Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the Israeli ambassador to leave the country in a move meant to show solidarity with the besieged Gazans,
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the government “has decided to expel the Israeli ambassador and part of the personnel of the Israeli embassy” to protest Israel’s hostilities against the Palestinians in Gaza, AP reported.
Chavez had earlier condemned the attacks on Gaza and called on Venezuelan Jews to take a stand against the ‘murderers’ in Tel Aviv.
“Now I hope that the Venezuelan Jewish community speaks out against this barbarism. Do it. Don’t you strongly reject all acts of persecution?” he stated.
In a televised speech on Tuesday, Chavez said “How far will this barbarism go?”
“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,” he added.
Chavez also urged the people of Israel to ‘stand up’ against Tel Aviv’s ‘new holocaust’.
He derided the Israeli military, saying, “They are cowards… bombing innocent people. What great soldiers they are, how brave the soldiers of Israel are.”
Mauritania, Jordan, and Egypt have also summoned their ambassadors to Israel to express discontent with the ongoing Israeli strike on Gaza.
Medics say at least 660 Palestinians, including 215 children and 98 women, have been killed so far in the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
Saker,
I am very interested to listen to a transcript of Nasrallah speech. If you are unable at least let me know any alternative please.
@anonymous: I also am very interested in Nasrallah’s speeches and if I had one I would immediately publish it. I get my translations from friends in Lebanon who do their best to translate as fast as they can. I am fairly confident that I will get this speech in the next couple of days, but if I don’t there is nothing I can do about that.
Please let me know if you come across any other source, ok? Thanks! VS
Hugo Chavez… a million times more of a man than all Arab leaders and oil monkeys combined!
Saker,
you do realize Chavez is doing nothing but support terrorists of the ugliest kind.
Iran? Don’t get me started. You too shall be dead if they get their way. Aand Nasralla prides himself in aiming at civilians, yikes.
Wwhen Cavez does something good for humanity for a change, let us know then.
Why don’t the palestinians ban their terrorists??? Honetly, it beats me. Those Hamas people use children as human shields, it is insane. And when Israel warns the Palenstinians before they bomb a building, Hamas force civilians to stay in. CRAZY! I would never vote for them to be my leaders, not ever. They are responsible for so many deaths of their own people, it’s too painful to imagine. They make the dream of a Palestinian state drift away. Inhumane.
@anonymous: may I suggest that you are wasting your time posting here? If you take a look at the threads and the type of people participating in the discussions here you will soon realize that almost all of them understand the situation in the Middle-East very well so you are achieving only one thing with your posts: making you look like an idiot. Of course, being “anonymous” sort of protects you from being directly laughed at, but look at it from another point of view: some anonymous dude posts idiotic slogans. Would you pay attention to his point of view?
Exactly.
I hope that you understand what I wrote.
Cheers,
The Saker
Now I’ve just read that the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has followed Chavez’s example and also expelled the Israeli ambassador and severed diplomatic ties. It is a shame that the most important countries in Latin America, like Brazil, Argentina or Mexico, don’t do the same, and instead just make “neutral” calls for the end of violence.