It's all America's fault according to Castro. I guess Israel is to far away to blame.

President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) defended on Friday the firing squad executions of three ferry hijackers as a deterrent to a mass exodus that he said the United States was seeking to provoke in communist-run Cuba.

The executions, which followed the arrests of 75 dissidents in the worst political repression in Cuba in decades, prompted an outpouring of criticism worldwide and lost Castro some close friends among left-wing intellectuals, such as Portuguese Nobel prize winning writer Jose Saramago and Uruguayan journalist and author Eduardo Galeano.

Notice Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, and Oliver Stone didn't criticize.

But Castro blamed his longtime ideological enemy the United States for the hijackings, saying U.S authorities were tolerant of Cuban hijackers, granting bail to the six who forced a DC-3 airliner to fly 90 miles to Florida at knife-point.

It's always America's fault.