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Report on Chile’s Palestinian Population During War

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Report on Chile’s Palestinian Population During War


Posted on YouTube: November 7, 2023

Bolivia has cut off ties with Israel, while Colombia and Chile have recalled ambassadors. Pro-Palestinianism is MUCH stronger in Latin America than in the USA.

Source: Reuters: In Chile, a Palestinian diaspora makes its voice heard on Gaza
by Alexander Villegas

SANTIAGO, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Chile’s Palestinian community, the largest outside the Middle East, is a strong force in the Andean nation, involved in local politics, culture and soccer. Now it’s making Chile one of the loudest regional voices criticizing Israel over its military action in Gaza.

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, a moderate figure in the Latin American left, recalled the country’s ambassador in Tel Aviv last week and said Israel was not abiding by international law.

On a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Boric added that the Israeli military operation “at this stage acts as a collective punishment to the civilian population in Gaza.” He brought up the issue with President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting last Thursday in Washington.

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The article does not go into full depth that the vast majority of Palestinians in Chile are Christians, who fled Ottoman Islamic rule. They seem to have forgotten that aspect of their ancestor’s lives and identity with a halcyon past of religious tolerance in the Holy Land that never existed.

Many of these Palestinian Chileans (Chilestinos) are multi-generational Chilean and intermarried.

But it does note their influence. Chile did pull its ambassador out of Israel.

While Europe and the USA are strongly in favor of Israel, Latin America is mixed.

Argentina, Chile, and Columbia Condemn Hospital Attack

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Argentina, Chile, and Columbia Condemn Hospital Attack

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Source: (CNN Spanish) — Through their accounts on X, formerly Twitter, the foreign ministries of Colombia, Argentina and Chile condemned the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in northern Gaza.

The Argentine Foreign Ministry offered humanitarian aid to the population affected by the conflict through the Argentine Agency for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance, the White Helmets.

“Colombia joins the urgent call of the different United Nations Organizations (WHO, Unicef), since it considers necessary the protection of civilians in the midst of the conflict, as well as respect for international humanitarian law, which establishes that the attention of health must be actively protected and never be an objective,” the Colombian Foreign Ministry detailed in a statement.

A rocket has landed on Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Both sides are blaming the other.

What is clear is that, at the time of this story, the culprit for the attack has not been 100% verified yet.

October 23, 2023 — Edited. Updates seem to show that Israel was not guilty, but that the rocket was from Gaza, and disintegrated over the hospital.


Posted on YouTube: October 22, 2023

Israel seems to be innocent on this one.

Brazilian Evangelical Support Israel During Crisis

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Brazilian Evangelical Support Israel During Crisis

Source: Fohla de S.Paulo – English Edition – October 9, 2023

Why Do So Many Evangelicals in Brazil Support Israel in the New Conflict?

This new stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revived the popularity of Zionism within this religious segment

The eruption of a new conflict in Israel has flooded evangelical social media with the white and blue flag bearing the Star of David in its center. This new stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revived the popularity of Zionism within this religious segment, even prompting expressions of support from this religious bloc in Congress.

Brazil is one of those countries where a very large Evangelical constituency can override Arab sympathies in the political realm. The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was very pro-Israel. The current president is not so.


Rio De Janiero protest in support of Israel
Posted on YouTube: October 15, 2023


Pro-Israel supporters from another view.
Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2023

Almost one-third of Brazil is now Evangelical Christian (31%) – who tend to support Zionism – and the government, even though it is leftist, has to respect their political power.


Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2023

One can see the enormous numbers of people who support Israel. Yet, there are not a lot of Jews in Brazil, relatively speaking. Roughly 110,000 which is one-twentieth of one percent (0.05%) of the population.

So where is this support coming from: The Evangelicals.

Yes, there is pro-Palestinian support (see video below) but it will be drowned out.

Remember that the Arabs in Brazil are, in the vast majority, Christian, and some of those would be Evangelical or, at the least, moderate Maronites. So even though Brazil has roughly 15 million Arabs, the Evangelicals will win.


News report on pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel supporters.
Posted on YouTube: October 11, 2023

The Evangelical Christians are making demographic gains daily. While there will be pro-Palestinian support in Brazil, in the end, the politics will sway to Israel. The Evangelicals are powerful — powerful enough that the leftist president Lula da Silva has had to moderate his position.

Added October 24 (below):

Not just the Evangelicals in Brazil. Apparently, there was a massive street protest in favor of Israel in Buenos Aires. Argentina has a massive amount of influential Jews — circa 180,000.

Expect Brazil, with its large Evangelical base, and Argentina – with a large Jewish community – to be more muted or balanced in taking sides in this war, unlike Chile or Honduras where Palestinians are large, elite, and powerful.

The video below was posted on October 16 which leads me to believe that this protest and the Brazilian demonstrations were coordinated to occur around the same time, across Brazil and Argentina, as a large scale show of political power.

Argentina, the Other Outlier with Lots of Jews

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Argentina, the Other Outlier with Lots of Jews

Note: image was ai-generated.

Argentina still has a lot of Jews; the sixth largest community of Jews outside of Israel. Unlike Chile, where Palestinians are influential, the Jews of Argentina still pack a wallop.

Source: Jewish organisations in Argentina stage march in support of Israel
Buenos Aires Times
October 9, 2023

Hundreds of people took part in a march in Buenos Aires on Monday in support of Israel following the deadly terror attacks carried out by the Islamist group Hamas in the Middle East.

Headed by the country’s leading Jewish organisations, the march in Almagro was a chance for porteños [Buenos Aires citizens] to show solidarity with Israel.

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The pro-Israel rally took place on a symbolic corner of the capital’s Almagro neighbourhood, where the Estado de Israel and Estado de Palestina streets intersect. The national anthems of both Israel and Argentina were played during the event, while demonstrators waved Israeli flags.

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“The only solution is for the Gaza Strip, which originally belonged to the Jewish people, to be vacated,” Rafael Yablonosky, a 60-year-old doctor, said as he rallied.

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Mr. Yablonosky’s comment is interesting, as he does not say where the Gazans should go.

But, historically, Argentina has been somewhat friendly to Jews.

What about Juan Peron and the Nazis?

Juan Peron was NOT a Nazi. He considered Italian Fascist economics as interesting, but that was economics. He did not purchase into Germany’s racial theories. One of Peron’s advisors was Jewish.

Argentina had a problem with leftists, and at that time in history, many Jews were leftist. Conservative Jews were usually left alone. There were issues during the period of the junta (1976-83), but the junta went after every suspected leftist, Jew or Gentile.

Jews have had a major role in Argetina’s history. They contributed a lot to the evolution of tango music.

The Jewish population in Argentina is large, because, for the most part, Argentina was welcoming to Jews.


Posted on YouTube: October 10, 2023


Argentina Had the First Jewish City in the World
Posted on YouTube: 2022

True! Check out video about Moisés Ville (above).

In fact, Theodore Herzl and Baron Maurice de Hirsch even considered purchasing a province in Argentina to create the Jewish state. The rabbis shot that idea down.

For them, it was the Holy Land or Nothing.

November 23, 2024 – Edited: Had to resource the blockquote, and make corrections.

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