Argentina

Argentina is a very large country on the southeast of South America, running from the polar south to the tropical north. The population is very European in ancestry, with roughly half being pure-European in background, and another large section being mostly European in background.

It has a large Arab population (9±%), but which is intermarried and assimilated into the country’s larger demographic This is because it is heavily Maronite (Catholic) Lebanese who assimilate well.

Interestingly, Argentina has around 180,000 Jews – the seventh largest Jewish population in the world – and they can be politically active.

Brazilian Evangelical Support Israel During Crisis

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Brazilian Evangelical Support Israel During Crisis

Source: Fohla de S.Paulo – English Edition – October 9, 2023

Why Do So Many Evangelicals in Brazil Support Israel in the New Conflict?

This new stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revived the popularity of Zionism within this religious segment

The eruption of a new conflict in Israel has flooded evangelical social media with the white and blue flag bearing the Star of David in its center. This new stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revived the popularity of Zionism within this religious segment, even prompting expressions of support from this religious bloc in Congress.

Brazil is one of those countries where a very large Evangelical constituency can override Arab sympathies in the political realm. The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was very pro-Israel. The current president is not so.


Rio De Janiero protest in support of Israel
Posted on YouTube: October 15, 2023


Pro-Israel supporters from another view.
Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2023

Almost one-third of Brazil is now Evangelical Christian (31%) – who tend to support Zionism – and the government, even though it is leftist, has to respect their political power.


Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2023

One can see the enormous numbers of people who support Israel. Yet, there are not a lot of Jews in Brazil, relatively speaking. Roughly 110,000 which is one-twentieth of one percent (0.05%) of the population.

So where is this support coming from: The Evangelicals.

Yes, there is pro-Palestinian support (see video below) but it will be drowned out.

Remember that the Arabs in Brazil are, in the vast majority, Christian, and some of those would be Evangelical or, at the least, moderate Maronites. So even though Brazil has roughly 15 million Arabs, the Evangelicals will win.


News report on pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel supporters.
Posted on YouTube: October 11, 2023

The Evangelical Christians are making demographic gains daily. While there will be pro-Palestinian support in Brazil, in the end, the politics will sway to Israel. The Evangelicals are powerful — powerful enough that the leftist president Lula da Silva has had to moderate his position.

Added October 24 (below):

Not just the Evangelicals in Brazil. Apparently, there was a massive street protest in favor of Israel in Buenos Aires. Argentina has a massive amount of influential Jews — circa 180,000.

Expect Brazil, with its large Evangelical base, and Argentina – with a large Jewish community – to be more muted or balanced in taking sides in this war, unlike Chile or Honduras where Palestinians are large, elite, and powerful.

The video below was posted on October 16 which leads me to believe that this protest and the Brazilian demonstrations were coordinated to occur around the same time, across Brazil and Argentina, as a large scale show of political power.

Argentina, the Other Outlier with Lots of Jews

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Argentina, the Other Outlier with Lots of Jews

Note: image was ai-generated.

Argentina still has a lot of Jews; the sixth largest community of Jews outside of Israel. Unlike Chile, where Palestinians are influential, the Jews of Argentina still pack a wallop.

Source: Jewish organisations in Argentina stage march in support of Israel
Buenos Aires Times
October 9, 2023

Hundreds of people took part in a march in Buenos Aires on Monday in support of Israel following the deadly terror attacks carried out by the Islamist group Hamas in the Middle East.

Headed by the country’s leading Jewish organisations, the march in Almagro was a chance for porteños [Buenos Aires citizens] to show solidarity with Israel.

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The pro-Israel rally took place on a symbolic corner of the capital’s Almagro neighbourhood, where the Estado de Israel and Estado de Palestina streets intersect. The national anthems of both Israel and Argentina were played during the event, while demonstrators waved Israeli flags.

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“The only solution is for the Gaza Strip, which originally belonged to the Jewish people, to be vacated,” Rafael Yablonosky, a 60-year-old doctor, said as he rallied.

