Venezuela Blames Zionist Plot for Maduro Capture as Israel Celebrates U.S. Military Operation
Source : theoccidentalobserver.net – January 7, 2026 – José Nino
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In the chaotic hours following the American military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, 2026, Acting President Delcy Rodriguez delivered a nationally televised address that invoked a familiar scapegoat for the Bolivarian regime. Surrounded by high-level officials including her brother Jorge Rodriguez, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, and the foreign and defense ministers, she characterized the American intervention with language that has become a hallmark of Venezuelan government rhetoric.
“The governments of the world are simply shocked that Venezuela is the victim and target of an attack of this nature, which undoubtedly has Zionist overtones,” Rodriguez declared during her address. Some translations rendered her phrase as having “Zionist undertones” or a “Zionist tinge,” but the message remained consistent. Venezuela’s leadership was blaming Jewish influence for the military strikes and subsequent Delta Force raid that resulted in Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores being flown to New York to face narcoterrorism charges.
Rodriguez framed the operation as part of broader colonial ambitions, stating that “the masks have fallen” and revealing what she claimed were true American intentions to dismantle Venezuelan independence. “We will never again be slaves, that we will never again be a colony of any empire,” she emphasized to the Venezuelan people while describing the capture as an “illegal, illegitimate kidnapping.”
The invocation of Zionism as a conspiratorial force represents nothing new for the Venezuelan political establishment. Following his disputed election against opposition challenger Edmundo González Urrutia in summer 2024, Maduro blamed “international Zionism” for subsequent protests. He claimed that “all the communication power of Zionism, which controls all the social networks, the satellites and all the power is behind this coup d’état,” according to reports from that period.
In November 2025, Maduro escalated his rhetoric further, stating that “far-right Zionists want to hand this country over to the devils.” The U,S. State Department’s religious freedom reports have documented that “criticism of Israel in Maduro-controlled or affiliated media continued to carry anti-Semitic overtones, sometimes disguised as anti-Zionist messages.”
These allegations of a Zionist conspiracy to destabilize Venezuela build on a longer history of Venezuelan hostility toward Israel that accelerated under the late-Hugo Chavez and continued under Maduro’s leadership. The deterioration began during the Second Intifada when Chavez sponsored rallies supporting Palestinians. The first direct targeting of Venezuela’s Jewish community occurred in May 2004 when the Sephardic Tiferet Israel Synagogue in Caracas was attacked following a government-backed pro-Palestinian rally.
The situation escalated dramatically during the 2006 Lebanon War. Chavez accused Israel of carrying out genocide and in August 2006 recalled Venezuela’s ambassador from Israel. “Israel has gone mad. They are massacring children, and no one knows how many are buried,” Chavez declared at the time.
Venezuela’s complete break with Israel came on January 14, 2009, during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Chavez described Israel’s military offensive as a “cruel persecution of the Palestinian people, directed by Israeli authorities.” The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry announced the severance of diplomatic ties, stating the move was made “given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people carried out by the authorities of Israel.”
Following this diplomatic rupture, Venezuela officially recognized Palestine on April 27, 2009, becoming the first country in the Americas to establish formal diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority.
While Rodriguez blamed Zionist machinations for the American operation, leading Israeli officials openly celebrated Maduro’s capture as a strategic victory that would weaken Iran’s hemispheric network. As this author has previously noted, Venezuela’s strategic alliance with Iran has drawn sharp criticism from policymakers in Washington and Tel Aviv, serving as justification for various regime change operations and destabilization tactics targeting the South American country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led the praise with congratulations posted to social media. “Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice. I salute your decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers,” Netanyahu wrote, though he did not explicitly name the Venezuela operation at the time.
In a subsequent press conference, Netanyahu expanded his remarks. “I express the full support of the Israeli government for the determined decision and decisive action of the United States regarding Venezuela. This is about restoring freedom and justice to another region of the world. Across Latin America, we are witnessing a historic shift — countries returning to the American axis and renewing ties with Israel.”
Netanyahu’s reference to a “historic shift” toward Israeli normalization reflects the broader Isaac Accords initiative, which seeks to establish diplomatic relations with Latin American countries that could guarantee favorable conditions for Israeli interests in the Western Hemisphere.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar manifested the most resounding endorsement from Tel Aviv, explicitly expressing hope for renewed diplomatic relations between Israel and Venezuela. “Israel commends the United States’ operation, led by President Trump, which acted as the leader of the free world,” Sa’ar stated publicly. “At this historic moment, Israel stands alongside the freedom-loving Venezuelan people, who have suffered under Maduro’s illegal tyranny.”
The cheerful endorsement from Tel Aviv, coupled with a clear strategic interest in reshaping Latin America, suggests that allegations of a Zionist agenda in Venezuela are not the ravings of a paranoid regime, but a sober reading of the geopolitical realities of a Western political order dominated by world Jewry.
