Stinking up Cuba

July 14th, 2006 at 17:12 Björn Hallberg

Strange: Rafi Eitan to inaugurate the Holocaust Memorial in Havana, Cuba. It’s wrong and redundant on so many levels not to mention awkward considering the image as defenders of the Palestinian people that Cuba has gained, as Mary Rizzo notes in special report for Online Journal.

That’s right, it was starting to come to me . . . Rafi Eitan, neo-minister elected in the ranks of the Pensioners’ Party in the latest Israeli elections. Rafi Eitan the Mossad and Shin Bet man, famous for his capture of Eichmann, but also for the planning of the Israeli bombing of the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq, and more than anything, for the Jonathan Pollard Affair, the American he recruited to spy for Israel.

Stranger yet: Despite Israel being the only state to consistently back the US embargo against Cuba, Rafi Eitan owns considerable patches of land in Cuba, including massive citrus groves while acting as a front for Israeli business interests that are sinking millions into the Cuban economy (though not for selfless reasons of course). Well, money talks I suppose.

Oh golly, it would seem I implicitly ‘confused’ ‘Israeli’ with ‘Jewish’ in that first paragraph. Dang. Well, it’s not easy when Ynet does the very same thing though for the opposite reason. Notice how they call the ‘menorah’ an ‘Israeli symbol’ instead of a jewish symbol … wow … and people wonder why critics ‘confuse’ the two.

Also from Online Journal, contributing writer Tom Crumpacker, on the future of Cuba as seen by its future overlords: The transition to oligarchy: planning for the recolonization of Cuba

Nevertheless this plan is much the same as the one for Iraq (which was not publicly articulated beforehand.) By privatizing what used to be done publicly, it will bring Cuba into the modern, civilized world by creating a capitalist utopia where private entrepreneurs from the “international community” (mostly US corporations) and the “Cuban community abroad” (mostly US citizens), unencumbered by societal restraint, will unleash their full creative powers to save the long-suffering Cuban people from continuing poverty and tyranny — while incidentally benefiting themselves.

It would seem there is an elusive thread running through this entire enterprise. The only thing that is clear thus far is that it will be the Cuban people who will bear the brunt when these plans unfold.

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