(AP-Washington Post) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a leading U.S. congressional supporter of Israel, to clarify his recent praise of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Netanyahu said his comments were limited only to Castro's remarks criticizing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and for saying Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state.
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