PLO," the Jewish intellectuals and organizations in the U.S. "were in the forefront of singing the praises of Castro."

But with Castro's background of anti-Semitism, his decimation of the Cuban Jewish community, his plotting against the state of Israel and his connections with the PLO terrorist wing, it was puzzling and insulting to the Jewish community, including the Cuban Jews in exile, when Israel's Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau visited Cuba in 1974. On that occasion Lau said of Castro, "He is a great friend of the Jewish people. Anti-Semitism is extremely hateful to him." Hello?

Myles Kantor, in his April 2, 2002, article, "Passover in Cuba," criticizes Jewish organizations in the U.S. like the B'nai B'rith and American ORT for looking the other way regarding the violations of human rights of the Jewish community in Cuba, and for the years of silence on Castro's crimes. Kantor asks of these organizations, why don't they "demand the emancipation of their Cuban brethren?"

"On the contrary," Kantor says, "they pour copious dollars into the regime through 'humanitarian missions' where they stay at luxurious hotels from which ordinary Cubans are excluded. They taste rum and cigars at the Hotel Nacional and feature a photograph of the fatigues-clad pharaoh."

Kantor says that the behavior of these Jewish organizations is a "disgrace." So, let's think about it before we lend a hand to the wrong guy. Keep in mind that Castro's Cuba has been designated as "terrorist" by the U.S. State Department for many years. Cuba shares "honors" with six other rogue nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Syria - all virulently anti-American. Obviously, Castro is in partnership with international terrorism. And this partnership is bonded mainly by anti-Semitism. So there you have it.

Also in the Cuban arena- A Canadian Web site is set up now to circumvent the US Trade Embargo with Cuba.
Democrat President Jimmy Carter is planning a trip to Cuba to discuss the Embargo.

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