Foreign office officials have told the Agencia Jud?a de Noticias that Israel is "very worried" by the influence of lebanese militia in Venezuela. Last week, an article published in the LA Times noted that Venezuela was a safehaven for the Islamic terrorism of Hezbollah. The article went on to claim that the group may have an operations center in Venezuela, invoking an immediate reaction from the Venezuelan jewish community.

The President of la Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas de Venezuela, Abraham Levy Benshimol, said that the possibility of a Hezbollah presence in his country was "worrying". "Clearly this worries us considerably", stressed a highly-placed source in the Israeli foreign office. The article also warned of a strengthening link between Chavez and the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Since the publication of the article in the LA Times, the Israeli foreign office has remained silent, but today, unofficially, accepted that the accuracy of its contents is 'reasonably certain'. Furthermore, the article confirmed that two Venezuelans with Arab surnames had bank accounts in numerous countries, from which they financed terrorist groups. Because of this, the US Treasury has frozen their accounts.

Source:noticias24.com