Hollywood liberals' fantasy world: Dennis Campbell pounds celebs for adulation of Castro

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, April 17, 2004 | Dennis Campbell

[Southack]

June 6, 2002, 8:45 a.m.
Israel’s Forgotten Enemy
It’s Fidel Castro.

By Myles Kantor

ttacks of Palestinian resistance activists in Israeli territory" is how a state-controlled newspaper recently euphemized suicide massacres. Its headlines on Israel in 2002 have included:

"Israeli soldiers sack, torture and execute police and civilians in West Bank" (April 8)
"Sharon announces continuation of Palestinian holocaust" (April 9)
"Israeli repression continues" (April 20)
"Israeli troops invade Hebron and kill 8 Palestinians" (April 30)

This reeks of Saudi Arabia's Ar-Riyadh or Egypt's Al-Ahram, but the source is much closer to America: Cuba's Granma International.

In April, Granma also referred to "the genocidal actions of the Israeli army" and included a photograph of an anti-Israel rally with the poster, "SHARON=HITLER." Granma's caption below the photograph read, "The poster says it all. It is a certainty that crosses the world."

Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime has Nazified Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War; Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations described Israel's preemptive strike against imminent Arab belligerence as a "surprise attack in the Nazi manner." In 1988, Cuba published The Other Face: The Truth about the Secret Relationships between Nazism and Zionism by Mahmud Abbas (a.k.a., Abu Mazzen, secretary general of the PLO's executive committee). Abbas disputes the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis and claims that Zionists murdered more than the Nazis. The cover of The Other Face connects a swastika with the Star of David.

When he's not accusing Israel of Nazism, Castro has been a reliable ally of anti-Zionist violence and propaganda. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Castro deployed thousands of troops including tank commanders and pilots to aid Syrian aggression against Israel. Yasser Arafat visited Cuba in 1974 and received its highest honor, the National Order of the Bay of Pigs.

In 1975, the United Nations passed an infamous resolution that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination." Cuba was on the side of the anti-Zionists, and Granma praised the resolution for demonstrating "the identical imperialist origins and racist structure of the Israeli Zionist regime that is occupying Palestine and the one that is exploiting the black masses in South Africa." The U.N. repealed the resolution in 1991, which Cuba opposed.

The Cuban embassy in Beirut was Arafat's headquarters during Israel's campaign to rout the brutal PLO mini-state in southern Lebanon. Neil C. Livingstone and David Halevy write in Inside the PLO, "Many of the PLO fighters captured by the Israelis during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon had been provided with advanced training in Cuba, including various special operations and demolitions courses."

Castro's aid to Israel's enemies continues to this day. Irving Louis Horowitz notes in the spring issue of The National Interest that "Training and arming Palestinians from the PLO forces [by Cuba] is ongoing." Granma admitted as much on March 30: "Cuba reiterates its full support for the heroic struggle of the Arab peoples, in particular that of the Palestinians, against Israeli occupation and aggression, and declares its solidarity with their resistance and defiance [emphasis added]."

And have Jewish organizations denounced Castro's demonization of the Jewish homeland and sponsorship of its enemies?

A visit to the Anti-Defamation League's website finds reports and press releases on anti-Zionism in Arab media but nothing on Cuban anti-Zionism. Cuban Jews' silence is understandable; to criticize Granma or Castro risks being charged with "crimes" like "enemy propaganda" and "disrespect."

In addition to being the most anti-Zionist regime in the Western hemisphere, Cuba is one of only seven regimes classified by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism. While chronically histrionic, Fidel Castro is no mere buffoon. This autocrat perpetrates savagery internally and promotes it abroad. Friends of America and Israel should be mindful of this menace.

— Myles Kantor is director of the Center for Free Emigration.

[FITZ]

Liberalism is a form of mental illness.

It sure seems like it. Hollywood celebrities wear $30,000 designer gowns to attend some liberal feel-good celebrity cause. Martin Sheen sleeping on the sidewalk with the bums is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of the celebrities --- he would not have dreamed of inviting the bums into his luxurious mansion where they might be comfortable sleeping in a bed. It's all for show.

[Minuteman23]

Thanks for the ping.

This would be better titled ".......for adulation of Castro, Mao, Lenin, Stalin ....."

[blackie]

Fantasy World ~ Bump!

[Valin]

Oh I'm sure she has a heart. My question is, does she have a brain?

[Valin]

FYI
On This Day In History
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[mean lunch lady]

Wow, I didn't realize that it was that long ago, I was 11 then so I don't have a clear memory of everything that happened but I do remember that even the kids in Ft. Laud were aware of the sadness and the sympathy many people felt for the Cuban people. We knew some doctors and other profesionals who had to leave everything behind them to get out and then they had to qualify to practice all over again in the US. It took courage to leave when you were the privileged class and could have stayed in luxury.

[Victoria Delsoul]

But what is most puzzling about liberals is their undisguised love for tyrants, from brutish communist dictator Joseph Stalin a half-century ago to Fidel Castro, the murderous thug who has enslaved the Cuban people for the past 44 years.

Myriad opinions are offered as to why this is, but perhaps the clue lies in Hollywood, where nearly everyone is left-leaning, often far left.

That's right. Leftist sympathizers whose ability to think is limited, often live a double standard life in order to maintain their philosophy and keep their possessions in place. They praise oppressors and tyrants while they live in freedom; they hate those who make money while they get richer. I don't think it's quite a fantasy disconnected from reality, because they don't stop doing what they're doing in order to live well and enjoy freedom, but it is definitely a dishonest and distorted way of thinking.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Film director Steven Spielberg called his time with Castro "the eight most important hours of my life," and said of Cuba: "I feel so much at home here. I hope to come back many times in the future."

*Ping

This makes no sense. I will never understand these Hollywood people. How could Spielberg have made "Saving Private Ryan" and then make comments like this?

[Valin]

I will never understand these Hollywood people.

That's probably a good thing. The sad thing is, in the circles he moves in this is not a particularly outrageous thing to say.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

How could Spielberg have made "Saving Private Ryan" and then make comments like this?

Because Spielberg isn't stupid. He's not a raving, foaming at the mouth, anti-Bush liberal like 95% of Hollywood is. He knows what people in fly-over country like and he makes his movies that appeals to them.

Also has a geunine appreciation for the military. I read that when he was younger he'd spend his free time reading WWII books and articles.