“Yes it does, without a doubt,” Castro, 84, told visiting US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine, according to a new article published Wednesday.

In the same interview Castro criticized Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and said in an interview Tehran should acknowledge Israel’s fears for its own survival.

I’ve had similar experiences. I didn’t realise at the time the reason was they are so hyper-racial that *all* white people are guilty of everything every white person has ever done.

Some of them feel the need to rationalize it a bit by saying things like Britain should have attacked Germany earlier so that’s why it’s our fault but in reality they’re just the world’s biggest racists.

Which is both the secret of their success and why it always goes wrong.

A few years back I had a jewish girlfriend, from a very secular family. I dont when her ancestors settled in Britain but it had to be a few generations back, well before WW2. They seemed pretty well anglicised to my eyes.

I rarely discussed history or politics with her. As with most girls, jewish or otherwise, these subjects are, of course, ‘boring’.

However one day we did get to talking about WW2, nazis, holocaust etc.

Until that point I had assumed, as a good liberal, that we, the Brits & jews were all on the same side, we had all suffered in the war. Both my grandfathers had seen military service, both had suffered injury, ships sinking. My father and grandmother had survived a German bomb exploding just the house in 1940. My mother’s very earliest memories of V1 attacks in ’44.

So while not daring, naturally, to equate my families experience with the holocaust I felt there should be at least some sort of rough and ready acknowledgemnt that my family, my people in general had paid their dues when it came to the nazi era.

But no, it seems not. I was firmly put in my place by my girlfriend, my lover, that my people were just as bad as the nazis. In her mind there was little distinction.

This from a girl whose family were relentlessly middle brow, I cant imagine them ever spending a lot of time discussing history and politics round the dinner table, they certainly never did when I was around – which was a lot. But clearly they had taken the time on this subject at sometime.

This still didnt wake me up, like many guilty liberals I actually became complicit. I didnt report this breathtaking chutzpah on her part to anyone, I chose to overlook it as just a one girl’s opinion. How could I say such a thing to my liberal friends, to my parents? In effect I covered for her – and her tribe by not reporting honestly.

As I became really aware of the whole JQ and holohoax some years later I then felt no compulsion to cover up this attitude of hers. One which I now realise is commonplace.

Likewise Poles, and Whites in general. It’s a race-based libel, a stereotype, a canard – it goes hand in hand with guilt-tripping us about colonization, Manifest Destiny, slavery. “The jews” would recognize and object to this if they actually considered themselves White. They don’t.

That’s because nobody challenges the assumption that Poles and Germans are still presumptively genocidal antisemites, so that asking Jews to go those countries is the same as asking them to submit to another genocide.

I’d need to do a compilation piece like yours to back that up, but the assumption that “you know what that means” is built into some of the “shocked gasp!” reactions to what Helen Thomas said. It minimum, it’s assumed to be rational for Jews to be horrified and offended on that basis.

After all their apologies, payments in restitution and so on, Germans are still unclean. Germans who were not even born when Hitler was alive are still unclean.

Israel carries on a foreign policy that assumes it need take no heed of its neighbors’ sentiments, on the basis of armed forces that are in significant part German-built (and it demands yet more freebies from Germany), and the Germans are still not getting clean.

– Daybreaker