Cuba Demands UN Stop Sharon's Final Solution

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Cuba Demands U.N. Halt Israeli "Genocide"

[quotation marks courtesy of Reuters. In fact, Cuba has been
perhaps the most courageous opponents of Sharon's Final Solution.]

HAVANA, March 31 (Reuters) - Cuba demanded the United Nations stop
Israel's "bloody offensive" against Palestinians on Sunday, backing
their "resistance and rebellion against occupation" and charging
Israel with genocide.

A Foreign Ministry statement, carried by the state-run media, said:
"Cuba demands a more energetic action by the international community,
and in particular the U.N. Security Council, to stop the massacre and
genocide being carried out by the Israeli army."

The Cuban government said Israel's move into Palestinian territory,
and siege of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, was a response to
the Arab League's peace initiative at last week's Beirut Summit.

"The response of the Ariel Sharon government, supported and financed
by the United States, has been death and destruction, making clearer
than ever before its opposition to a Palestinian state," Cuba said,
in its first official reaction to spiraling violence between Israelis
and Palestinians.

The statement made no mention of the recent wave of suicide bombings
carried out by Palestinians against Israeli civilians, instead
reiterating Cuba's "complete support of the heroic Arab people's
struggle, and specially of Palestine."

12:20 03-31-02
 
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