CUBA FACTS
Issue 23 - August 2006
Cuba Facts is an ongoing series of succinct fact sheets on various topics, including, but not limited to, political structure, health, economy, education, nutrition, labor, business, foreign investment, and demographics, published and updated on a regular basis by the Cuba Transition Project staff.
Cuba on Israel and the Lebanese Conflict
Not even the Nazis undertook a retaliation of such proportions against a
civilian population.
Israel: Mass Retaliation, Radio Habana Cuba, July 1, 2006.
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/comentarios/julio06/comentario01julio.htm
The Israeli military counts on the total support of the
government of the American President George W. Bush in their attempt to control
Lebanon, as part of a large economic and oil-producing zone of the Middle East.
Bombardeos israelíes contra Líbano impiden ayuda humanitaria, Granma,
August 9, 2006.
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2006/08/09/interna/artic13.html
The real purpose are the hegemonic plans of Tel Aviv and
Washington in the region to dominate all the energy resources in the area…Also
in Gaza the Israeli Army commits genocide and has left a humanitarian
catastrophe.
Agresión a Líbano: Un Plan Sionista, Mesa Redonda, July 18,
2006.
http://www.mesaredonda.cu/noticia.asp?id=4111
…in Gaza the army of Israel proceeds with its work of
extermination, with more than a hundred and fifty Palestinians dead and 1,500
wounded, mostly children, in less than a month. This attack is part of the
fascist designs over the Palestinian people, which proclaim the alleged Israeli
right over all of the lands of that Arab population.
Terrorismo sionista impune en Medio Oriente, Mesa Redonda, July
28, 2006.
http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/mesas2006/mesa28-07-06.htm
The Zionist regime has shielded itself this time behind
the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier to…intensify their genocide of the
Palestinian people.
Intensifica Israel genocidio del pueblo palestino, Radio Habana Cuba,
June 30, 2006.
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/comentarios/junio06/comentario30junio2.htm
Qana will be a symbol of cruelty and barbarity, no less
than Auschwitz for example, or the multitudinous crimes of the European colonies
and American slavery…The water converted into blood that is running through Qana
today is not the work of any miracle. They are another disastrous chapter, as
immune as the others, of Zionist racism, happily exercised by the pilots of some
modern aircraft of U.S. manufacture.
Blood Wedding in Qana, Granma Internacional, August 1, 2006.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar1/gana.html
The indignation grows throughout the world and will not
cease until an end is put to the holocaust suffered by the Lebanese and
Palestinian people...
Ricardo Alarcón, Qana, Granma Internacional, August 1, 2006.
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/ingles/opinion/art44.html
The [armaments] with which this genocide is being
committed, are supplied by the United States… With rare exceptions, the European
Union has served as an accomplice and has accepted the bland statements imposed
by the Empire on the other side of the Atlantic.
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, August 4, 2006.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier4/33minrex-i.html
Israel, violating all the norms of international law,
militarily assaults a sovereign country under the spurious pretext of
“protecting their security,” with the economic and military support and the
flagrant complicity and perfidy of the government of the United States which
guarantees the impunity of the aggressor regime…To that is added the shameful
and cowardly passivity of the European Union.
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, July 14, 2006.
http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2006/julio/sabado15/declaracion.html
What the United States and its right-hand executor,
Israel, believed would be another shameless victory was a total rejection and a
significant defeat in response to the genocide inflicted on Lebanon.
Israeli Army begins withdrawing from Lebanon, Granma Internacional,
August 16, 2006.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mier16/34retirol.html
Faced with the barbarity which is being carried out by the military hordes of
the Israeli government, against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, the
Permanent Commission of International Relations of the National Assembly of the
People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba, together with numerous organizations and
personalities from all over the world, express their most energetic condemnation
and urge the immediate ceasing of such a horrendous and shameless action, a
genocide, which challenges universal public opinion, laughs at the United
Nations and threatens to invade other countries, reminiscent of the era of
Nazism.
Declaration of the International Relations Committee of the National
Assembly of the People’s Power, July 23, 2006.
http://www.granma.co.cu/2006/07/25/interna/artic02.html
Israel will not be the exception. The myth of her
invulnerability, fabricated by themselves and spread by their powerful allies,
began in 1948, when they made the world believe that a militia of colonists
installed in Palestine could defeat five Arab armies. The legend grew when the
arrogant Jews, armed to the teeth by the United States and allied with France
and Great Britain, defeated Egypt in 1956…
Líbano: Quién Vencerá a Quién?, Radio Habana Cuba, Agosto 7,
2006.
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/comentarios/agosto06/comentario7agosto.htm
Granma is the official newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party. Radio Habana Cuba is
one of the state-run radio stations on the island. All media in Cuba is owned
and controlled by the government.
The CTP can be contacted at P.O. Box 248174, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-3010, Tel: 305-284-CUBA (2822), Fax: 305-284-4875, and by email at mailto:ctp.iccas@miami.edu?. The CTP Website is accessible at http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/.
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