Venezuela - World War III.2
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro confirmed on 03 March 2024 that Venezuelan citizens took to the streets to express their condemnation of the "aggression and genocide" committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. Maduro posted footage of the demonstrations that took place in the streets of Venezuela, saying: “The Venezuelan people have taken to the streets, the daughters and sons of this Bolivarian land, strongly rejecting the aggression and extermination of the Palestinian Arab people at the hands of the government of the State of Israel. Enough slaughter!”
He affirmed Latin America's clear position calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and stressed in his weekly program "More with Maduro" that "the concern of millions of people and dozens of governments about the situation in Gaza is legitimate." The Venezuelan president previously urged the peoples of the world to remain in the streets in support of Palestine, “because we must win this battle for the right to life and land, and the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
He pointed out that " Israel instilled an ideology more dangerous than Nazism , which initially targeted the Palestinian people, and then affected the Arab, Islamic and Christian communities." The Venezuelan president previously stressed that the State of Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people , likening the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip to the Nazi “Holocaust . ” He also expressed his support for the statements of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , in which he said that the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip is "genocide."
Maduro said: "Hitler is a monster created by Western elites. As President Lula da Silva said, the Israeli government is doing the same thing to the Palestinians that Hitler did to the Jews." The war in Gaza had entered its 148th day, as bombardment continued on several areas of the Strip amid a famine that has become a reality. Israeli military operations in the besieged Strip have left more than 30,000 dead and more than 70,000 wounded, most of them women and children, while international mediators race against time. For a ceasefire before the month of Ramadan.
Earl Bousquet wrote in TeleSUR that "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky do already have lots in common: both have outlived their elected parliamentary terms and each has sound reasons to fear jail terms; both wish their wars against Russia and Palestine will continue forever; and elections is the last thing on their minds. Israel and Ukraine are taking reckless and desperate actions to force their US, UK and NATO backers to deliver more weapons, lift safety clauses governing use of long-range weapons supplied – and to directly join their wars. In Israel’s case, Venezuela’s current resident opposition kingmaker, Corina Machado, is on record as a top supporter of Netanyahu. In 2018, she was reported as having sought Netanyahu’s help to overthrow Maduro — and promised to relocate Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Occupied Jerusalem.
"In 2019, she thanked Israel for recognizing Guaido – and in 2020 she signed a “cooperation agreement” with Netanyahu’s political party on “policies, ideological and social issues” and “strategic geopolitical and security matters.” Then, on November 5, 2021, in a Facebook post, Corina Machado expressed unbridled support for Netanyahu and Israel, saying: “Today, all who defend Western values must also support Israel, a genuine ally for freedom.” A Gonzales administration, with Corina calling the shots, will most-likely have moved to implements her promises earlier than later, especially in the current scenario of Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, when Netanyahu needs urgent international support.
"In contrast, President Maduro was one of the first Latin American leaders to condemn Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack – and despite hundreds of crippling economic and commercial US-led sanctions, Caracas dispatched tons of food, medical supplies, drinking water and pumps, oil, mattresses and other needs to Gaza. And after casting his vote on July 28, 2024, President Maduro’s first words in public were: ‘Long Live Palestine!’ Gonzales earlier this month publicly called – like Guaido – for the Venezuelan police and army to abandon Maduro, but the armed forces responded with an overwhelming public expression of confidence and loyalty in their President and Commander-in-Chief. The Venezuelan security forces, which arrested a group of paid political saboteurs ordered to disrupt electricity in eight states days ahead of the July 28 poll, have also rounded-up over-2,000 right-wing thugs behind scenes of chaos multiplied online by a clear demonstration of the equivalence of international press gangsterism, like never seen anywhere before."
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