What Venezuela's renewed ties with Israel could mean for Iran

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Venezuela and Israel broke diplomatic relations in 2009, when then President Hugo Chávez expelled the Israeli ambassador in protest of the military offensive in Gaza. Seventeen years later, Caracas and Jerusalem have agreed to establish a mechanism to provide consular services to their citizens again. It is still a limited step, but unthinkable until recently. Much further Colombia has gone. President Abelardo de la Espriella’s government has no…

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Under the interim, Venezuela's foreign policy has turned towards pragmatism, seeking to normalize relations with countries such as Israel and the US.

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The joint decision of Israel and Venezuela, announced on Wednesday 11th, to re-establish consular services, opens, after 17 years, an official channel of communication between the two countries. It also signals an important change in Venezuelan foreign policy, recently marked by hostility to Israel and the strategic approach to Iran. + Read more World news in the West The agreement, however, still does not mean the full resumption of diplomatic …