Comments on: Mugabe’s Friend Declares Solidarity With Gaza http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/mugabes-friend-declares-solidarity-with-gaza/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: bob http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/mugabes-friend-declares-solidarity-with-gaza/#comment-3187 bob Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:56:35 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=857#comment-3187 I frequently walk past the Zimbabwe embassy in London - a grand Edwardian building in high British imperial style - and am moved to see the dignity of the protesters (mostly black Zimbabwean exiles) who regularly gather there, sometimes singing, sometimes standing in quiet mourning, ignored by the mainstream media. Such a stark contrast to those outside the Israeli embassy... I frequently walk past the Zimbabwe embassy in London - a grand Edwardian building in high British imperial style - and am moved to see the dignity of the protesters (mostly black Zimbabwean exiles) who regularly gather there, sometimes singing, sometimes standing in quiet mourning, ignored by the mainstream media. Such a stark contrast to those outside the Israeli embassy…

]]> By: Empress Trudy http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/mugabes-friend-declares-solidarity-with-gaza/#comment-3157 Empress Trudy Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:51:20 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=857#comment-3157 The great open dirty secret of Mugabe is that the people who are keeping him in power is actually the ANC in South Africa. And since they 'own' the word apartheid and are seen as the go-to people whenever you need to excoriate someone for something, there's no one who will speak up and inquire just why they feel they need to help keep Mugabe in power. Apart of course from the ideological similarities of old line Communism and close ties to the KGB/FSS. In reality ZA needs Mugabe because they don't want to inherit his problems and they don't want more people fleeing the country into ZA. But back to il Chavez. When oil was $150/bbl Chavez bought a fleet of MiG-29 fighters and generally provoked an arms race in South America. In the decade past - the peasants are no better off, unemployment and inflation are 30% and he has to hire gangs to terrorize political opponents, such as they are with an El Presidente for Life. Chavez hates Israel for the same reason the Arab states do. In a pragmatic way it deflects their angry poor uneducated people from rising up at their lot in life and lopping off their leaders heads. Which is why the few Jews who live in Venezuela should seriously consider leaving. Anywhere. Uruguay, Argentina, Israel, Canada...anywhere. The great open dirty secret of Mugabe is that the people who are keeping him in power is actually the ANC in South Africa. And since they ‘own’ the word apartheid and are seen as the go-to people whenever you need to excoriate someone for something, there’s no one who will speak up and inquire just why they feel they need to help keep Mugabe in power. Apart of course from the ideological similarities of old line Communism and close ties to the KGB/FSS. In reality ZA needs Mugabe because they don’t want to inherit his problems and they don’t want more people fleeing the country into ZA.

But back to il Chavez. When oil was $150/bbl Chavez bought a fleet of MiG-29 fighters and generally provoked an arms race in South America. In the decade past - the peasants are no better off, unemployment and inflation are 30% and he has to hire gangs to terrorize political opponents, such as they are with an El Presidente for Life.

Chavez hates Israel for the same reason the Arab states do. In a pragmatic way it deflects their angry poor uneducated people from rising up at their lot in life and lopping off their leaders heads.

Which is why the few Jews who live in Venezuela should seriously consider leaving. Anywhere. Uruguay, Argentina, Israel, Canada…anywhere.

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