The world has taken another 180-degree turn with the attack by the terrorist group Hamas on the State of Israel on October 7, just as the Al Qaeda terrorists did when they destroyed the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001. From that date on, the world was no longer the same.
And although the implications for Latin America after the 2001 attack seemed distant, little by little the whole world became accustomed to airport security, U.S. interventions in terrorist safe haven countries and the ever-increasing financial restrictions of global banking institutions.
But the Hamas attack on Israel changed everything again, not only because this was not just another terrorist attack on Israeli territory, but the intensity and firepower demonstrated from air, land and sea (about 5. 000 rockets were fired on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip that someone financed), the unusual cruelty never seen before towards the civilian population with the murder of children, young people and the elderly, but above all the possible support of governments that have openly declared to be working for the disappearance of the State of Israel, have led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare the extinction of the group that governs the Gaza Strip. Indeed, Benjamin Netanyahu, in his first statement after the attack, expressed a blunt threat: "Everyone knows what Hamas does. Hamas will be finished. Just as the Western world finished off ISIS, we will finish off Hamas. They wanted war, we will give them war..." (see in Spanish full statement by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, in https://youtu.be/4LAYOdjP5Do?t=44).
What are the implications of this new turn in the Middle East for Venezuela, especially when the entire civilized world, with the exception of Israel's traditional enemies, and the criminals who rule our country, protectors of international terrorism, strongly rejected this attack?
For several years now, I have been writing in this web space that the Castro-Chavist-Madurist regime got us Venezuelans into a foreign war (see in Spanish A foreign war, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2017/02/una-guerra-ajena.html) taking sides with the terrorists who attacked Israel:
"Security experts in the Western
Hemisphere have warned that Venezuela has served as a gateway for terrorists
from organizations such as Hezbollah that have established illicit business
networks, such as money laundering from drug trafficking, as well as terrorist
activities, using citizens from the Middle East who have been living in Latin
American countries for many years. "Venezuela is like a gateway to several
Islamists from all over the Middle East, mainly from Iran, Iraq, Syria,
receiving all kinds of documentation to change their identity and thus reach
North America," said Joseph Humire, executive director of the
Washington-based Center for a Free and Secure Society, according to the Voice
of America" (see
in Spanish Venezuela: Maduro positions himself in favor of Hamas terrorism, at https://www.diariolasamericas.com/america-latina/venezuela-maduro-se-posiciona-favor-del-terrorismo-hamas-n5344806).
The positioning of
Venezuela as a safe haven for terrorists, in this new phase of persecution to
death of groups such as Hamas, will undoubtedly extend beyond the borders of
Israel and of course its natural allies such as the US, affecting the behavior
of all the governments of the world. In fact, right now the European Union is
reinforcing the security of Jewish sites due to the Hamas attack (see El Mundo,
Europa refuerza seguridad en las sinagogas tras el ataque de Hamas, in https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2023/10/08/6522d917e9cf4a20038b4579.html), This is the first step before taking
more drastic measures to stop and suppress these groups wherever they are. The
world experienced this after the attack on the twin towers.
And while this is
bad enough, the worst is yet to come. From a very recent article by Dr. R. Evan
Ellis, a research professor of Latin American studies at the U.S. Army War
College's Strategic Studies Institute, an expert on the region's relations with
China and other actors in the non-Western hemisphere, it is estimated that what
Hamas was really seeking with this remarked violence was: "provoke an Israeli response so severe that it polarized the
region, eliminating the middle ground of those who tolerate Israel and
collaborate with it, while dragging the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) into a
protracted and ultimately unwinnable campaign against enemies that proliferated
among the governments and populations of the Muslim world..." (see R. Evan
Ellis, Implications of the Hamas terror Attacks and the Israeli Response on
Latin America and the Global Strategic Environment, in https://tinyurl.com/yc35df72).
In other words,
Hamas provoked an endless war with Israel of planetary proportions. Here the
world will be divided by violence between two sides, not only in the Middle
East. As Israel exterminates the Hamas terrorist groups in its own backyard,
many of them will move from now on like cockroaches to the four corners of the
world, to places where they have safe haven to continue their war. Yes, you
guessed it: they will come to Venezuela. And they will be here when the
escalation of global polarization arrives.
Then, not only the protection of the Venezuelan regime will come in, but also that of its natural ally: Iran. It is not difficult to imagine from now on that we have a potential time bomb for the US in Venezuela on our hands. Dr. Ellis points out in his article: "Iran's empowerment as a rival to the United States in the unfolding drama could encourage expanded Iranian efforts to threaten the United States in its own external environment, building on the Ebrahim Raisi regime's current new engagement with the region, focused on anti-U.S. regimes such as those in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua."
If the US government, with Joe Biden at the helm, intends to lift sanctions against the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, believing that Venezuela will be a reliable oil supplier for US companies, with a tyranny that has already aligned itself with the Hamas terrorists, with a little help from their friends in Iran, they should, in the worst case scenario, re-evaluate their long-term oil policy for Venezuela after the events of October 7 in Israel.
And in the best case scenario, the US will have to consider as soon as possible that the most convenient thing for its interests and those of its national security, now fortunately coinciding with Venezuelan interests due to the potentially explosive situation in the world, will be the existence of a democracy in Venezuela, with the return of the system of liberties, in order to begin to eradicate the irregular groups in the country. Until now, this was completely indifferent to the US government -for the sake of real politics- before October 7, and amply demonstrated by the direct negotiations carried out with the regime. Now it has ceased to be indifferent and has become a real need for Venezuela to get rid of tyranny in favor of a solid democracy. All that remains is for Joe Biden's administration to run or to get on board in favor of us in 2024...
Caracas, October 16, 2023
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