BIZARRE PROVOCATION
This morning news cables were saturated with the bizarre
news of a Malaysia Airlines plane
being shot down at an altitude of
Cuba, always in solidarity with the Ukrainian people
and in the difficult days following the Chernobyl tragedy caring for the health
of many children affected by the harmful radiation of the accident, and who will
always be ready to keep on doing this, cannot pass by the opportunity to
declare its repudiation of the action by that anti-Russian, anti-Ukrainian,
pro-imperialist government.
And coinciding
with the crime against the Malaysian plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
head of a nuclear state, was ordering his army to invade the Gaza Strip where,
in the space of a few days, hundreds of Palestinians, many of them children,
had already died. The President of the
As we know, young Israeli men and women, well trained
for productive work, will be exposed to dying without honor or glory. I am unaware of what the Palestinian military
doctrine will be but I do know that a combatant ready to die can defend the
ruins of a building while he still has his rifle, as the heroic defenders of
I only wish to put on record my solidarity with the
heroic people who defend the final vestiges of what once was their homeland for
thousands of years.
Fidel Castro Ruz
July 17, 2014
11:14 p.m.