Venezuela Expels Israeli Ambassador over Gaza (english)

[magbana]

Fwd: Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador over GazaWish everyone else in the world would follow their example.....
Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza

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By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - 44 minutes ago

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - 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.

"How far will this barbarism go?," he said in an appearance on state television. "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."

The foreign minister said its U.N. mission is joining with other countries in demanding the Security Council "apply urgent and necessary measures to stop this invasion."

Officials could not immediately be reached at the Israeli Embassy in Caracas, which had closed by the time of the announcement.

Chavez has long been critical of the Israeli government's policies in the Middle East and has supported the Palestinians' stance in the conflict.

[Judi Lynn]

1. He should never regret making this moral decision. Courage is hard. It isolates.

It will be far easier living with his conscience, than it will with the others', although acts of consicience also bring the savage retaliation that makes it dangerous in Latin America to be a leader who workes to improve the lives of the poor, and helpless, or a liberation theologist clergyman/woman, a union worker, a human rights worker.

[Bacchus39]

2. I am sure Israel is terrified now

was this a the behest of his buddy Ahmajenidad, who wants Israel to be exterminated, I wonder.

[amyrose2712]

3. Here! Here! But, for it to affect a conscience...

You would have to have a conscience first(i am speaking...of the "others", not Chavez of course, just to clarify.)