Hugo must be upset about all of the Venezuelan territory the evil capitalist Jews are occupying.
Mr. Chavez’s vitriol about Jews is well documented and of long standing. In recent years he has referred to Venezuelan Jews as “descendants of the same ones who crucified Christ” and “a minority [that] has taken ownership of all the gold of the planet.” According to Shmuel Herzfeld, a Washington, D.C., rabbi who visited Venezuela in March: “Chavez is isolating the Jews and turning Venezuelans against the Jewish community.
Then there is this from the bottom of the page:
Meanwhile, Rabbi Bremer, the chief rabbi of Venezuela, asks that the world pay attention to the plight of Jews in his country. “We don’t know what the future holds for us,” he says. But he believes Mr. Chavez pays attention to world opinion. “I hope we will hear from the world community if there is future deterioration.”
Rabbi Herzfeld is blunter: “I think we’re in the early stages of something catastrophic.”
Chavez is probably half Jewish. Just a hunch.
Chavez’s first quote is a PERFECT example of how it’s only possible to stoke anti semitism through emotion and not logic.
This baffles me to no end because the THINKING Christian realizes that the ENTIRE premise of the divinity of Jesus is hinged on the resurrection. Now all you logical thinkers out there know that a resurrection from the dead requires an event that leads to the death of an individual as a pre-requisite. In this particular case, that meant crucification. Whether it was ancient Jerusalem’s Jews or Romans who ordered the execution, either way the parties involved should be THANKED instead of blamed. While some folks may find this logic faulty, it isn’t. THINK about it.
Do I even need to mention the idiocy of the gold quote?