Posted on YouTube: 2022
There are more Lebanese in Brazil than Lebanon.
The video (above) lists the reasons for the massive immigration to Lebanon as economic and political instability.
What the video does not explain is that the instability was caused by the ongoing Islamic attempts at genocides of the Christians — which have been periodically happening for centuries in Lebanon and Syria.
Hence the vast majority of these Arab immigrants were Christians fleeing Muslim persecution which, at times, rose to genocidal levels.
However, the video (above) does get correct how massive and influential the Lebanese are in Brazil.
The video estimates 12 million Lebanese in Brazil, which is roughly in accord with my own estimates. However, I estimated 12-15 million for all Arabs, while this video estimates 12 million for the Lebanese alone in Brazil.
Add in the Syrian-Lebanese and you can see how massive the Arabs are in Brazil … and they are prosperous.
My estimates of Arabs in Brazil might even be low.
Again, almost all the Lebanese in Brazil are Christians.
Posted on YouTube: 2023
This is from an Israeli channel, but the facts are there.
The upshot of this is that Lebanese Christians in Latin America usually do not subscribe to the raw hatred of Israel which is more common among Palestinian-Christian-Chileans (or Hondurans).
The Lebanese-Christian-Brazilians remember the brutality of the Muslims. Their views on Israel vary from friendly to not thrilled, but they have no illusions about Islam.
Hence, wherever the Lebanese Arabs predominate among Arab-Latins — and they predominate in many Latin countries – they then to moderate the discussion.