Critics of Israel Hail Hugo Chavez

CNS News reports:

Critics of Israel have found a new champion in Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez, who in recent days has recalled his country's envoy from Israel and compared the Jewish state's military campaign in Lebanon to the actions of Nazi Germany.

After describing the Israeli operation against Hizballah as a "fascist outrage" during his recent visit to Iran, Chavez told the Arabic television network al-Jazeera in an interview broadcast on Friday that the attacks constituted "genocide."

"The Israeli offensive against the Palestinians and Lebanon is an aggression that we feel targets us also," he said. "It is an unjustified aggression that is being carried out in the style of Hitler, in a fascist fashion."

An arch-critic of the U.S., Chavez also slammed Washington for supporting Israel, saying America was behind Israel's "imperialist aggression."

Again on Sunday, Chavez used a weekly media broadcast to make fresh comments on the military offensive, calling it a "new Holocaust."

The remarks follow his decision Thursday to withdraw chief of mission Hector Quintero from Caracas' embassy in Tel Aviv, in protest.

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