Cumbia Palestina

Cumbia Palestina


Posted on YouTube: December 15. 2020

Cumbia is a popular form of music throughout Latin America.

This video is clearly political, by the Orkestra Popular San Bomba (Holy Music Popular Orchestra).

Orkestra Popular literally means Popular Orchesta, but in actuality would mean something like Pop Music or Street Music.

Bomba literally means bomb, but has so many meanings that it is impossible to translate apart from context. In this context, it probably means music. Bomba is a type of MUSIC.

San means holy.

The group’s name is clearly farcical and idiomatic.

This is the group’s Facebook Page (here).

Again, one must remember that in Latin America there is no equivalent of AIPAC, so the Palestinian viewpoint is more mainstream. The chief exception is Brazil, which has a very large pro-Israel Evangelical community. But this video comes from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Israel Accuses Pro-Palestinian Chilean Senator

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(Note: The picture is of the Chliean Congress, which is in Valparaiso, not the capital, Santiago.)

If you think that American politics can be weird, then look at Chile, where Palestinian-Christians have outsized influence.

Source: The Times Chile
September 25, 2020
Translated by app.

After an exhaustive investigation, the Embassy of Israel in Chile announces that the statements of Senator Alejando Navarro about the alleged destruction by Israel of 100,000 tests for Covid-19 destined for the Palestinian Authority, are absolutely false and lack any basis in reality

It is very regrettable that while the Middle East breathes airs of peace and cooperation, parliamentary authorities defend the most extreme positions, spreading fake news , inciting hatred and trying to delegitimize Israel.After an exhaustive investigation, the Embassy of Israel in Chile announces that the statements of Senator Alejando Navarro about the alleged destruction by Israel of 100,000 tests for Covid-19 destined for the Palestinian Authority, are absolutely false and lack any basis in reality

Senator Navarro is a left-wing politican.

This would be almost unheard of in the United States, but it is quite acceptable for Chilean politicians to attack Israel. Chile has no equivalent of AIPAC to insert the Israeli viewpoint into the political mainstream, rather it has a very well-educated, elite, and prosperous anti-Israel Palestinian-Chilean population who can exert influence above their numbers.

Chile does have a small Jewish community, but it does NOT have the population, nor the power, of Chile’s Palestinian community.

Some of the anti-Israel/Jewish comments coming from Chilean politicians can border on the bizarre. One of the most famous/nutty claims was that Israel wanted to take over Patagonia.

As noted, in other posts, Chile’s foreign policy in the Mideast is seriously influenced by its anti-Zionist Palestinian-Chileans, who, ironically, are almost totally Christian.

Palestinians Flexed Muscles in Chile

Source: MEMO
July 10, 2020

The Chilean Senate last week approved a resolution calling on President Sebastian Pinera Echenique to adopt a law boycotting settlement goods and banning commercial activity with companies that operate in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The motion passed on 30 June with 29 votes in favour and six abstentions, no votes were cast against the move.

This story is about two months late before I caught it on a written news story, here, but it was not headlines in America. — Though I did catch it earlier (Click Here) as a video report.

The World Jewish Congress considers the Chilean Senate’s move to be anti-semitic.

There is no way that this could have occurred in the United States. In Chile,even conservative presidents, like Pinera, have to yield to the Palestinian bloc.

Two Year Old Video Shows Power of Palestinians in Chile

Two Year Old Video Shows Power of Palestinians in Chile


Posted on YouTube: Mar 29, 2018

It is hard to understand the power that Palestinians have in Chilean politics. There is no equivalent here in the USA.

But this Chilean senator (Alejandro Navarro) went to the Fourth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine.

I do not think he, himself, is Palestinian in origin, but he embraces their cause.

He is still a senator in Chile, as of this writing.

Can you imagine an American senator doing what Senator Navarro did?

This video came from MEMRI – a pro-Israel advocacy group. They claim to be non-partisan.

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