Again, note that the video (above) is by Al Jazeera which is funded by the Qatari government, and can be biased.
The video is in Spanish, but it there is an option to have it translated to English.
1) Click Settings Wheel and choose Subtitles/CC.
2) Click to turn on: Spanish (auto-generated) .
3) Click – for a second time – to turn on: Subtitles/CC(1) Spanish (auto-generated) .
4) Click auto-translate.
5) Choose English – THIS CAN BE TRICKY – I suggest using up and down arrows to chose English, and then press Enter.
This can be very touchy, and you may have to play with it, but it works. Once you get the hang of it, you can turn the option on in a few seconds.
Unlike the USA, where there are very influential organized pro-Israel advocates, in much of Latin America the Jewish influence can be muted. Hence there is a mixed response of Latin American countries to the Mideast situation.
So Israel has to use different methods – other than it would in the USA or Canada – to get its message across.
Argentina is sort of an exception, as the Jews in Argentina were, by percentages, much larger than in other Latin countries. And Argentina’s president Javier Milei is very pro-Israel.
The real game changer is the rise of strong Evangelical Christianity in Latin America, especially in Brazil, where the Evangelical Christians are close to one-third of the population. When the President was Bolsonaro, the policies of the government were quite pro-Israel. Now that Lula is president, the police of Lula’s anti-Israel stances have to be muted from what they would otherwise be. The Evangelicals in Brazil are a powerful voting bloc.
Again, Brazil is an exception. Under President Bolsonaro, Brazil’s foreign policy was very, very pro-Israel, but the last Brazilian presidential election returned Lula to office. (However, that election was suspicious). Even so, Lula cannot be quite as anti-Israel as he would like, because of the Evangelical votes.
Posted on YouTube: November 13, 2023
So the best thing for Israel to do would be to support Evangelical Christianity.
Too few people realize the full extent of Iran’s role in backing terrorist groups across the Middle East, from Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Even fewer are aware of Iran’s expanding influence in the Western Hemisphere, threatening regional stability and U.S. security at an alarming level.
But we can’t afford to ignore the threat any longer. It’s time for the U.S. to act, forging a comprehensive plan with our allies to preempt Iran’s geopolitical ambitions in our own neighborhood.
As this website has noted, many times, Iran has influence all over Latin America, not just through propaganda with HispanTV, but with smuggling and drug trafficking.
This, unfortunately, is nothing new. It has been going on for years.
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Over the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multibillion-dollar money-laundering and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that cleans organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through multiple waypoints in the Western hemisphere, West Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Traditionally, Hezbollah used the TBA’s illicit economy as a hub for money-laundering—less so for cocaine trafficking. For years, Hezbollah-linked drug traffickers in the TBA moved only relatively small quantities of cocaine. Multi-ton shipments are another story.
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This is a few months old, and frankly, it is a bit of grandstanding, but I just found it, and thought it was worth mentioning.
Rightly or wrongly, Palestine is now being destroyed, even as we speak. Like it or not, that is fact. Yet, Lula of Brazil wants a FREE TRADE agreement with the Palestinians?
BRASILIA – Brazil has put into effect a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority that has been waiting for ratification for more than decade, in a show of support for the Palestinian people.
“The agreement is a concrete contribution to an economically viable Palestinian state, which can live peacefully and harmoniously with its neighbours,” Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on July 9 in a statement.
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Palestinian ambassador in Brasilia, Mr Ibrahim Al Zeben, called Brazil’s decision “courageous, supportive and timely”.
It turns out that Rashida Tlaib has gotten a write up in a Chilean magazine Al-Damir – which means “the conscience” in Arabic – that caters to the Palestinian community in Chile.
NOTE: I am sure that Congresswoman Tlaib has no connection to the article at all in the Chilean magazine. I doubt the Congresswoman is even aware of it. I just find it fascinating that Palestinian-Chileans find her newsworthy.
Palestinian-born Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib who –last July – held a message calling Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu «guilty of genocide », as the leader spoke before Congress of United States, this week has achieved a victory by defeating his Republican opponent in the Michigan Congress 12th district elections, thereby ensuring a fourth term as the only Palestinian-American woman in the United States Congress.
Source: The Media Line (When I tried to relink to the article, the original source had put it behind a paid firewall)
According to official sources, the stated aim of the foundation (translated as “Palestine-Bethlehem 2000”) is to provide “scholarships, medical and economic aid to the Palestinian Authority.” Yet, a Chilean government source described the organization to The Media Line (TML) as a lobby. The Anti-Semitism and Racism Institute claims that this foundation is the chief fund-raising organization in Chile for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Wealthy Palestinians from the Chilean community support the fund, which publishes the monthly journal, A-Damir. In celebration of its first anniversary on June 25, 2002, the foundation organized an event, attended by more than 1,000 invitees that included ministers, Members of Parliament, clerics, army officers and judges. Minister of the Interior Jose Miguel Insulza and Government-Secretary Heraldo Muoz both posed for a photograph, wearing a kafiyah decorated with a map depicting a Palestinian state that encompassed land that today is the entire state of Israel.
A Chilean source connected to the Chilean Intelligence Agency (CIA) told TML that this particular fund managed to collect $6m in one year, but that the funds do not always find their way to needy Palestinians. Instead, much of the money goes to charities identified with Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization.
(emphasis mine)
However, the Palestine-Bethlehem 2000 foundation did garner support from Chilean politicians; and a lot of American and European companies have bought advertising in its magazine (Al Damir) in the past, so that questionable connection might be a minor issue; if it is even an issue at all. Though it was once published in a glossy version, Al Damir now seems to be focused on its online website presence.
NOTE: Al Damir listed its distribution here (below); but, as noted, that information seems to be dated, and it looks like the glossy magazine may be out of print, with the emphasis now being placed on that online website presence.
· Bimonthly publication (January, April, June, August, October and December).
60 – 64 pages
· Interiors: glossy couche paper 90 gr.
· Cover and back cover, glossy couche paper 170 gr.
· Free distribution
· Since 2010 associated with ANP
· Projected reading 20,000
· Free distribution
· 8,000 copies digital version
See article, here on Latin Arabia, to find more background information.
What is clear is that the Palestinian-Chilean community has/had enough wealth and clout to publish a magazine and attract major advertisers to it.
This is a video (below) of the sign display by Congresswoman Tlaib that the Al Damir website article refers to.
Posted on YouTube: July 24, 2024
Al Damir commends Rashida’s behavior.
As one would expect, among Israeli advocates, in this case a gentleman from Britain, Joseph Cohen, Rashida Tlaib is not thought well of.
Posted on YouTube: January 9, 2019
Well, I guess you can’t please everybody.
Even though I am a mild Christian Zionist, I will make no comment about Representative Tlaib in this post, except to note that apparently she is a hero to Palestinians everywhere – even in Chile.
Whether that is good or not, I leave to the reader.
November 22, 2024 – Edited – Added a blockquote. Added emphasis. Noted that a blockquote source link is now behind firewall. Added notes and caution.
