Saruman
Sep 29, 2025
The United States is nearing an unprecedented military confrontation with Venezuela. The crisis escalated earlier this month following a U.S. drone strike that killed 11 suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the first such attack in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. This was followed by another attack on September 15, 2025, that killed three suspected drug traffickers.
Days later, Venezuelan F-16s flew over U.S. warships, prompting warnings from the Pentagon and threats from President Donald Trump to shoot down any aircraft that approached. Since then, Washington has deployed its largest naval presence in the Caribbean in decades, including 4,500 sailors and marines, destroyers equipped with Tomahawk missiles, submarines, an amphibious assault ship, and 10 F-35s stationed in Puerto Rico.
This confrontation comes in the wake of the controversial Venezuelan elections of July 2024, widely condemned as fraudulent, in which opposition candidate Edmundo González claimed victory, but the electoral council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner. Jewish political scientist Steven Levitsky described the official results as “one of the most egregious electoral frauds in modern Latin American history.” The protests left at least 22 dead and more than 2,000 detained.
Once Donald Trump returned to office, his administration intensified sanctions and terrorism designations, labeling the Tren de Aragua and the Cartel of the Suns as narco-terrorist organizations and invoking the Foreign Enemies Act against Venezuelan nationals linked to these groups.
The roots of the hostility go back to Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in 1999, his survival of a US-backed coup in 2002, and decades of escalating sanctions, accusations, and regime-change attempts. Analysts see Trump’s current escalation as a resurgence of the Monroe Doctrine, Washington’s traditional claim to hemispheric hegemony.
However, what makes the current crisis uniquely explosive is the deepening of Venezuela’s ties with Russia, which signed a sweeping 10-year strategic agreement with Maduro in May 2025, and with China, which openly opposed US naval development. Venezuela, with the world’s largest proven oil reserves (300 billion barrels, 17% of the global total), has become not only a prize in energy geopolitics but also a node in the emerging Moscow-Beijing-Caracas axis.
However, beneath the surface of this escalating military confrontation lies a neglected dimension: the Jewish factor in US-Venezuela relations. Israel's strategic concerns have played a significant role in shaping US policy toward Caracas. As Venezuela has solidified its position as the most consistently anti-Zionist country in South America, Jewish factions within the US foreign policy establishment have increasingly viewed Caracas as a threat that extends far beyond traditional hemispheric security concerns.
The Anti-Zionist Evolution of Venezuela Under Chávez
The deterioration of relations between Venezuela and Israel accelerated during the Second Intifada, when the Chávez government sponsored demonstrations in support of the Palestinian cause. The first direct attack against the Venezuelan Jewish community occurred in May 2004, when the Sephardic synagogue Tiferet Israel in Caracas was attacked following a pro-Palestinian demonstration supported by the government.
The situation worsened dramatically during the 2006 Lebanon War, when Chávez accused Israel of genocide. In August 2006, Venezuela withdrew its ambassador from Israel and subsequently declared: “Israel has gone mad. They are massacring children, and no one knows how many are buried.”
Venezuela’s complete break with Israel occurred on January 14, 2009, during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Chávez described the Israeli military offensive as a “cruel persecution of the Palestinian people, directed by the Israeli authorities.” The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry announced the severing of diplomatic relations, stating that the measure was taken “given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people by the Israeli authorities.”
Following this diplomatic break, Venezuela officially recognized Palestine on April 27, 2009, becoming the first country in the Americas to establish formal diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority.
Likud in Caracas: The Israeli Hand Behind the Venezuelan Opposition
The Venezuelan opposition has adopted a radically different approach in its relations with Israel. A clear example of this is María Corina Machado, leader of the liberal party Vente Venezuela, who in July 2020 signed a formal cooperation agreement with the Israeli ruling party, Likud.
The agreement promised collaboration on “political, ideological, and social issues, as well as strengthening cooperation on strategic, geopolitical, and security matters.” It explicitly stated its objective of “bringing the people of Israel and the people of Venezuela closer together, promoting Western values of freedom, independence, and a market economy.”
Machado described this as sending “a clear message to Nicolás Maduro” and indicated that if she came to power, she would restore diplomatic relations with Israel.
Israel’s Recognition of Juan Guaidó
Israel was one of the first countries to recognize Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela during the 2019 presidential crisis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s recognition on January 27, 2019, stating that Israel “joins the United States, as well as Canada, most South American countries, and European nations.”
According to Axios, the Trump administration had specifically asked Israel to publicly support the regime change campaign against Maduro.
Guaidó thanked Netanyahu for the recognition with rhetoric that explicitly links Venezuela’s struggle to the liberation from the Holocaust: “Seventy-four years ago, the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated, and today, just as our country is also fighting for its freedom, we thank the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, for his recognition and support.”
Venezuela’s Strategic Alliance with Iran
Venezuela has forged strong ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1999, creating what both countries describe as an “axis of unity” against U.S. imperialism. Chávez’s first visit to Iran in 2001 marked the beginning of what would become a strategic alliance based on shared resistance to the overreach of the Judeo-American empire in their respective spheres of influence.
