Sisters and Brothers:
This issue of the Toronto Forum on Cuba newsletter deals with issues that concern not only friends of Cuba but all of humanity. We all know that the Cuban nation has been under attack by the U.S. government since the 1st day of their victorious revolution in January, 1959. From military and terrorist attacks carried out from U.S. territory and/or by puppet regimes under the U.S. to unleashing an economic warfare -labelled "embargo"- which essentially punishes any and all government and/or individual dealing with Cuba, to psychological warfare through the hiring of mercenaries in order to cause unrest, as was recently reported in the news in reference to the recent plot of using Latin youth to "bring about democracy and civil discourse" to Cuba by the U.S. State Department! Gaza and Palestinians are not any different when it comes to their treatment by the U.S. government and its junior imperialist ally in the middle east, the Zionist Apartheid regime of Israel, which for the past month has received all the support -political, military, psychological and you name it- from the U.S. government, as well as from its very close allies like Canada in the West and the reactionary Arab regimes in the region. The heroic people of Gaza have withstood the deaths and destruction of their livelihoods with the dignity and honour of a nation which is not willing to bow or beg for its rights, which consist of nothing more than to live in peace, in their own land along with Jews, Christians and others. Then, I recently came across the book titled, "ANTISEMITISM Real and Imagined/Responses to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism" by Professor Michael Keefer which puts the nails in the coffin of a reactionary, racist and biased group of parliamentarians from Canada who are hard at work in order to justify the brutalities of the Israeli regime in the name of defending Jewish people. The book very meticulously untangles the lies mounted by these "fighters against anti-Semitism" and proves why the most progressive sections of the Jewish community in Canada and the world over, do not buy such lies and are actively working to expose the crimes of the Zionist regime of Israel. It is a must read for anyone who is looking ahead to forge a movement in solidarity with Gaza/Palestinians and the oppressed anywhere. Last but not least, is the case of the anti-terrorist Cuban Five political prisoners of the empire. Three of whom are still in the dungeons of the U.S. prison system for the "crime" of exposing terrorism carried out from U.S. territory against Cuba and other nations. Yes, I say ‘and other nations’ because a young Italian man who was a permanent resident of Montreal, Fabio di Celmo, was blown to pieces in 1997 by a bomb placed in a Havana hotel. The explosion was the work of mercenaries hired by the self-confessed and convicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA operative trained in C4 explosives, who is walking the streets of Miami a free man today! What a shame! That is why we ask all the friends of Cuba to come out forcefully in solidarity with Gaza this Sunday August 10th because we believe Gerardo Hernández, of the Cuban Five, when he said that "only a jury of millions will bring us home to our loved ones." Or when René González, a freed Cuban Five in Havana, said when receiving the Nelson Mandela award: "We accept this award as part of our commitment in the battle to bring back Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero. We have to keep fighting against the injustices that still exist, which are many and brutal like the Israeli aggression that is perpetrated these days against the Gaza Strip." For more info regarding all the above issues please check our website. Take care and have a nice day. Brotherly, Morteza Gorgzadeh Toronto Forum on Cuba www.torontoforumoncuba.com [email protected]
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