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style="font-family:Verdana;font-weight:700" lang="EN-US"><font>ARTICLE
BY FIDEL</font></span><span style="font-family:Georgia"
lang="EN-US"><br>
<b><font size="5">Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza<br>
</font><font>• I again request that Granma not use the
front page for these relatively brief lines about the
genocide of Palestinians being committed<br>
<font color="#004080"><br>
Fidel Castro Ruz</font></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">I again request
that Granma not use the front page for these relatively
brief lines about the genocide of Palestinians being
committed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">I am writing them
rapidly, to state only that which requires deep reflection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">I think that a
new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable
strength, at this time in human history when more that seven
billion inhabitants are struggling for their survival.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">None of these
circumstances have anything to do with the creation of the
Roman Empire, around 2,400 years ago, or with the U.S.
empire which, in this region only 200 years ago, was
described by Simón Bolívar who exclaimed, “…the United
States appears to be destined by providence to plague
America with misery in the name of liberty.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">England was the
first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large
part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North
America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of
the 20th century.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">On this occasion I
will not talk about the wars and crimes committed by the
United States empire over more than 100 years, but will only
state what it wanted to do to Cuba, what it has done to many
other countries in the world, and only served to prove that
“A just idea in the depth of a cave is stronger than an
army.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">History is much
more complicated than everything I have said, but that is
the way it is, in broad strokes, as the inhabitants of
Palestine know, and it is likewise logical that the modern
communications media reflect the news which arrives daily,
as has occurred with the shameful, criminal war in the Gaza
Strip, a piece of land where the population lives in what
remains of what was independent Palestine only 50 years ago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">The French agency
AFP reported August 2, “The war between the Islamist
Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel has caused the deaths
of close to 1,800 Palestinians,… the destruction of
thousands of homes, and ruined an economy which was already
weakened,” although it does not indicate, of course, who
initiated the terrible war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">Added later, “… As
of Saturday at midday the Israeli offensive had killed 1,712
Palestinians and injured 8,900. The United Nations was able
to verify the identities of 1,117 dead, in their majority
civilians … UNICEF counted at least 296 dead minors.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">“The United Nations
estimates …some 58,900 persons homeless in the Gaza Strip.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">“Ten of the 32
hospitals were closed and another 11 damaged.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">“This Palestinian
enclave of 362 km² does not have the infrastructure needed
for 1.8 million inhabitants, above all in terms of the
provision of electricity and water.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">“According to the
IMF, the rate of unemployment surpasses 40% in the Gaza
Strip, territory subjected to an Israeli blockade since
2006. In 2000, unemployment was 20%, and in 2011, 30%. More
than 70% of the population depends on humanitarian aid
during normal periods, according to Gisha.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">The Israeli
government declared a humanitarian truce in Gaza at 07:00
GMT on Monday, nevertheless within a few hours, it broke the
truce attacking a house, injuring 30 persons, in their
majority women and children, and an eight-year-old girl
died.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">In the dawn hours
of this same day, 10 Palestinians died as a result of
Israeli attacks in all of Gaza and the number of
Palestinians murdered has already increased to 2,000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">The killing has
reached the point that, “French Minister of Foreign Affairs
Laurent Fabius stated this Monday that Israel’s right to
security does not justify the massacre of civilians taking
place.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">The Nazi genocide
of Jews outraged all the earth’s peoples. Why does this
government believe that the world will be insensitive to the
macabre genocide which today is being perpetuated against
the Palestinian people? Perhaps it is expected that the
complicity of the U.S. empire in this shameful massacre will
be ignored?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">The human species
is living in an unprecedented stage of history. A crash
between military planes or warships which are closely
watched, or other similar events could unleash a conflict
with the use of sophisticated, modern weapons, which could
become the last known adventure of Homo sapiens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">There are events
which reflect the almost total inability of the United
States to face the world’s current problems. It can be
stated that there is no government in this country, no
Senate, no Congress, CIA or Pentagon which will determine
the final outcome. It is truly sad that this should happen
when the dangers are so great, but the opportunities to move
forward are great as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">When the great
patriotic war took place, Russian citizens defended their
country like Spartans, underestimating them was the worse
error made by the United States and Europe. Their closest
allies, the Chinese, who like the Russians achieved their
victory on the basis of the same principles, constitute
today the earth’s most dynamic economic force. Countries
want yuan and not dollars to acquire goods and technology,
and increased trade.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">New, indispensable
forces have emerged. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa - establishing links with Latin America and the
majority of countries in the Caribbean and Africa struggling
for development – constitute the forces which in our era are
willing to collaborate with the rest of the world’s
countries, without excluding the United States, Europe or
Japan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">Blaming the Russian
Federation for the in-flight destruction of the Malaysian
airplane is a stunning oversimplification. Not Vladímir
Putin, nor Serguéi Lavrov, Russia’s minister of Foreign
Relations, or any other leader of this government would ever
come up with such nonsense.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">Twenty-six million
Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the
Nazis. Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a
millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and
an invincible spirit of struggle. Xi Jinping is one of the
strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met
in my life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">Fidel Castro Ruz</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">August 4, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span
style="font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-US">10: 45 p.m.</span></p>
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