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 genocidal state of Israel will be put in its place, in the proper place and hopefully a real democratic state will be born,"
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?
Is it that kind of democracy he is speaking about?
Or is it the democracy in a state like Assad's Syria where Assad is President for life and no opposition is allowed?
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.
Assad even 'jokingly' suggested that Syria and Venezuela could form an 'axis of evil'.
Ho, ho, my sides a splitting. At least Assad displays a little more self-knowledge than Chavez.
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.
Chavez believes that Syria and the Palestinians could create a state that is more democratic than Israel. Delusion, thy name is (Far left) Socialism.
Chavez calls Israel genocidal whilst proposing its destruction. Remember Chavez's other chum, Ahmadinejad?
Let's all blow a very long vuvuzela at Venezuela!
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