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Venezuela :: Israel Leaders are Criminals

by 158 | January 28, 2009 at 10:57 am

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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro told the Qatar-based television network Al-Jazeera. "We're proud that the state of Israel that exists today, led by these criminals, made this decision."

Maduro said, complaining that every time a country criticizes Israel's government, it is automatically added to the list of anti-Semites.

Hundreds of demonstrators supported President Hugo Chavez's decision to expel Israeli ambassador Shlomo, spraying graffiti and hurling shoes at Israel's embassy in Venezuela. Some people also spray-painted swastikas on the walls of a Caracas synagogue.

"Where we live, the anti-Semitism is sanctioned," Levy told the world Jewish Congress in Jerusalem on Monday. "It comes from the president, through the government, and into the media."

If they decided to try

to find a solution to

this instead of name

calling it would be

more helpful.

"Venezuela ... has definitively decided to break diplomatic ties with the state of Israel given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people carried out by the authorities of Israel," said a statement read over state television.

Yet they still have relations with Hamas.

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tikun

at 11:02 on January 28th, 2009

No more need be said.

158

at 12:29 on January 28th, 2009

Agreed. That says it all.

liorbsh0

at 14:35 on January 28th, 2009

i don't agree with any one that would say that the israeli leaders are criminals.

put your self in that situation, of someone wanting to kill you and throw rockets on you! would you seat down and do nothing?!

it's not the sitisen that we are after, it's hamas! only hamas! the school that was bombed was trapped by hamas! they use children as "live protectors"!

they did not say the truth about the numbers of people that diad or got ingerd, after the war ended the Palestinians said that the hospitals are all most empty! and that the numbers are much lower then what they have said.

also, israel is bringing orphanage children's (because of the war) into israel and they will be checked up by doctors and psycayetrist's so that they can be triet write & they also bring in sick children's to be taken care by good doctors.

the main problem is that hamas don't care about the sevilient, but only about how to get reed of israel, and until that would change, things wont get better (it is sad that they don't care and that most of the world doesn't understand this).

you probably diden't get to see the pic's where israeli solgers help the palestinians and how they got shot from inside the school!

hope that one day you would understand the problem that israel is standing in-front.

158

at 14:40 on January 28th, 2009

Thank you for a very good statement of Israel's position. We need to here both sides of this.

Thanks.

rahul

at 19:42 on January 28th, 2009

The Venezuelan government denied the encouragement or endorsement of actions against the Jewish community in Venezuela and any links with Islamic groups Hammas or Hezbollah. Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro said that the statements appeared in Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, where the Venezuelan government was accused of supporting anti-Semitic groups, are false. He added that the accusation was due to Venezuela criticism of the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza Strip, reported Reuters. "There is not and will never be any anti-Semitism. Our criticism has been and remains effective in the face of the crimes of political leaders of the State of Israel," Maduro told state-run TV channel VTV during an interview. The diplomat added that those who make such claims "purport to blackmail by arguing that anyone who criticizes Israel's leaders joins automatically and forthwith the list of anti-Jewish people."