Caracas, Venezuela – Venezuela Expels Israeli Ambassador over Gaza

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    Caracas, Venezuela – Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to protest Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

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    President Hugo Chavez has condemned the campaign in Gaza, where nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed in ground and air strikes. Israel launched the attacks Dec. 27 to stop Palestinian militants from firing rockets into southern Israel.

    Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced the decision in a statement, saying it “has decided to expel the Israeli ambassador and part of the personnel of the Israeli embassy.”

    Chavez earlier condemned the Israelis carrying out the military campaign as “murderers” and urged Jews in Venezuela to take a stand against the Israeli government.

    “Now I hope that the Venezuelan Jewish community speaks out against this barbarism. Do it. Don’t you strongly reject all acts of persecution?” Chavez said.
    “How far will this barbarism go?,” he said in an appearance on state television. “The president of Israel should be taken before an international court together with the president of the United States, if the world had any conscience.”

    The foreign minister said its U.N. mission is joining with other countries in demanding the Security Council “apply urgent and necessary measures to stop this invasion.”

    Officials could not immediately be reached at the Israeli Embassy in Caracas, which had closed by the time of the announcement.

    Chavez has long been critical of the Israeli government’s policies in the Middle East and has supported the Palestinians’ stance in the conflict.


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    cp
    cp
    15 years ago

    Big deal. Everyone (except Carter, maybe) knows Chavez y”sh is a lunatic.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    We still have an embassy in that rat hole?

    robroy560
    robroy560
    15 years ago

    I heard they are also suspending their support to the oil subsidiy that Joe Kennedy II promoted with the communist thug. That is the fuel Citgo kicked in. There are still Jews in Venezuela… let’s help them get out.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Any Jew is better off not being in Caracas.

    yiddele
    yiddele
    15 years ago

    ימ”ש

    Pur Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
    Pur Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
    15 years ago

    Dear Mr. President Hugo Chavez

    If you love the Terrorists so much, why don’t you go to Gaza, yourself, personally, to help them?

    This way we can take care of the Terrorists and their Protectors (you), at the same time.

    Shmuel
    Shmuel
    15 years ago

    This coming from a lame duck

    murray
    murray
    15 years ago

    So what took him this long? He is a piece of crap that always is on the terrorists side, like I said the only surprise here is that it took him this long.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    let him go to hell along with all “soinei yisrueilim”

    logic613
    logic613
    15 years ago

    Let’s expel the Venezualan embassador.

    what a garbage
    what a garbage
    15 years ago

    I hope he won’t take advantage of our brother’s. He sounds like another nitra karter or jimmy the farmer. (carter)

    srg says
    srg says
    15 years ago

    lots of jews still live there. also chabad

    choolentkeegel
    choolentkeegel
    15 years ago

    nazis come in all shapes and forms

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    vayiftach es pi h’oson

    vihiyisem niki'em
    vihiyisem niki'em
    15 years ago

    we got to tell the emes to the world by posting blogs and comments on the goyishe news sights , that hamas ym”s deliberatly uses civilians as human shields, the more of them that die bs”d, the happier they are so they can use it against us. the world has to know that israel tries harder then anyone else to avoid civilian casualties .

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    A good way to know what oil is doing when cahves opens his mouth that indicates oil is up. he has been silent for a while

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    This piece of garbage has the gall to stand up there and condemn Isreal for (finally) standing up to the constant terrrorism??? and we sit here and let this idiot continue rambling? we need to protest him, as well as hamas. He is an enabler of the worst kind.

    US Diplomacy Needed
    US Diplomacy Needed
    15 years ago

    Now I know why the US assassinated all those South American Communist Dictators in the 1960s. We or our friends should have knocked this crazy animal off years ago. Why do insane people always become leaders of their people? Mamash, this guy is insane.