Re: [Marxism] QUESTION ON CHAVEZ

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:48 PM, nchamah miller <nchamah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone have Chavez's statement on the current crisis in Gaza?


From:

<http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=113>

The following statement on Israeli aggression against the people of
Palestine was issued by the Press Office of the Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez Frías on June 29. The translation is by Socialist Voice.
The original can be found at:

<http://www.minci.gov.ve/noticiasnuev.asp?numn=10463>

The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez
Frías, condemned in the name of the Venezuelan people the most recent
aggression that Israeli troops have waged against Palestine, as well
as the violation of the airspace of Syria.

He made his assertion this Thursday during an act celebrating the
promotion of officers and sub-officers of the Presidential Honor Guard
Regiment. He said that Israel must respect the Palestinian people, "a
people who have struggled for years for peace and independence. We
send our solidarity to Palestine's president and people."

The Israeli army took over the south of the Gaza Strip and in the
early morning dozens of tanks advanced from the north. The Israeli
attack included the arrest of ten ministers, 20 parliamentarians, and
members of the Palestine resistance.

"They have been using the entire military power accumulated by the
State of Israel with support from US imperialism to bomb, penetrate,
and invade Palestinian territory in defiance of UN resolutions and
world peace. Also, in defiance of the United Nations, they have
violated the airspace of the Arab Republic of Syria with overflights
of the residence of the Syrian president, using the excuse that Syria
protects terrorists. Nothing, absolutely nothing can justify to anyone
in this world the transgression of the sovereignty of states and of
the liberty of peoples," the Venezuelan president said.

"That's why and herein lies the importance of the battle we have been
waging, our battle that we know has taken on or has extended itself
into the world arena; our struggle is for peace, our struggle is for a
world in equilibrium, as Bolivar said."

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