Posted on 09/09/2010 10:24:07 AM PDT by kronos77
Jeff is observing Rosh Hashanah today, but he wanted us to share this news with Goldblog readers. -- Bob Cohn, editorial director Atlantic Digital During a visit to the International Tourism Fair in Caracas yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced he would meet with leaders of Venezuela's Jewish community. "We respect and love the Jewish people," said Chavez, who added that opponents have falsely painted him as "anti-Jewish." Chavez has been a close ally of Iran and a strong critic of Israel. He severed ties with Israel in January 2009 to protest its actions in the Gaza Strip. A series of recent incidents have ignited concerns about anti-Semitic violence in Venezuela. The Chavez remarks came one day after Jeff wrote on this blog about his recent reporting trip to Havana and his conversations with Fidel Castro. Castro excoriated anti-Semitism and criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust. The former Cuban president called upon Ahmadinejad to "stop slandering the Jews." (Castro also expressed misgivings about his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but that's another story.) Jeff reports that, according to people he has been in touch with overnight, Chavez's new rhetoric and willingness to meet with Jewish leaders is "a direct result of Fidel's statement."
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And just 3 days after Putin signed arms cooperation deal with Israel and day after Castro attacked Ahmadinejad ... interesting......
Smells as if a ruse is being run, and Putin, Castro, and Chavez are seeking cover?
I suspect WTF is the hand of G-d touching Chavez who’s now beginning to panic
Or they’re trying to make Zero look bad.
Putin is like a Rhinestone Cowboy....gettin’ cards & letters from people he don’t even know????
Something is going on in dark places. What does Putin know and when did he know it?
Smells as if a ruse is being run, and Putin, Castro, and Chavez are seeking cover?
yes, very interesting....looks like perhaps our friends in Jerusalem are making a play to show they don’t need Obama
They are making new friends.
Castro and Chavez are nothing more than cold-blooded opportunists- they follow their ally Russia.
What Russia does they will follow.
And trouble is- what will cone out if a new Russia-China-India-Israel alliance is made?... or not even IF but WHEN ?
He’s been talking with Fidel
so...........what are they up to
why
Castro and Chavez now *love our Jewish friends* and Putin has made an arms deal with Israel.
Oil was just discovered off Israel’s coast.
http://www.zionoil.com/tags/oil-discovered-in-israel
Russia, Cuba and Venezuela don’t need Saudi oil, they see Obama as an impotent muslim and they don’t trust Armadinajhad to keep his nukes in the bunker.
I’m not the SOS so that’s my answer.
Soon we will see Israel influence in Latin America- maybe technology deals, education, military deals even?
It is possible
Cuba’s Fidel Castro Gives Up on Communism
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=365755&CategoryId=10718
“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” Castro tells an American journalist when asked whether the Cuban economic and political system was worth exporting
What a strange century this is turning out to be.
All the old Marxist states are trending to capitalism, the old Socialist nanny states of Europe are in revolt and the US has an administration putting its economy on a train to Siberia.
*snort*
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