SOURCE: (Prensa Latina) The Cuban ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, Sergio Martínez, called for increased global solidarity with Palestine, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced today.
According to a notice published on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Martínez urged people to reject the massacre perpetrated by the Israeli army during a mass celebrated at the Church of San Francisco de Asís.
In his speech, the diplomat asked how many children and defenseless beings should die, how many schools and hospitals should be destroyed, to stop the genocide against Palestine and other countries in the region.
He also recalled that the “Cuban Revolution has always been a tireless defender of peace, peaceful coexistence and the right of the Palestinian people to independence, as established by the resolutions of the United Nations.”
The ceremony was attended, among others, by members of the government of Antigua and Barbuda, members of the diplomatic and consular corps accredited in the country and representatives of institutions of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people.
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Though I can appreciate the support for Palestine, I cannot say the same for Hamas,who provoked this response, and Hezbollah who invited themselves into the conflict. The war would not have started if Hamas did not brazenly “invade” Israel and took hostages. With all this is going on, so many Palestinians dying, no movement from Hamas that could bring this matter to an end. True, at this stage it would mean the end of Hamas but, so what? Is it better to just let your people die? The same can be said of Hezbollah. What did they think would have been the effects on Lebanon? Or, did they think at all? That is the problem up there. All are consumed with seeking their desired outcome without regard for the people to whom they claim that they are their defenders.
I am not giving Israel any thumbs up here but really, if Israel give up the West bank it would in quick time become like Gaza and Southern Lebanon, with it’s maze of tunnels where the leaders will hide while leaving the rest of the population to die for a war they did not start. Once they entrenched enough, rockets would fly over the wall into Israel.
There are no easy solutions here but, perhaps Palestinians should be given a book on Mahatma Ghandi or Martin Luther King jr. So that they might try to find a non-violent solution. Their present solution of trying to force Israel into the sea is not working and won’t be for a very long time.
Hold on…invading and killing 1200 Israelis and kidnapping 200 in one day is not a massacre? They fire thousands of rockets which cost Israel billions to shoot down and when they take out a single terrorist it’s a big story. Everybody jumping on this international bandwagon and forgetting that these places are recorded in world history as being places INSIDE Israel. When the Jews were persecuted by Hitler they had no choice but to return to where they had been living for thousands of years. They have made every effort to live in peace with the Arabs but how secure can you be with enemies both without and within?
Totally agreed with “Massacre?”
Ditto and well said!!
Do you guys know of the systematic disappearance of Palestinians…perpetrated by the Israelis….FOR YEARS!!! Imaging, your Father, brother, Uncle…just go missing….Your Electricity and water suppressed…You have a seashore line and you cannot go out to fish…Your land, that was parceled out to you have been encroached upon…YEARLY… to make housing for Israelis…
Just have a conversation with a Palestinian….
The You have been washed by the western media…hence your
RATIONALITY OF REASONS: …IRRATIONALITY OF CALL: WATER/ELECTRICITY DIPLOMACY?
Entering into no arguments for:
(a) ‘…PRO-PALESTINIAN RECOGNITION OF NATIONHOOD: nor
(b) …CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT.’
QUESTION
‘…Just how does a nation ‘…Support Attrocities of Terror: …By Terrorists: in producing ‘…Terrorism,’ then euphemistically calls it ‘…DIPLOMACY?’
WATER AND ELECTRICITY DIPLOMACY
It is certainly not about ‘…Pumping Water from Potworks Dam’ and ‘…Generating Electricity.’
IT MAY DO FORMER ÁNTIGUA PUBLIC AUTHORITY (APUA) GENERAL MANAGER, HIS EXCELLENCY, PETER BENJAMIN: AND …THIS NATION ‘…WELL,’ TO LEAVE ‘…WELL’ ALONE.’
First of all, the UN treaty penned on the establishment of Israel was done under the recognized State of Palestine, and this is the thanks the Palestinians get for opening up their hearts and homes to the Jews from Europe, who supposedly, were traumatized by what they just went through during WWII. So, while the Palestinians thought they were extending a helping hand, nefarious, devious snakes were actually using this charlatan excuse to unsuspectingly, and under the cover of law, in effect, invade Palestine, claim Palestinian land as their own, establish the State of Israel using brutal acts of terrorism by forcibly expelling Palestinians not just from their own homes, but also from their lands, and to then dissolve and make null and void the recognized State of Palestine. Can you imagine that??! The whole village got together, felt sorry for this homeless beggar, decided you were in the best position to help the beggar, you agreed, then invited him graciously into your home, and then this beggar turned around, abused and terrorized you, while at the same time lying to others that it was YOU who were terrorizing him and then kicked you out of your own home. The beggar then called Police, to complain that you are threatening him in “his” house, and got you banned from your house and land, now you’re the one homeless and begging, and anytime you raise your voice on this injustice, the people in the village say you’re just a troublemaker, and how you’ve been making trouble for that poor, poor, man (in your house) for years now, and that you deserve what you get for all the trouble you’ve caused that poor, poor man and all his nice family he has called to come and live in “his” house. Ain’t that some shit? Beat that Diddy!
