Chile has the world’s largest Palestinian-Christian population. They have set up Palestinian Charities. One of the more (in)famous is the Palestine-Bethlehem Foundation 2000 which runs a website in both Spanish and English, though the magazine section is only in Spanish.
Palestinians in Chile being elite, they have clout like Jewish groups do in the USA. This video below was by a group of doctors who regularly go to Palestine to help people, sponsored by the Palestine-Bethlehem Foundation 2000.
The foundation does some noble work such as providing medical, social, and educational aid.
The reason the translation is so good is because someone else did it.
At (1:42) Diego Villegas admits he is part Palestinian
However, on their website’s geography page, they refuse to acknowledge Israel at all. They give the area of Palestine as 26,323 km², which pretty much rules out any area left for Israel.
Though Christian, Palestinian-Chileans have become radicalized, and they have come under suspicion as this report shows.
http://www.themedialine.org/news/print_news_detail.asp?NewsID=5739
… 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. According to the source, many of the fund’s activists are themselves members of another terror group – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The CIA said that it has information concerning the trail of money from the foundation to Hamas, but declined to provide specifics.
However, it must be remembered that a lot of rumors and even lies float about concerning matters in the Mideast. Israel is not above putting out rumors to discredit its opponents. Of course, neither are the Arabs.
The Palestine-Bethlehem Foundation 2000 does a lot of good work. Whether or not they assist terror groups as well is another matter.