Chile’s Senate Remembered Gazans?

Chile’s Senate Remembered Gazans?

Posted on YouTube: May 19, 2021

Can you image that in the U.S. Senate?

NO WAY!

The Palestinians in Chile have clout.

Senator Alejando Navarro, a leftist senator, started by mentioning how bad conditions in Gaza were. Then he noted that there was talk of a conquest of Gaza. Then the Senator put forth a request to remember the victims of both sides.

The president of the Senate approved the motion to remember the dead civilians and children of the Israel-Gaza war, but he kept the tone diplomatically neutral by re-stating that the moment of silence would be for the victims of all sides.

However, the Palestine Federation of Chile labelled their video on YouTube as if the Chilean Senate was honoring the Gazan victims – without mentioning that the moment of silence also remembered Israeli victims.

Make no mistake, the Palestine Federation of Chile is powerful in Chile. Even non-Arab-Chileans will yield to its influence.

One prominent Jewish Chilean has spoken in the past about the Palestinian-Chilean community’s power …

Source: Police in Chile guard Jews after anti-Semitic attacks – JPOST
August 18, 2010

The Palestinian community is to Chile what the Jewish community is to the U.S.

– Gabriel Zaliasnek, then president of Chile’s Jewish Federation

Remember that Chile is not a third-world dictatorship, but a borderline first-world country with a functioning democracy. It is a trend setter in Latin America.

Such pro-Palestinian sympathies in a Western democracy is troubling.

Both the Israelis and Jewish groups have started to notice this.

The World Jewish Congress posted this on YouTube last year:

Posted on YouTube: July 1, 2020

Jewish groups are not happy with Chile.

Jewish Chilean Boasts In Turn Of Events

Source: Aurora (Israel)
[Translated by app]
August 17, 2020

The Chilean anti-Semitic balloon burst

We Israeli Chileans are left with the satisfaction of seeing the anti-Semitic balloon burst in the face of those parliamentarians who invested time paid for by resources of all Chileans in seeking to harm a democratic state 13,000 kilometers away, based on media rumors, rumors that they became conditions for a peace agreement.

We hope that the new Chile, post-social outbreak and post-pandemic, knows how to monitor its political representatives, those who seek political warfare as a payment currency before some local extremist factions, instead of cooperation and the advancement of the peoples. The United Arab Emirates chose a path, let’s hope that Chilean parliamentarians know how to choose a similar one.

Gabriel Colodro
President of the Chilean Community of Israel

If Palestinian-Chileans are happy that the Chilean government is considering a boycott of West Bank (Judea and Samaria) products (Click Here), then Jewish-Chileans are countering with the success of the recent Israel-UAE diplomatic embrace, which they see as the more important development.

What is clear is that while Palestinians have influence in Chile, there is still a small “remnant” of Jews in Chile who have some say, even if they are outnumbered by Palestinians (about 30 to 1).

The writer of the opinion piece, Gabriel Colodro, is taking a stab at those Chilean parliamentarians who have supported BDS.

NOTE: Though the webpage is in Spanish, Aurora has an Israeli nation code in its URL, indicating that the website itself may originate from Israel. The site seems to be Israeli.

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