@zackie The European Israelites left Europe in 1948 and met the Palestine there in their land, they are settlers and colonizers.
They took over and started to oppress the Palestine people, the Israelites are an apartheid State, the only countries that support them are the western colonizers Governments, because the weapon builders in the west are making big money from these wars.
Hamas are Palestines fighting for their freedom from an oppress apartheid State, the same way the ANC was fighting against the South Africa apartheid regime, but on a different level.
On October 7th most of the Israelites that was massacre was done by the IDF to prevent Hamas from taking more hostages than they did take.
That is how the IDF regime operates , they bomb Hospitals, children, women, the UN peace keepers, journalists, schools, they also killed hostages that escaped from Hamas and was waving white flags, have you being hearing of Israelites killing mostly Hamas fighters, they said Palestines are less than human, so they bomb them all, committing genocide.
Nelson Mandela said Africa will not be totally free until the Palestines are free.
@Geopolitical issues it affects our lives in more ways than one. EXACTLY!!!
Massacre? & Zackie have no clue as to the plight of the Palestinians. Their utterings are based on emotions and not History…or truth. And I can never decipher what Pompey is scribbling..in fact I never really take the time..
PUFF DADDY OR PUFFING SMOKE? …KEEP ON PUFFING: …NO ARGUMENTS
Did say there were to be ‘…NO ARGUMENTS.’
PUFFING
It matters what they are.
Be they:
(i) ‘…Puff Daddy:
(ii) …Puffing Powder: or simply
(iii) …PUFFFING SMOKE,’ be and ‘…PUFF’ any darn thing.
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE.
Be it ‘…SCRIBBLING’ or otherwise:
(i) ‘…No ranting nor raving: and
(ii) …Rawlston Pompey’ takes ‘…NO RESPONSIBILITY’ for any ‘…LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.’
Even so, ‘…RESPECTING’ the views of ‘…PUFF DADDY.’
If it’s your forte, ‘…KEEP PUFFING, DADDY.’
@Geopolitical… well stated. You were able to bring out the points made by Puff Daddy.
@Puff Daddy – you are on the right track. Like you, most of the time I can’t bother with Pompey’s statements, not sure if they are revenant either. He is an intelligent man but he too has been brain washed by the western media.
This Cuban person is flapping of the mouth.No one in CUBA could speak freely in Public to oppose the Government and live to tell about it.HAMAS,attacked innocent young people having fun at an open concert in a park.The world did not condemned HAMAS and their financial donors.Israel fought back and you people are coming down on them.I am so glad Israel is not listening.If anyone attacked me.I have a right to respond by any means that suits me.Israel has that right,also.When are Cubans going to be able to speak their minds in public?
It is true..Also…In Cuba they use the word “Palestino” to denigrate people f4om the Eastern paet of the country..All people from Swntiago or Guantanamo is being called “Palestinos” in Habana..They have a literary Apartheid in Habana against any cuban citizens from other province..They cannot work in Habana easily…They have one single ideology allowed legally and morally..Nobody can speak openly against it. They are just playing a propaganda to move the attention of the economic disaster they have..They are against free market..They want everything to be under the strict control of the State. One Family is the Feudal owner of everything.
Stop pretending that we can understand Middle East conflicts..We shouldn’t take a side in those conflicts..Is pure ignorance we trying to understand them better than them and taking sides..
We have too much problems over here to be using our energy in foreigns conflicts.
I agree with you @Wharf Rat
There is no justification for what Hamas did. It’s interesting that we’re in bed with all these governments who silence people in their own countries then want us to help “oppressed” people. The gullibility of our government is astounding! HAMAS, A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WAS DEAD WRONG ON THIS ONE! Now that war has come to them they have enlisted the entire world against Israel. I just know that if my child was one that was massacred I would want justice for them!
WHARF RAT, perhaps you should look into the history of this conflict instead of taking your lesson from zionist controlled, bias US media.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Puff Daddy has the audacity to suggest to others to read history books..whilst his diatribe waffles on about a beggar in a house. The only hint of ‘history books’ in his/her ramblings would be Mein Kampf with the choice of words such as ‘nefarious, devious snakes’ to describe a people.
Jews have continuously lived in Israel for over 3,500 years, according to all archaeological and historical evidence. If the Jews occupied Arab land, how did they manage to build both their Temples underneath the Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock?
Despite a decline in the number of Jews after the Roman conquest, Jews lived throughout the years in the Land of Israel, which was called Palestine but was never a state named Palestine, only a region.
