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Ayesha


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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel has expelled Venezuela's ambassador in response to Venezuela's expulsion of an Israeli envoy and the rupture of diplomatic relations earlier this month.

A pro-Palestinian mural in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

- A pro-Palestinian mural in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

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Venezuelan head of mission Roland Betancourt and two other diplomats were given until Friday to leave.

"Due to the decision of Venezuela to cut relations with us a few weeks ago, we told the Venezuelan charge d'affaires that he and his staff should leave Israel," Foreign Ministry official Lior Hayat said. "We told them they are declared persona non grata in Israel."

Venezuela expelled Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Cohen and staff on January 6 and broke off diplomatic relations on January 14 in protest of Israel's attack on Gaza. Bolivia also broke off relations with Israel that day.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro defended his country's actions, saying Israel violated basic human rights with its military action.

"Our decisions were just, correct, aligned with and adjusted with the spirit of our constitution, which mandates that we seek international peace," Maduro said in a statement on the foreign ministry's Web site.

Maduro said Venezuela's actions are compatible with its support for the creation of a Palestinian state.

He has not spoken, he said, with any Israeli officials over this week's expulsion of the Venezuelan diplomats.

"The response of the state of Israel is weak, late, and in any case for us it's an honor," Maduro told the Qatar-based television network Al-Jazeera. "We're proud that the state of Israel that exists today, led by these criminals, made this decision."

Israel and Venezuela have had diplomatic tensions before. Israel recalled its ambassador to Venezuela in August 2006 "in protest against the one-sided policy of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, in light of his outrageous defamatory remarks against the state of Israel, and in reaction to the recalling of the Venezuela ambassador to Israel," the foreign ministry said at the time.

A January 21 cease-fire put an end to fighting between Hamas militants in Gaza and Israel, which had launched a three-week offensive, saying its goal was to stop missile strikes into southern Israel.

More than 1,200 Palestinians, many of them civilians, were killed. Israel lost about 10 soldiers and three civilians

-- http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/28/israel.venezuela/index.html


Do you think that disagreeing with a country's foreign relations is a good enough reason to expel an ambassador of that country and break all ties with them (like Venezuela did to the Israeli ambassador)? Do you think Israel was right to react the way they did and do the same thing back?


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I think its useless honestly. Venezuela expelled our ambassador to be in solidarity with Bolivia who expelled our ambassador all because Bolivia accused our DEA agents of trying to overthrow the government.  We expelled their ambassadors in response. Venezuela does everything it can to piss off the United States and to appease all their friend countries which are their oil buddies that are Arab oil exporting nations. It's kind of ridiculous to expel an ambassador for their reasons but Israel was right to react the same way back. Hugo Chavez is a leftist socialist wanna-be dictator begging for attention.

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Venezuela's Dictator just wants to be taken serious and is doing what ever he can to get in the papers. Realistically what does it matter that he is anti-israel anyways he is on the other side of the country and we already knew he was anti-US. This is more of a statement that they oppose U.S. in every way even it's allies then a gesture towards the Israelis. 

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I don't think they should have done that back to them but when it comes between to countries it is nothing more they can do and that is to protect their country like the United States would do if some country were to attack are country so I think Israel did the right thing to try to protect their people.

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