Cuba left to hang as Zionist lobby pulls strings in DC
Cuba left to hang as Zionist lobby pulls strings in DC
By Eamonn McCann – 05 November 2014
Palau has defected from America. The loss won't have alarmed the White House, but may have triggered a slight frisson of anxiety. The Republic of Palau comprises a cluster of tiny islands in the western Pacific, total population around 20,000. Until last week it was one of five members of the United Nations to vote consistently against annual resolutions calling for the lifting of the US embargo on Cuba.
The embargo's other supporters have been Israel, Micronesia (population 107,00) and the Marshall Islands (66,000). This year the three Pacific states abstained, leaving the US and Israel alone against the world.
The embargo was imposed 52 years ago under the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act (TWEA). The action followed confirmation by U2 spy plane surveillance of the presence in Cuba of ballistic missiles, installed by the USSR in response to the previous year's Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by CIA-sponsored right-wing Cubans.
After a 13-day stand-off, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev agreed to remove the missiles in return for an undertaking by the US to remove missiles based in Italy and Turkey, targeted on Moscow and other Soviet cities.
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