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Santiago is the capital of Chile, in the center of the country. The city has a sub-tropical climate.

Palestinian Soccer Team in Chile Still Grips Imagination

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Palestinian Soccer Team in Chile Still Grips Imagination


Posted on YouTube: May 2023
(You have to watch it on YouTube)

Another fascinating video from Chile about the soccer (futbol) team, CD Palestino. It has been an international sensation.

The fans of CD Palestino (Palestinian Sports Club) affectionately call themselves Baisanos because their ancestors, who came to Chile 100 years ago called themselves countrymen, which is Spanish is paisano, only, being Arab in origin, they mispronounced the p as B, hence Baisanos.

At one time, the team members were required to be of Palestinian origins, but that is no longer required.

The fan base include a lot of non-Arab aficionados.

The video (which you have to click to watch on YouTube itself) shows that the team in Chile has become a sort of unofficial national team for the Palestinians in the Mideast. But there are issues. The Chilean team sponsors gender equality which does not go over so well in the repressed Islamic region.

Chile’s President Wants to Open an Embassy in Palestine

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Chile’s President Wants to Open an Embassy in Palestine

This will cause some issues:

Soruce: Times of Israel – Dec 22, 2022

SANTIAGO, Chile — President Gabriel Boric of Chile, whose country has the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, said Wednesday that he planned to open an embassy “in Palestine.”

The announcement by the leftist president, who began his four-year term in March 2022, came at a Christmas ceremony for Chile’s Palestinian community, estimated to be more than 300,000 strong.

“One of the decisions we have taken as a government, I think we have not yet made it public… is that we will raise the level of our official representation in Palestine,” Boric said. “We will open an embassy under our government.”

Chile has a large, prosperous, and powerful Palestinian community, so this wsa probably inevitable, but it will be controversial.

Palestino Soccer Club Is Now An International Force

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Posted on YouTube: October 21, 2020

The documentary is subtitled in English.

This is not exaggerationg, but the Palestino [Palestinian] Soccer Club of Santiago, Chile has become world renowned. It gets involved in Mideast Politics.

NOTE: The team is regularly referred to as CD Palestino which means Club Deportivo Palestino, which means Palestinian Sports CLub.

Locally, in Chile, CD Palestino will have moments of silence before any game for any occasion when Palestinians are killed in the Mideast conflict between Israel and Palestine.

CD Palestino’s fame has spread to the Mideast, where its players are more well known that they are in Chile.

This team is well known internationally, however, there is another force in Chile … Evangelical Christians, and they are … pro-Israel. On a per capita basis they may not be as rich as Palestinian-Chileans, but there are a whole lot more Evangelicals than Palestinians.

Protest in Front of Israeli Embassy in Chile

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Protest in Front of Israeli Embassy in Chile


Posted on YouTube: May 20, 2021

Yes, I know, I am posting this about 9 days late. The video of the protest was posted on Friday, a week and two days ago.

But better late than never.

Chile has a wealthy, very influential Palestinian community, and they are fervently against Israel, and they make themselves felt in Chilean politics.

December 23, 2021 – Minor edit

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