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Mr. Yablonosky’s comment is interesting, as he does not say where the Gazans should go.

But, historically, Argentina has been somewhat friendly to Jews.

What about Juan Peron and the Nazis?

Juan Peron was NOT a Nazi. He considered Italian Fascist economics as interesting, but that was economics. He did not purchase into Germany’s racial theories. One of Peron’s advisors was Jewish.

Argentina had a problem with leftists, and at that time in history, many Jews were leftist. Conservative Jews were usually left alone. There were issues during the period of the junta (1976-83), but the junta went after every suspected leftist, Jew or Gentile.

Jews have had a major role in Argetina’s history. They contributed a lot to the evolution of tango music.

The Jewish population in Argentina is large, because, for the most part, Argentina was welcoming to Jews.


Posted on YouTube: October 10, 2023


Argentina Had the First Jewish City in the World
Posted on YouTube: 2022

True! Check out video about Moisés Ville (above).

In fact, Theodore Herzl and Baron Maurice de Hirsch even considered purchasing a province in Argentina to create the Jewish state. The rabbis shot that idea down.

For them, it was the Holy Land or Nothing.

November 23, 2024 – Edited: Had to resource the blockquote, and make corrections.

Explaining South American Attitudes Towards the Mideast

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Explaining South American Attitudes Towards the Mideast

One has to remember that Latin/South America has a massive and prosperous Arab demographic, and this can affect Latin America views of the wars in the Mideast.

However, the Arab demographic is not necessarily monolithic.

First: Almost all of the Arabs in Latin/America are Christian. And they do not identify with the Islamic aspect of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

This distance derives from the Mideast history of their Arab ancestors, where there were instances of anti-Christian massacres such as in 1860, which drove many Christians out of Lebanon and Syria, to Latin America.

Source: Diatribe – The forgotten genocide

The slaughter of the Catholic Maronite Christians caused France, recalling its ancient role as protector of Christians in the Ottoman Empire which was established by treaty in 1523 to intervene [in 1860], landing troops in Lebanon to protect the Maronites.

Another source of Christian-Arab flight to Latin America was due to a fear that the Ottoman Empire would draft Christian men and put them in the front ranks of the battle as cannon fodder. So a lot of Christian families left to protect their sons.

Given these historical Muslim-Christian hostilities, when South American Arabs (who would be Christian) support the Palestinian cause, they probably would support the secular Fatah over the Islamic Hamas. They would avoid Islamic sympathies.

The only possible exception to this are the Palestinians in Latin America. (Click Here) to see some Palestinian-Chileans (who would be Christian) support the Intifada. Palestinian Christians in Latin America can be insane in their animus towards Israel. It makes no sense.

Second: It was easier for Christian Arabs to move to the West and assimilate in Latin America than for Muslims. There were links between the West and the Christians in the Holy Land. Such links could provide needed help. No such connections existed for Muslims who were on their own.

Third: Those relatively few Muslims who did immigrate to Latin America often converted to Catholicism or intermarried with local Christians in Latin America. The kids ended up being raised Christian, usually Catholic.

Fourth: Maronite Christians (affiliated with Catholicism), which form a large part of the Arab demographic in Latin America, have been historically hostile to Islam. As already noted above, on more than one occasion, Muslims tried to genocide the Maronite Christians in Lebanon. So there is no love lost between Maronites and Muslims.

Maronites tend to assimilate very well in Latin America, as they consider themselves to be a Western people. They rise to the top of society very fast. They are often neutral in Arab-Israeli struggles, and some of them can be pro-Israel.

Indeed, some of the Maronites see themselves as Phoenicians, not Arabs at all.

At the very least, the Maronites of Latin America have a moderating effect on the opinions of other Arab groups in Latin America.

