“Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust. But this is a new Holocaust.”

—  Hugo Chávez

In protest of Israel's military offensive in Lebanon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5258722.stm
2006

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