Fidel Castro, still dictator of Cuba, even if his brother’s usually out front, said this yesterday: “The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis.” As I said in a blog post last night, it’s kind of interesting to see that Castro doesn’t deny the Holocaust. Anyway, he went on, “It would seem that the Fuehrer’s swastika is today Israel’s banner.” Okay. And a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yigal Palmor, said, “With these outrageous comments, Fidel Castro shames his old-time companions and the ideals he always pretended to serve. Che Guevara must be spinning in his grave.” In the aforementioned blog post, I said, “The Israeli Foreign Ministry is either too cute by half or moronic.” And I have received word from the ministry — from Palmor himself — that the remark was meant to be “ironic,” a joke on admirers of the Cuban revolution.