The relationship deepened after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election as president of Iran in 2005. Through numerous exchanges, Chávez and Ahmadinejad established hundreds of bilateral agreements. Their alliance grew so close that, in 2006, Chávez promised to "support Iran at any time and under any conditions."
During a speech at the University of Tehran in 2010, Chávez warned: "If the American empire manages to consolidate its dominance, humanity will have no future. Therefore, we must save humanity and end the American empire."
The Hezbollah Connection
The alliance between Iran and Venezuela has expanded to include Hezbollah, a longtime Iranian ally that has raised security concerns for Empire Judaica. US officials claim that Iran and Hezbollah maintain operational networks in Venezuela that facilitate drug trafficking and money laundering. These networks reportedly collaborate with Venezuelan military elites from the Cartel of the Suns in cocaine trafficking, and Hezbollah allegedly acts as a primary source of funding and money laundering for narco-terrorist groups like the Tren de Aragua.
Security experts say Hezbollah operates in Venezuela through clan structures embedded in the Maduro government’s illicit economy. The Venezuelan airline Conviasa operates regular flights between Caracas, Damascus, and Tehran, which Hezbollah reportedly uses to transport operatives, recruits, and cargo in and out of the region.
These accusations of Hezbollah infiltration further fueled Maduro’s narrative that his internal opposition is part of a broader Zionist conspiracy.
Under Maduro’s rule, relations between Venezuela and Iran have continued to strengthen: Tehran has supplied gasoline shipments during fuel shortages, cooperated on military matters (including drone technology), provided assistance in evading sanctions, and signed a multi-billion-dollar trade and investment agreement.
Maduro’s accusations regarding “international Zionism”
Following the controversial 2024 Venezuelan elections, Maduro repeatedly blamed “international Zionism” for the country’s internal problems. In August 2024, after widespread protests over alleged electoral fraud, Maduro claimed that his opposition was supported and funded by international Zionist networks.
“All the communication power of Zionism, which controls all social media, satellites, and all the power behind this coup,” Maduro declared in a televised address. He also called Argentine President Javier Milei, who currently leads the most pro-Semitic government in Latin America, a “Zionist” and a “social sadist.”
Maduro’s comments drew sharp criticism from Deborah Lipstadt, then U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, who accused him of reviving classic anti-Semitic tropes about Jews controlling global affairs.
“Maduro’s absurd claim that Jews are behind the election protests in Venezuela is anti-Semitic and unacceptable,” Lipstadt tweeted. “The Venezuelan people have taken to the streets to peacefully demand a recount of their votes. We reject all forms of anti-Semitism, and the use of these kinds of age-old clichés fuels hatred against Jews in Latin America and around the world.”
The enduring neoconservative order
The US approach to Venezuela cannot be understood without acknowledging the influence of neoconservative ideology on US foreign policy over the past 30 years. Neoconservatism posits that the United States is an exceptional political system that should expand its model of democracy across the globe. But this is only a small part of it. Its ultimate goal is to make the world a safe haven for Zionist supremacy, an ideological current marked by significant Jewish overrepresentation.
Stephen McGlinchey, a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of the West of England, observed: “The central tenet of Bush’s neoconservative foreign policy package, revolutionary democratization, is intrinsically linked to Israel’s security.” Under this Jewish supremacist framework, any country that adopts a principled anti-Zionist stance is seen as a threat to Jewish-American interests.
Like many Jewish movements, neoconservatism relies on subservient Gentiles to implement its agenda. Currently, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a veteran interventionist with his sights set on rebuilding Latin America in the image of the dysfunctional United States, is leading the campaign to overthrow the Maduro government. Rubio, a proponent of regime change, has maintained close ties with Venezuelan opposition figures such as María Corina Machado, pressing for harsher sanctions and greater diplomatic isolation.
Venezuela’s affinity with Iran—the bête noire of global Jewry—further motivates Rubio and his Jewish allies to implement punitive measures against Caracas. Any country that deviates from this consensus becomes a new target for regime change.
The collapse of US-Venezuela relations represents a complex intersection of hemispheric hegemony, energy geopolitics, and Jewish concerns. While oil reserves and great power competition offer the obvious explanations for US hostility, the Israeli factor adds a crucial dimension that has been systematically underestimated in policy analysis.
By emerging as South America’s most reliable anti-Zionist country, aligning itself with Iran, and tolerating Hezbollah’s presence, Venezuela has provoked the ire of Jewish policymakers in Washington, who interpret its challenges to Israel as pretexts for expanding American power in defense of Zionist objectives.
Taken together, these dynamics reveal that Venezuelan defiance is not perceived in Washington simply as a hemispheric issue, but as part of a broader ideological battle linked to Israel’s security and the global reach of Zionist influence. With Jewish interests shaping foreign policy at the highest levels, defending genuine American interests becomes impossible.
Source: https://elcontacto.cl/el-papel-no-contado-del-pueblo-judio-en-la-crisis-venezolana/
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