Fifth: Syrian Arabs in Latin America (usually Eastern Christians) have other concerns, especially after the Syrian Civil War, when the remaining Christians in Syria came under threat of genocide.

Sixth: It is the Palestinian Latins (who are almost always Christian) who are a matter of concern. The Palestinian-Christians of Chile (Chilestinos) being an example.

Chile has the largest community of Palestinians outside the Mideast. However, the are NOT representative of Palestinians as a whole, since Chile’s Palestinians (Palestinos / Chilestinos) are taken, almost exclusively, from the Christian element.

The Palestinian Latins are noticeable in Honduras, El Salvador, and Chile.

Source: Police in Chile guard Jews after anti-Semitic attacks – JPOST

The Palestinian community is to Chile what the Jewish community is to the U.S.

– Gabriel Zalisnek, then president of Chile’s Jewish Federation

Palestinian Christians in Chile tend to be very intelligent, influential, hard working, and rich. But all their virtues disappear when it comes to the issue of Israel. They have a blind spot in that area. They have major outsize influence in Chile which, being a first world country now, has a major influence on Latin America.

Hostility from a poor country would not carry much weight, but from Chile, it can be worrisome. Some Jewish organizations have expressed grave concerns over the Palestinian-Christians in Chile, and their influence on government policy.


Posted on YouTube: July 9, 2020

The Palestinian-Latins and the Leftist governments in Latin America (such as Venezuela) are the issue, but overall the Arab-Latin Americans are not monolithic at all. There is some cause for concern, but not too much to worry about.

The issue is really Islam, and unfortunately, the penetration of Iranian influence, especially through HispanTV, a joint venture of Iran and Leftist Venezuela.

While Arab-Latin Americans may not be thrilled with Israel, some of them remember what the Muslims did to their ancestors — except for the Palestinian Latins (who are, ironically, mostly Christian). As noted, the Palestinian-Chileans are insanely anti-Israel and they have real clout in Chile.

The group holding back the flood of anti-Israel sentiment, however, are very pro-Israel Evangelical Christians in Latin America.


Posted on YouTube: 2023

Chile & Latin America During This Crisis

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Chile & Latin America During This Crisis


Posted on YouTube: October 9, 2023

Chile has a large Palestinian community — which will assert its own view — during this war. However, even the Chilean government, which is often anti-Israeli in its official positions, has rebuked the Hamas attack on civilians in Israel this October. It was a strong condemnation.

Indeed, because of Hamas’ brutality, most official authorities are supporting Israel in this crisis.

Source: Arab News – October 9, 2023

SAO PAULO: Living in countries whose presidents have expressed pro-Palestinian views, Palestinian communities in Chile, Brazil and Argentina have expressed disappointment with statements issued by these countries’ governments concerning the fighting between Hamas and Israel.

Most Latin American nations released statements condemning Saturday’s attack on Israel by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.

The exceptions were Venezuela, which demanded that Israel immediately halt the occupation of Palestinian territories, and Bolivia, which said it is following developments with concern and accused the UN of inaction.

In Colombia, the Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning violence against civilians and asking both parties to hold dialogue on a two-state solution.

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Palestinian-born Nicola Hadwa, a prominent Middle East analyst, told Arab News that Palestinians in Chile feel “betrayed,” adding: “That kind of declaration comes from political leaders who are subordinated to the US and Israel.”

Hadwa, who also worked as a football manager and was the first professional coach of the Palestinian national team in 2002, said: “Every day, the Israelis kill two or three young Palestinians and nobody talks about it in the media. When Palestine reacts, suddenly everybody is concerned.”

Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s administration seems to be coming under pressure from both sides.

However, with a large demographic of Arabs in South America – even if most are Christian – there is some small degree of sympathy for the Palestinian side, particularly among the demographic of Palestinians in Latin America.

Thankfully, this time, the governments are acting rationally in spite of this pressure from pro-Palestinians.

Remember, the Arab demographic in Latin America may be large, but it is NOT monolithic.

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