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Israel Dredges Up Stale Anti-Semitism Slanders Against Venezuela
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
[It's the old re-run, this time Chavez deals with Iran, last time it
was Ortega dealt with the USSR. And at's all a bone that Israel tosses
to its patrons/puppets in the USA of course. Israel itself has extensive
very sotto voce dealings with Israel, and has since the Islamic
Revolution. But the Yanquis are too unsophisticated to even get this.
It's more anti-Left bull**** to placate the suckers in Wa****ngton who
pay them billions. --NY Transfer]
Ha'aretz - Oct 1, 2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/908197.html
Israel mulls downgrading ties with Venezuela due to Iran alliance
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Israel is considering downgrading its relations with Venezuela in light
of the extremist anti-Israel line taken by the country's government
under President Hugo Chavez. Israel is concerned about the growing
alliance between Chavez and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. A highly-placed source in Jerusalem says only preliminary
talks have been held on the issue and no decision has been made.
Israel's ambassador to Venezuela, Shlomo Cohen, is due to leave his
post next June. The Foreign Ministry has no plans to name a replacement
at this point, preferring to send an acting ambassador instead. The
possibility of naming a tem****ary head of mission in Caracas was raised
at a recent Foreign Ministry meeting. Such a move would amount to a
downgrading of Jerusalem's relations with Caracas.
Relations between Israel and Venezuela have deteriorated significantly
since Chavez came to power. Chavez, the leader of Latin America's
anti-American camp, has cozied up to Ahmadinejad, whom he sees as a
ideological ally. The Iranian president went to Caracas on an official
visit a few days ago - his third in two years.
The warm relation****p between Caracas and Tehran is expressed in
several areas of bilateral cooperation. Two weeks ago the entire staff
of Iran's embassy in Caracas was invited to be guests of honor on
Chavez's own television program, during which the Venezuelan president
greeted them during the live taping.
Israeli sources who are following the Venezuela-Iran relation****p
closely note that Chavez recently instituted several reforms inspired
by the Iranian Republic's Islamic Revolution. He plans to establish
militias modeled on the Revolutionary Guards, as a counterweight to the
regular army.
During the Second Lebanon War, Chavez criticized Israel harshly,
comparing Israel's attacks against Palestinians and Lebanon with the
"methods of Hitler" and saying that the Israelis are doing what Hitler
did, killing innocent children and entire families.
In the wake of these statements, Venezuela's ambassador to Israel was
summoned and reprimanded. In response, Venezuela downgraded its
diplomatic relations with Israel and recalled its ambassador to
Caracas. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni recalled the Israeli ambassador
to Jerusalem, but he returned to Caracas soon after.
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