This is a video that I translated in 2013.
The is the UGEP (General Union of Palestinian Students) in Chile.
The Palestinians are elites in Chile, and they are swinging the policies of an up and coming Chile. Chile is now first world, and the rising star of Latin America.
FREE PALESTINE
Building a bridge of dialogue
in place of a Separational Wall.
The General Union of Palestinians Students (UGEP in Spanish) is not a small force to be ignored.
Yasser Arafat came out the Mideastern Branch of the Palestinian Student Union.
As you can see by that map on the poster, above, The UGEP does not recognize Israel at all. As far as the UGEP is concerned, all of Israel is Palestine.
The video above portrays idealistic Chilean Youth. No doubt, many are. What the video does not show is that the UGEP advocates the destruction of Israel. The poster’s words advocate dialogue. The poster’s map advocate destruction.
The UGEP, even in Chile where almost all Palestinians are Christian, advocates a very hard party line.
It may not look as severe because the women are Christians, and not burqa clad women with their roiling tongue curdling screams; but in the end, they advocate no less that their Muslim cousins.
Note: My own view is nuanced: Historically, the Jew have the best claim to Israel for many reasons. I do not see Jews as invaders to their own patrimony in the Mideast. The Jews do have a claim to the land.
But, sadly, neither can I deny that the Israelis ethnically cleansed the Palestinians in 1948 and 1967, nor that Palestinians were and are mistreated. No nation is perfect. We Americans were not perfect. Chile – the nation these youth live in how – was guilty of ethnically cleansing its Mapuche and Quechua Indians. No nation is perfect.
Innocent people were hurt in 1948; and yes, that includes innocent Arabs.
Unlike these youth, I do NOT think the destruction of Israel as a homeland for the Jews is the answer. That would be insane. Destroying or re-defining the Jewishness out of Israel is not the answer to the problem.
Israel has a right to be the homeland for the Jewish people.
There is too much hurt, too much history, and too much blood, for the Jews to surrender their state.
Sadly, there is too much hurt, too much history, and too much blood, for the Palestinians to forget.
Islam is too radicalized for the Israeli Jews to trust their fate to a one-state solution, which allows for the Palestinians to return; and which restores an angry Islamic majority to the land. Israeli Jews will never do it. Nor should they be asked to dissolve their state.
THE BEST SOLUTION!
I think the best solution is to pay the Palestinians to leave for the West, preferably South America, which has history of assimilating the Arabs well.
Pay them well … about $100,000 per Palestinian.
This may not be a totally just solution, but it is the least destructive. I know it is awful to ask the Palestinians to surrender their claims to the land; but the only alternative is nuclear war – a nuclear war where they would be targeted.
I know some will say: It is not right to write the Palestinians out of history. You are right!
Indeed it is wrong to write the Palestinians out of history.
It would be FAR MORE WRONG to write Israel out of history.
Ultimately – as cruel as it may sound – this cold logic applies: If there are 22 Arab states, it would be wrong to dismantle the only Jewish state to correct the injustice and to restore another Arab state.
It is wrong to deny the Palestinians a right to return, but it is MORE WRONG to dismantle Israel as the homeland for the Jews.
There is no completely just solution here … only a less destructive one.
Denying Israel is NOT the answer.
The Jewish right to Israel and Jerusalem is solid.
I am not saying Palestinians were not hurt; but the destruction of Israel is NOT the answer.
Finally, there is a spiritual side to this.
On the spiritual side, Israel is totally right. There may be some political wrongs, but in the end, Israel has the better claim.
November 15, 2023: Edited: Made more mobile friendly.
June 12, 2024: Edited: Removed a dead video. Changed text.