A known hater of the Jewish people, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez kept up his vitriolic rhetoric against Israel by committing somewhat of a Godwin's Law violation:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday charged that Israel aims to "terminate the Palestinian people" and said he backs the establishment of Jerusalem as capital of an independent Palestinian state.
"We .. are on the side of the Palestinian people's memorable struggle ... against the genocidal state of Israel that knocks down, kills and aims to terminate the Palestinian people," Chavez told visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel "aims to terminate the Palestinian people?" Really? How does Chavez think one terminates a people? He knows more about terminating democracy and a free press than people, and it shows:
Chavez gave no details to support his charge that the Israel sought to eliminate the Palestinian population.
Chavez's 'comments' come on the heels of his receiving of best-friend-forever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his brother in Jew-hating:
During Wednesday's visit by Iran's Ahmadinejad, Chavez denounced Israel as a murderous arm of the Yankee empire.
George Steinbrenner would be proud.
Chavez also praised convicted terrorist Carlos the Jackal for his work on behalf of the Palestinian people:
Chavez lauded Carlos - whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - last week as a revolutionary fighter who aided the cause of the Palestinians.
Ramirez is serving a life sentence in a French prison for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informant. He also has been linked to the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jet en route to Uganda, as well as bombings in France.
It's disturbing that some people on Daily Kos still support Chavez.