http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477164,00.html Wadda ya gonna do???? CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador on Tuesday to protest Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip. 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.
It's absolutely chilling that he calls out Venezuela's Jews like this. Singling them out so publicly is the act of the worst kind of autocratic hatemonger. What a scumbag.
Seriously, it's like he wants to invite violence towards them. But then, it's Hugo Chavez... Hey Rostam, explain to me why it's a good thing to have such a total asswipe on your side?
Hugo advocates a certain sect of his own population to speak up in protest on every country's government on Earth save his. Santa Anna would be proud of you Hugo.
Well, did anybody not expect this? Especially, when we know that he's Ahmadinejad's only friend... I feel very sorry for Gustavo Dudamel & his great musicians all over the country, since they deserve a president with at least some brain.
Just in Latin America alone, Iran has been able to forge close ties to not only Venezuela, but with Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia and Nicaragua. The latter all during Ahmadinejad's tenure, albeit mostly because of changes in the political landscape in those countries. For more on the subject, although from a perspective opposite of mine, see the following LA Times article: Iran's Latin America Push. But I agree that Chavez is something special among all these other Latin American leaders.
Israeli community......not the Jewish community apparently we can't use the Z-word anymore ......it kind of makes it hard to make a distinction from the Jewish religion
Here comes the faux news crowd. First of all I'd say 95% percent of you who have posted don't know shyt about Hugo Chavez or the Bolivarian government in Venezuela aside from what you get from your incredibly biased news sources. Second of all I'd say he's a pretty unique "autocratic, hatemongering,scumbag " Since he's been democratically elected, not only that. But he has survived a coup, a coup! Backed by the U.S. and it's oligarchical allies in Venezuela. How many other president's have been brought back to power by the citizens of his/her country after a U.S. backed Coup. So don't go around thinking your savvy about what is happening in Latin America.
Lap Dog! Sure te a de doler que un indigena tenga la oprtunidad de ser el lider de Bolivia. Un pais que a pasado por explotacion tremenda por tanto tiempo. Pinche oligarca.
Asesino? No seas pendejo. Compruebalo. Aver sacate tus pruebas. Porque? Porque es izquierdista es un asesino. Te dejas llevar por esa maldita oligarcia que a mantenido a tu pais en explotacion y pobreza por cienes de años.
None of your post has anything to do with the fact that he made a public statement, as leader of his country, singling out the Jewish citizens of his country in this way. Considering that he has made disparaging remarks about Jews before, it's hard to think of this as an innocent slip of the tongue. One need not know anything about Latin America to recognize the signs of official anti-Semitism when one sees them.
Anti-Israeli aggression and anti-semitism are two very different things. Don't go 1984 on me and start blending two very different things. Hell i am rabid over what Israel is doing in Gaza. massacring women and children, bombing U.N. schools. But that does'nt make me anti-semitic.
You really need to keep straight who and what you're responding to. Did I say that there is something wrong with criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza--which, while I detest Hamas, seem to be disproportionate, IMHO--or that Chavez would be out of line to do so? No. Did I say that his decision to expel Israel's ambassador over this incident was anti-Semetic? No, I did not, even though I think it's a rash and foolish mood meant to appeal to baser instincts internationally. No--I said that his public statements singling out the Jewish citizens of his own country were the actions of an anti-Semite. For all of his MANY faults, George W. Bush never publicly called out the Muslim citizens of the USA after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, asking them to prove their loyalty to this country or placing the burden on them to prove that they disagreed with Al Qaeda and its tactics.
Bring it over to english so the rest of the people here can understand and then YouTube the massacre outside of Santa Cruz that Morales ordered on his own indiginous people. I have NO problem with an indiginous leader but I do with Morales. He's a lying sack of shit who has done NOTHING he said he would for his people. Has he built ONE clinic? One school? All he's done is align himself with Castro and Chavez, travel the world, kick out the DEA, allow the narco trafficers to prosper, divide our country and push us to the brink of civil war. When I see my people gunned down by his soldiers I could give two shits where he's from or how he got there. He needs to answer for his crimes. Too bad it probably means alot of Bolivian blood being spilled before that happens.
Your an idiot. The good thing is that all your little school of the americas crap is over. It's done. Latina America has taken a turn to the left, and it couldn't have come sooner. For too long the U.S. and it's interests wreaked havoc on Latin America. Not anymore.
I generally don't care to engage you and a few others but I will bring out a few points to make sure everyone sees the bigotry and absurdity in some of the pro-israel camp here: a) Considering that Jews are and have been, at least in their own view, the most proponents of "democracy", "human rights", and other moral qualities, why it's so difficult for them to get vocal about the crimes committed by Israel. b) For the Gentile to know of the Jewish quality, why is it so wrong to plead to the local Jewish communities to recognize the crimes against humanity committed by Israel on their name. c) Why is it that the above plead is a sign of anti-semitsm? and why is it cosidered by some that he is singling out the local jews?
The ones who brought Bolivia to the brink of civil war were those goddamn opposition governors and leaders. Who were undoubtedly pushing more than just their own agenda. The Santa Cruz incident altough regrettable was not carried out by Morales, like the massacre in el porvenir it was carried out by rogue most likely right-wing leaders. As for the dea are you f*****g kidding me? Do you have that much faith in the U.S. gov't. So for all you hes a murdere he needs to answer for his crimes bullshit. Morales has been a president who has finally broken throught the right-wing guerilla mold that has loomed over latin america for decades.