Here’s a fascinating story that’s been circulating around the Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish-speaking world — a fascination many of us have not been able to share in because it wasn’t written in American (which means it didn’t happen) and why don’t these people learn the language already.
Apparently… you ready? Okay: Ariel Sharon and Che Guevara were cousins.
And not the it’s-okay-to-marry-because-we’re-second-cousins cousins. They were first cousins, which Che’s mother revealed to him right before she died. It turns out she was Ariel Sharon’s dad’s sister which meant she was actually Jewish — not Catholic — which meant that Ernesto “Che” Guevara was — that’s right — a Jew.
Oh, the secrets we keep.
After Che found this out, he secretly met with Sharon in Jerusalem — and even briefly studied at a Jewish fundamentalist madrassa completely ruining his chances of ever becoming president in the 2008 elections, according to a Faux News report. The story concludes with a descriptive account of their secret meeting, where, as Che was saying goodbye to his long lost cousin, Ariel Sharon embraced him.
And then Ariel Sharon ate him.
Quite the delicious, probably completely fabricated story.
Che Guevara, cousin of Ariel Sharon?
A leading Israeli newspaper says so. But an historian refutes this.
Aug 04, 2007TEL AVIV & ROME. ANSA
An Israeli investigator denied today that Argentinean revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara and former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon (currently in an 18-month long coma) were cousins and secretly met together.
Investigator, Efraim Davidi, author of a biography on Che, told Italian news agency ANSA today that the story is groundless. The surprising text was published yesterday in Maariv [a popular daily Hebrew language tabloid newspaper in Israel] as a front page story.
It said that the mother of the Argentinean guerrilla, one of the principal collaborators with Fidel Castro in the taking of Cuba, Celia de la Serna, was “in reality a Russian Jew who escaped the pogroms. Her last name was Schinerman and was the younger sister of Shmuel Schinerman, the father of Sharon who immigrated to Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century to work as a farmer. Maariv gathered that in 1965 Celia, on her deathbed, confided in her son his lineage to the general Sharon.
Guevara then entered Israel using a false identity, the story says, and met with Sharon and even attended religious courses in Jerusalem.
The conclusion of the story implies, and what the investigation intended to validate is, that Guevara, as “son of a Jewish woman,” should be considered Jewish.
But Davidi said the Maariv premise is groundless.
His mother did not have Russian roots but Spanish, catholic ones. In the 1960s, the investigator says, Guevara visited on two occasions (with Egyptian President Gama Abdel Nasser’s consent) Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza, stirring up enormous enthusiasm, but never entered Israel.
Neither was he a part of, according to the historian, the official Cuban delegations that visited the Jewish state in the years that followed.
The Israeli investigator considered it possible that the story was circulated by a Russian nationalist environment, determined to demonstrate links within “international Judaism” and revolutionary movements.
Original story in Spanish here: http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/08/04/elmundo/i-04001.htm
KABOBtranslation: Aug 21, 2007
[Tarboush tip: Nadeem]
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What possible difference would it make whether the story was true, or not? Would Che be more of a dirtbag, or less of a dirtbag, if he was Jewish? And, anyway, he’s still dead.
Posted by programmer craig | August 20, 2007, 11:11 pmYes, and George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden are actually gay lovers.
The only thing that Che and sharon have in common is that they were both born in 1928.
As for che having jewish roots thats like saying Jesus spoke English. there is no historic evidence what so ever to back that claim.
Posted by bakkouz | August 20, 2007, 11:25 pmCraig, you are useless.
Consider reducing your ecological footprint…forever.
Posted by Michael Lantos | August 21, 2007, 12:15 amConsider reducing your ecological footprint…forever.
Yeah, then I’d be just like Che! Dead!
Posted by programmer craig | August 21, 2007, 1:23 amIt’s too bad Yassir Arafat never got shot down like a rabid dog the way Che did. Nobody had the courage of conviction that Che Guevara had! Osama bin Ladin, dead yet? Noooo…. hiding in a cave in Pakistan having sex with little boys. And how’s about that Hassan Nasrallah? He’s probably getting a facial and a manicure, preparing for his next television appearance, right? They don’t make revolutionaries teh way they used to!
Posted by programmer craig | August 21, 2007, 1:26 amIf an Israeli paper said it, it must be true. It’s not like they re-write history all the time.
Posted by Fayyad | August 21, 2007, 7:38 amProgrammed Crackhead, I ask you again:
Is the use of violence which will probably lead to the death of innocent civilians ever justified? If so, when?
Also, it is a fact that the IDF has engaged used violence which has resulted in the death of innocent civilians, is this considered “militant” or “insane” or “terrorism”? If not, why?
Posted by Pali-American | August 21, 2007, 9:15 amSo, if revolutionaries no longer have courage, I guess the same can be said for oppressive hegemons who carry out their mass killings from hundreds of miles away, or plush jets or military bases by merely pressing a button. Last I saw, Nasrullah’s metrosexual ass was giving Israel the business Craig, don’t you think? Plus, nothing’s wrong with a revolutionary who wants to look good playboy, pimpin’ doesn’t know any political bounds. Plus, I heard that Nasrullah was all up in your girl’s guts dude, smackin’ that ass…
Posted by Khaled B | August 23, 2007, 2:05 pmSTOP SAYING LIES,NOBODY ON WORLD BELIEVES YOU….YOU ARE NOT JEWS, YOU ARE LIERS SIONIST….AND YOU SHIMON PERES,CRIMINAL AND GENOCIDAL PRIME MINISTER OF THE LAND STOLEN TO PALESTINA..GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY RIGHT NOW…..PIG!
Posted by BENGURION PONEBOMBAS | November 17, 2009, 7:19 pmThis is just idiotic! He was so not a jew, I know this for a fact! I have no idea why this stupid rumor started.
Posted by Celia | December 17, 2009, 6:20 pm