Chavez withdraws ambassador to Israel

On Thursday of this week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the withdrawal of Venezuela's ambassador to Israel in protest to what he described as an "imperialist offensive" against Lebanon and the Palestinians that was orchestrated by the United States.

on Friday in an interview with Qatar-based Al Jazeera television, he described Washington as a:

"Dracula always searching for oil and blood".

And stated:

"The Israeli offensive against the Palestinians and Lebanon is an aggression that we feel targets us also. It is an unjustified aggression that is being carried out in the style of Hitler, in a Fascist fashion, they are doing what Hitler did against the Jews. They are killing innocent children and whole families".