Prime Minister Netanyahu has tweeted this afternoon following unofficial announcements in the Israeli media earlier in the day that Israel will be joining the US, Canada, and a number of Western European countries in declaring Juan Guaido as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela and withdrawing recognition of the embattled dictator Maduro. While this is not widely known, Israel has had very close ties with Venezuela dating back to the 1970s, when it helped the country develop much of its oil refining capacity. Maduro’s socialist regime, however, was ardently anti-Israeli, aligning itself with other pariah states such as Iran and Russia.
Baruch Pletner
Baruch Pletner is an entrepreneur, a scientist, an inventor, and a private pilot. He is passionate about education, the outdoors, and the war on globalism. Baruch holds a PhD degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.
Born in Kiev to Zionist parents, Baruch spent the first ten years of his life in the Soviet Union getting an education in the evils of communism. Though both of his grandfathers were killed defending the USSR against Nazi invaders, Baruch was a victim of rampant anti-Semitism from as long as he can remember, making his departure for Israel in 1973 a very welcome event. In Israel, Baruch served in the Air Force as a Fire Control Officer in a HAWK surface to air missile battery and took part in the First Lebanon War. While his career in engineering took him to Boston, Baruch has remained an ardent Zionist and supporter of the Jewish Nation, the Torah, and the Land of Israel.
Fluent in three languages and a student of history and the classics, Baruch has been writing for tsarizm.com as the Hi-Tech Traditionalist for a number of years, covering the war on globalism, Russia, and Israel. Baruch resides in Prince Edward Island, Canada, with his wife of 33 years and their two dogs and one cat.