[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10989]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         FIDEL CASTRO'S ANTI-SEMITIC STATEMENT REGARDING ISRAEL

  (Mr. SIRES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SIRES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my outrage at Fidel 
Castro's recent anti-Israel comments. In response to Israel's 
interception of the flotilla in May, Fidel Castro published a statement 
in which he absurdly asserts that Israelis would like to send 
Palestinians to be cremated, as the Nazis did to the Jews.
  Castro's comments are outrageous and cruel. He ignorantly disregards 
the horror of the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish community. 
To suggest that Israel will consider a Nazi-inspired genocide of the 
Palestinians is inexcusably malicious.
  This propaganda was not only published by the Cuban regime but then 
widely distributed. His offensive comments clearly portray the 
prejudice and anti-Semitic position of the Cuban regime. Castro's words 
cannot shame or erase the democratic tradition in Israel and the strong 
relationship Israel shares with the United States.
  I ask my colleagues to continue to work with Israel towards a 
peaceful solution for the Israeli and Palestinian people. And I 
encourage my colleagues to view Castro's comments for what they are, 
the dangerous scheme of a brutal dictator, designed to hurt the people 
of Israel and obstruct the peace process.

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