Chavez and Venezuela take sides in the Middle East

July 16, 2006


I don’t
like to write about international affairs, but the Chavez Government has somehow
gotten involved in the Middle East dispute unnecessarily
taking sides and using the term “Zionist” in a pejorative way which simply
shows the
ignorance of the members of the National Assembly as to what the terms
means.

Since I
suspect that Iran
is behind
this whole conflict, I guess I should not be surprised, somehow Chavez
finds some affinity with the Iranians, but I bet he had never met one before he
became President. He probably now believes that they are his blood brothers. But
they are not; they are religious zealots taking advantage of Chavez’s political
position. Very sad for Venezuela
to take sides and find the Israeli Government questioning not only the Assembly’s
statements, but Chavez’ own
words when he blamed the US
for being behind Israel.
Well, I am no expert on Middle East affairs, but I can assure you that Israel does not need the US telling it
what it should do.

As of the
conflict itself, I think that any civilized country rather than taking sides
would actually do the opposite, not take sides, and use its influence, if any,
to try to help achieve some peace, a cease fire, a break that would allow the
two sides to back down. That is what being civilized is about and Venezuela has a
long history of neutrality in these conflicts that should be respected..

And I do
feel bad for the Venezuelans who are of Jewish origin, who live here and love
this country but they now find their own Government taking sides in a battle
that is not their own and where no side should be taken. Moreover, it is a
Government they have always been very suspicious about in terns of their relations
with their own community. Venezuela
has large group of citizens of Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian and Jewish origin.
But somehow the Chavez administration takes sides largely with the Iranians,
probably the only group with no significant population in this country. But
even if they did, Chavez should show some respect for those who live here, take
no sides and ask for peace. But he is a man of war.

He would be
right at home in the Middle East

This entry was posted on July 16, 2006 at 8:25 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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