Posted on YouTube: July 12, 2020
And incredibly excellent history of what happened to Arab Christians. At 7:24, the video explain that many of them went to Latin America.
A Great History of Arab Christians
History
Chile May Be a Possible Solution for Peace
Posted on YouTube: April 2, 2019
Note: The team, CD Palestino was founded in 1920. The reference to 1948 refers to what the Palestinians call the Naqbe.
Chile has been taking in Palestinians since the 19th century. The vast majority were Christians from Beit Jala, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, and Beit Safafa.
Many were fleeing the anti-Christian persecutions of the Ottoman Turks (before 1917), and later some fled the Muslim-Jewish fighting during the Mandate. A few came after the Six Day War in 1967.
However, there were a few Muslims among them: some either converted to Christianity or married Christian women who raised the kids to be Christian. Roughly 99% of the Palestinians in Chile, Chilestinians, are Christian.
These Palestinians have often become elites in Chile, and they wield political power above their numbers.
Chile has a major league soccer (futbol) team called CD (Sports Club) Palestino, which represents the Palestinian community to the world. It is followed not only in Chile, but in Palestine.
There are some who claim that Palestinian identity did not exist until 1967, however …
1920 – CD (Sports Club) Palestino was formed
1938 – Club Palestino (a social club) was opened. This is no minor local club, but is a major cultural force.
Posted on YouTube: February 23, 2017
At the time of this writing, Gaza is brimming over with about 1.8 million people. Gaza is under an Israel blockade, and the situation has become unliveable.
Israel has even offered to pay the flight fare for those Gazan Arabs willing to emigrate from Gaza, but Israel can find no willing countries to take them.
Haaretz, August 20, 2019
Israeli authorities are willing to allow Gaza Strip residents who want to emigrate to fly out via Israel if a country is found to accept them, a senior government official said on Monday. According to the official, Israel would even pay for the flight. The official added that the government had asked a few countries, including some in the Middle East, whether they would be willing to accept Palestinians from Gaza, and was turned down.
Well, Israel should know better.
It will take more than a free flight to get countries to accept the Arabs.
But if Israel is willing to give the Gazans some money – say $100,000 US per person – then Chile might be willing to take in some Gazans, or some Palestinians from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).
The general idea is good; but it will cost more than paying the fare of a few Palestinians willing to leave Gaza.
Chile could easily absorb 100,000 Palestinians – whether from Gaza, or Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), does not matter.
But it will cost more than a free airline ticket.
Now, Chile could not possibly take in all the Palestinians. But 100,000 would be doable, and it would be a good start. At $100,000 US per person, it would be $10 Billion. It would not be cheap.
Israelis Discuss the Palestinian Diaspora in Chile
Posted on YouTube: June 6, 2019
It appears that Israeli academics are becoming very interested in the Arabs of Latin America, with particular attention to the migration of Palestinians to Chile.
The discussions are in English, though the speakers have noticable Hebrew accents.
I wonder if they go any information from this site. Hmm?!
It is a very good history of the Palestinian community in Chile.
Venezuelan Crisis – Arab?! Israel?!
posted on YouTube, February 8, 2019
Without getting too involved in the crisis in Venezuala (as of February 14, 2019), there is an Arab factor to this.
The former-president Hugo Chavez and the present dictator Maduaro were/are both pro-Palestinian. Maduro has allowed the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, into Venezuela.
While it is true that Venezuela had approximately 1,600,000 citizens of Arab descent, about 5% of the population (in 2017), almost all were Christian. They would have had nothing to do with allowing an Islamic insurgency group into Venezuela.
That idiocy was the working of Hugo Chavez who worked out a deal with Iran, Iran’s proxy: Hezbollah, and cooperated with Iran’s propaganda outlet HispanTV.
Source: Radio Farda – Hezbollah’s Presence And Iran’s Influence In Venezuela Coming Into Focus
February 12, 2019Margarita Island off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela serves as a hub for drug trafficking and Hezbollah as well as other Islamist extremists such as Hamas. Margarita Island is being used by Iranian and Iranian-linked militants as a base of operations. Steinitz further added that “attention has focused on the group’s presence among Lebanese Shia in the 12,000-strong Arab community on Margarita Island.”
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Venezuela became interested in asymmetric warfare in 2006 under Chávez. Terrorism is a part of asymmetric warfare, and Venezuela’s participation “has allowed Hezbollah to plan, fundraise, train, coordinate and carry out operations, mostly fundraising and intelligence collection.”
Chavez and Maduro had allowed Hezbollah far too much free reign. Hezbollah has a massive influence in Venezuela, and the opposition to Maduro wants the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, out.
The opposition to Maduro is taking a pro-Israel stance.
Source: MiamiDiario JM – Guaidó cree que Israel puede ayudar a eliminar a Hezbolá de Venezuela
February 14, 2019(Guadio believes that Israel can help eliminate Hezbollah from Venezuela)
You read that rightly. The present contender, Juan Guaidó, wants Israel to help Venezuela get Hezbollah out.
Let us hope that Hezbollah is soon evicted from Venezuela.
However, we should be aware that Islamic influences have gone too far in Latin America, already. There was never a danger of a South American country becoming an Islamic Republic; but there is a large amount of anti-Israel attitudes among some Latins, much of which was purchased by Iran and (originally) Saudi Arabia – though Saudi Arabia is starting to have a rapprochement with Israel.
Again, this is not to say that Venezuela will be turning Islamic any time soon. Not by a long shot! The vast majority of Venezuelans of Arab descent are Christian – some even Evangelical Christian.
While there are Muslims in Venezuela, their numbers are grossly exaggerated; and Muslims are less than 1% of the population. Many of those might leave if Maduro is booted out of office.
But, as noted, Iranian money has been spent to foster an anti-Israel stance in much of Latin America. In Venezuela, this may be about to end.
Around the same time, Brazil has elected a pro-Israel president whose wife is Evangelical. The Evangelicals (pro-Israel) are turning the tide in South America.