Castro blasts Iran's Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
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SuperLib
Wow.
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USNinJapan2
LOL. Classic!
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manfromamerica
The Left must be totally confused now... :-D
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kyushujoe
Yes, those all the well-known anti-Semitic, leftists in the KKK, the British National Party and the French National Front must be really perplexed. Goddamn pinkoes.
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manfromamerica
kyushujoe- You are panicking now, hence you're totally irrelevant comment. Here are 2 Leftist icons battling it out. Furthermore, the older one has just undermined the entire Leftwing defense of Ahmadinejad. It's beautiful. :-D
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kurumazaka
For perhaps the first time in my life, I take my hat off for Fidel Castro!
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kyushujoe
@manfromamerica
Not panicking in the least. Just enjoying your latest attempts to prove to yourself that:
"Leftist = Somebody who doesn't agree with manfromamerica." :)
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manfromamerica
zzzz... this lame retort is getting old. Where did I say anything like that? I also frequently criticize Republicans and right-wing posters here. You really need quit pouting.
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sushi
But for some reason, his opinion of someone's alleged anti-semitism is important enough to be in the news.
Basically, he is just saying Ahmandinejad should not deny the Holocaust. Why is this newsworthy?
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Klein2
Hey. A headline that makes you glad you lived another day. Fidel has been around long enough and dodged enough bullets that he can pretty well call them as he sees them.
Left confused? You mean the right is confused. Now every right-winger will have to re-examine everything Fidel has ever said and done. If he is reasonable now, was he unreasonable before? hmmm. Or is he consistently unreasonable?
This left right stuff will break down sooner or later. Countries are lining up according to interests, but those interests have less and less to do with ideology.
Probably Fidel wants Cuba to normalize relations with the US one of these days. A comment like this goes a long way toward getting Florida to pave the way for that to happen. After he dies. Maybe Cuba is getting ready too.
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manfromamerica
TOTALLY agree with you.
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manfromamerica
Who says he's reasonable? He's a communist and a murderer.
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kyushujoe
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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manfromamerica
(It is.)
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moonbeams
manfromamerica,
The only thing that confuses me is your definition of "the left."
Being a progressive has nothing to do with anti-semetic values, or supporting Ahmandinejad or Castro.
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kyushujoe
@moonbeams
"The only thing that confuses me is your definition of "the left.""**
Let me explain it in Japanese baseball terms:
If manfromamerica is a Giants fan, then all Tigers fans are "Neocommunists" and "left-wing nutjobs". Simple!
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manfromamerica
You guys have really strayed off topic, which means you have no answer for anything. Anyway, it's you guys (sabiwabi included) who go into passionate defense of Ahmadinejad's anti-Jewish rants.
Anyway, I guess it's just coincidence then that the Left supports Castro and Ahmadinejad. Blind luck! wow!
As for kyushu - Your analogy assumes then that you are a fan of Castro and Ahmadinejad. I guess I was right. :-D
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WilliB
Wow, trouble in paradise? The brothers-in-hate of the Great Satan USA don´t like each other any more? A scene to behold.
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manfromamerica
WilliB - I just heard that Chavez called them both "ignoramuses"
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USNinJapan2
manfromamerica
That can't be. "Ignoramuses," is a five syllable word, quite beyond Hugo's abilities...
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sushi
There are 25,000 Jews living in Iran, the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel. The Iranian Jews are neither persecuted nor mistreated by the state, in fact the Iranian constitution protects them.
They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections.
They are neither searched at checkpoints, nor brutalized by the army, nor thrown into a densely packed penal colony, nor deprived of basic means for survival.
The office of president Ahmadinejad recently donated money to a Jewish hospital in Tehran.
The MSM make Ahmadinejad to by an anti-Semite, the "new Hitler". But if that were true, then why did most Iranian Jews vote for him at the last presidential elections?
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Mittsu
Fidel speaks for all of us downtrodden Sons and Daughters of Abraham......
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kyushujoe
My goodness, someone's come over all humorous in the last hour. First tipple of the day having an effect, perhaps ;)
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TumbleDry
The guy is coming to his senses. A few more steps will be necessary.
manfromamerica: what is your definition of the left then? The world is not black or white.
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manfromamerica
I'm always in a good mood. Unfortnately the emotions can't be read through the font. Maybe I need to use more or
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manfromamerica
kyushu - I'm always in a good mood. Unfortunately the emotions can't be read through the font. Maybe I need to use more bold or italic.
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WilliB
Sushi:
"Protects them" under Shariah law, which gives them a place as second-class discriminated dhimmis, yes. And 25.000 is a pale shadow of the original Jewish population. What happened?
You really should look beyond Iranian propaganda stats.
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sushi
Its not Iranian propaganda. Do you have any evidence that the Jews of Iran are mistreated, discriminated against, or treated as second-class people; or is this more of the usual Islamophobic propaganda?
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moonbeams
Hold on to your seat. I am Jewish. I support the left. I don't support communists.
AND...
I see regimes like Ahmadinejad's as the furthest extension of the right. But I don't equate it to your right.
Look man, stop seeing the world in left VS right. You're just going to end up placing people in 2D categories and in the end you'll have a hard time communicating with people.
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sushi
What anti-Jewish rants? He is very critical of Israel, and rightly so, but what exactly has he said that is anti-Jewish. Its my understanding that he has nothing against Jews. The only thing brought up in the article that could in any way be distorted into something anti-Jewish is his Holocaust "denial". I happen to agree with his statements related to the holocaust, they are in no way anti-Jewish views.
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MistWizard
Communism is more like the horse he rode in on. He does not give a crap about communism. He is a megalomaniac just like Stalin and Mao and many others who rode communism to power. Luckily, the good ideas of communism found a home in socialism which is doing just fine thanks.
This news will confound the simple minded who can only see right and left. Yes, the political spectrum also has depth! And most conservatives on JT still don't!
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manfromamerica
sushi, not only do you not read the news, but you obviously don't read other's posts either. Check out some of sabiwabi's comments from the last 2 days. You'll see him blaming "the Jews", not the "zionists" or the "Israelis" like the used to.
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sushi
I do, and its always the same as this article. They accuse him of anti-Semitism for things he says or is alleged to have said, but I have yet to see anything "anti-Jewsih" in Ahmadinejad's comments. And I see that you are unable to provide one example of an "anti-Jewish rant".
I checked out several of his/her comments; its crystal clear that he/she is criticizing Israel, not Jews. Again, I see that you are unable to provide one example of an anti-Jewish comment by Sabiwabi.
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manfromamerica
I didn't say he said that.
Then you didn't check very hard, because you would have clearly read him blaming "you Jews". Unless even the Mod got sick of it and removed the posts, which is a possibility. They were quite offensive.
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Helter_Skelter
Socialists and Islamists are usually allied. This is really unexpected. Kudos to Castro.
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manfromamerica
so you admit it was anti-Jewish. Case closed.
wow, that was easy! :-D
Moderator: Readers, please focus your comments on the topic, not at or about each other.
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sabiwabi
So there is still nothing in the article or in posted comments about Ahmadinejad's anti-Semitism. The only thing mentioned is that he "denies" the holocaust. People who only rely on headlines, too many I'm afraid, will get the wrong impression.
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