{"id":1239,"date":"2010-06-28T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2011-05-18T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T12:22:08","slug":"chavez-confused-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/28\/chavez-confused-on-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez confused on democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two old friends met up in Caracas this week: Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and President Assad of Syria.<\/p>\n

The two of them enjoyed some light-hearted chummy banter as Chavez described the United States and Israel as enemies of his country<\/p>\n

“the Yankee empire, the genocidal state of Israel”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

reports <\/a>the Belfast Telegraph.<\/div>\n

“Someday the genocidal state of Israel will be put in its place, in the proper place and hopefully a real democratic state will be born,”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does he mean a democratic state from ‘the river to the sea’ replacing Israel and consisting of a Hamas\/Palestinian Authority Islamist government where Jews and women cannot vote and gays will be hanged?<\/p>\n

Is it that kind of democracy he is speaking about?<\/p>\n

Or is it the democracy in a state like Assad’s Syria where Assad is President for life and no opposition is allowed?<\/p>\n

Neither a Palestinian state replacing Israel or Syria would even approach Venezuela’s democracy. Unless Chavez has plans to become a South American Mugabe and roll back democracy.<\/p>\n

Assad even ‘jokingly’ suggested that Syria and Venezuela could form an ‘axis of evil’.<\/p>\n

Ho, ho, my sides are splitting. At least Assad displays a little more self-knowledge than Chavez.<\/p>\n

But this is so typical of the Far Left shmoozing the authoritarian\/Islamist Right, as long as it’s an anti-Israel, anti-USA authoritarian Right.<\/p>\n

Chavez believes that Syria and the Palestinians could create a state that is more democratic than Israel. Delusion, thy name is (Far left) Socialism.<\/p>\n

Chavez calls Israel genocidal whilst proposing its destruction. Remember Chavez’s other chum, Ahmadinejad?<\/p>\n

Let’s all blow a very long vuvuzela at Venezuela!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Two old friends met up in Caracas this week: Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and President Assad of Syria. The two of them enjoyed some light-hearted chummy banter as Chavez described the United States and Israel as enemies of his country “the Yankee empire, the genocidal state of Israel” reports the Belfast Telegraph. “Someday the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,19],"tags":[209,557,556,558,84,4,201],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-palestine","category-the-delegitimisation-of-israel","tag-ahmadinejad","tag-assad","tag-chavez","tag-democracy","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}