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.
Big deal. Everyone (except Carter, maybe) knows Chavez y”sh is a lunatic.
We still have an embassy in that rat hole?
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.
Any Jew is better off not being in Caracas.
ימ”ש
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.
This coming from a lame duck
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.
let him go to hell along with all “soinei yisrueilim”
Let’s expel the Venezualan embassador.
I hope he won’t take advantage of our brother’s. He sounds like another nitra karter or jimmy the farmer. (carter)
lots of jews still live there. also chabad
nazis come in all shapes and forms
vayiftach es pi h’oson
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 .
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
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.
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.