Google has acted against two Iranian state broadcasters, Press TV and Hispan TV, blocking access “without warning” to their YouTube and Gmail accounts.
According to Israeli press reports, this came as a response to the publication of incendiary, false accusations that Israel had been conducting medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners. Google declined to comment on the reason for the blocks, but there has been an intensifying crackdown on Iranian social media in light of the U.S. government tightening restrictions on the country.
Apparently, HispanTV set up another YouTube channel to defeat the Google’s block.
In this case, the video was about some Arabs in Gaza protesting the upcoming Israeli annexation.
In Latin America, lobbying for Israel is rather weak, so there is no strong counterbalance to anti-Zionist propaganda, as there would be in the United States.
Translation from the description of the YouTube Video – using Google Translate.
TAQALID, a Palestinian Festival that seeks to reunite Palestinian families from Latin America, sharing their millennial culture with the rest of the world, this year was held in Lima, Peru. The Great Taqalid Party was held at the Palestinian Arab Union Club and featured Haitham Khalaily, the Palestinian finalist for Arab Idol as a guest artist. The images are their own.
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.
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.