Jews were persecuted under dhimmi laws whilst living in the Islamic lands of the Middle East. They were massacred for being Jews, including within the Holy Land long before Israel existed. October 7th is another example of Arab lust for Jewish blood. Massacres:
1834 – Looting of Safed
1886 – Petah Tikva pogrom
1908 – Jaffa massacre
1920 – Nebi Musa pogrom
1921 – Jaffa massacre
1920 – Tel-Hai massacre
1921 – Bnai Yehuda massacre
1921 – Metula massacre
1920-1921 – Dganai massacre
1921 – Menaheima massacre
1921 – Ayelet Ha’shachar massacre
1929 – Jerusalem massacre
1929 – Hebron massacre
1929 – Jaffa massacre
1929 – Gaza massacre
1929 – Nablus massacre
Palestine was a geographical area of the British Mandate. Palestinians as a people were invented in 1964 by the KGB and Yasser Arafat, the Egyptian.They were mostly economic migrants from Egypt and Syria. PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen in 1977 said:
“The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”
(Hope you enjoyed the history lesson Puff Daddy.)
Sergio Martínez does not feel that the massacres of Jews is worthy of a mention. He fails to grasp the term ‘genocide’, or rather he is reading from the Hamas hymn sheet. I suggest Mr Martinez directs his question regarding how many more need to die to the terrorists themselves who occupy the hospitals and schools. Perhaps they could release the hostages?
Finally, the daddy of these terrorists (which include the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas) is the Islamic Republic of Iran. But of course, no mention of this regime whilst making your speech in church. Maybe you haven’t heard of the Islamist slogan “First the Saturday people then the Sunday people”.
Am Yisrael Chai – Right on. It would shock us to know how many Jews have been killed by Hamas. Israel used to collect taxes from Jews and deliver it to the PLO in order to not have the place fall more under Hamas control. The reason Israel has to bomb hospitals and schools is that’s where Hamas stores their weapons as well as the entrances to the tunnels (which they used to invade Israel). Even so, they still try to give them warning before bombing, even going as far as to send an empty bomb to clear the building first (look up Roof Knocking).
The temple mount, is actually under control of the Jordanians at the request of Israel. The Jews are not allowed to go up there and pray in order to prevent conflicts with Arabs. The truth is, this will never end unless Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, and the entire Muslim brotherhood accomplish their goal of driving Israel into the sea. This though, will not happen as the conflict will end in Jesus Christ returning to save them from their enemies (Zechariah 14:4). Are you ready?
Massacre?, correct and you rightly emphasise Israel’s efforts to minimise civilian casualties.This war has the lowest civilian: combatant casualty rate in the history of war, as reported by the chair of urban warfare studies at West Point.
The words of the former PM of Israel, Golda Meir, were true then and are true now:
“If we have to choose between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image”
The First Temple was built 1,662 years BEFORE the Al-Aqsa mosque existed. Yet Jews and Christians are not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount. Meanwhile, accusations of apartheid are levelled at Israel by people that fail to evidence this claim.
It’s refreshing to have discussion with educated individuals. It is also necessary to challenge those amongst us that are ill equipped in terms of knowledge regarding this conflict, yet feel the need to advertise this alongside their hateful rhetoric.
Shalom
None of the 2 parties dare stand in that photo on freedom and sympathies to Palestine, their centrist politics and the white supervision they are subjected to won’t allow it.
But they did just stand there, Eldred, holding the Palestinian flag. I don’t see an Israeli flag in that picture, unless my eyes decieve me🙄
Sounds as if you are suggesting that the ‘Palestinian’ cause represents the suffering of brown/black people, and that Israel is the white oppressor. Such a juvenile perspective, which demonstrates ignorance of the peoples of this region.
Israelis are not ‘white’. Jews were not white enough for Hitler, who applied racial theories to the Jews of Europe. Their blood was not considered ‘Aryan’ enough. Today, Jews come from Yemen, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Iraq..but apparently that’s too ‘white’.
This white oppressor argument is often used as an attempt to attack Israel in conjunction with ‘coloniser’ accusations. The colonisers of this region are the Arabs:
Maronites, Melkite Christians and Druze are the indigenous people of Lebanon.
Coptic Christians are the indigenous people of Egypt.
Assyrian Christians are the indigenous people of Syria.
Assyrian Christians, Yazidis and Mandeans are the indigenous people of Iraq.
Arab Muslims are NOT indigenous to any of these countries!
Last but not least, ask yourself why Palestinians have something known as the ‘Al-Abeed’ quarter for the Afro-Palestinians. ‘Al – Abeed’ means slave. The Arabs were responsible for the Trans- Saharan slave trade which lasted for 17 centuries. Slavery still goes on today in countries such as Sudan, Mauritania, and Libya.Where are the people marching for the victims of the genocide in Sudan, or for the Christians of Nigeria who are being butchered by Jihadists? Is it because they are Black victims, or is it because no Jews means no news?
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