{"id":395557,"date":"2019-02-08T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gaza-rallies-for-caracas-on-the-wests-dangerous-game-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:37:10","slug":"gaza-rallies-for-caracas-on-the-wests-dangerous-game-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gaza-rallies-for-caracas-on-the-wests-dangerous-game-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Rallies for Caracas: On the West\u2019s Dangerous Game in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hundreds of Palestinians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/gazans-rally-in-support-of-venezuela-after-attempted-coup\/\">took to the streets<\/a> of besieged Gaza to show their support of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and its legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela is struggling to defeat a coup attempt that is supported by the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/israel-mideasts-self-proclaimed-democracy-backs-coup-venezuelas-democratically-elected-government\/254341\/\">Israel <\/a>and many Western governments.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Venezuela and Palestine has been particularly strong under the presidencies of late Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez and current president Maduro. Neither leader has missed an opportunity to show their solidarity towards the Palestinian people, a fact that has always irked Tel Aviv and its western benefactors.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza rallies, however, were more than a display of gratitude towards a country that had enough courage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161103-the-palestinian-cause-is-our-cause-say-venezuelan-labour-leader\/\">break off ties<\/a> with Israel following the latter\u2019s 2008-9 war on Gaza \u2013 a bloody campaign known as \u201cOperation Cast Lead\u201d. Thousands of Palestinians were killed in that one-sided war. No Arab government that has diplomatic ties with Israel severed its relations with Tel Aviv. While Caracas \u2013 over 10 thousand kilometers away \u2013 did. Then, former President Chavez, accused Israel of \u201cstate terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more to Palestinian solidarity with Venezuela than this recent history. Palestinians have experienced decades-long collective trauma from US-funded Israeli colonialism and military occupation. The US has imposed itself as an \u2018honest peace broker\u2019 as a way to mask its political interference&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/gaza-rallies-for-caracas-on-the-wests-dangerous-game-in-venezuela\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of besieged Gaza to show their support of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and its legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela is struggling to defeat a coup attempt that is supported by the United States, Israel and many Western governments. The relationship between Venezuela and Palestine has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}