Chile

Chile is the country on the Southwest Pacific coast of South America, which runs from a polar south to tropical north. 5% of Chile’s population is Arab, and the majority of that is Palestinian-Christian: Chilestino/Chilestinian.

Chile is a first world country now, very democratic. The Chilestinos are prosperous and wield incredible political power.

What We Do Not See In The United States

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Posted on YouTube: October 14, 2019
(obviously concerning Christmas)
The Closing Line says: THIS CHRISTMAS WE DO NOT FORGET THE CHILDREN OF BETHLEHEM

Note: the opening seconds of the video look like they were taken from the destruction in Syria, not Bethlehem. If so, the pro-Palestinian video is grossly dishonest.

The two videos on this post come from the Federación Palestina de Chile, which is extraordinarily anti-Israel. Take that into account.

I am not saying our American media lies about the Mideast. From what I have noticed, it could be argued that much of the rest of the world gets a slanted view – slanted to the opposite side of what we see in the USA.

HOWEVER, most Americans do not know what the rest of the world sees, particularly in Latin America. I offer these videos on this website as an example.

In Chile and Honduras – where Palestinians are the most influential Arabic communities – the hostility to Israel is palpable, with political clout. In those countries where the Maronite (Lebanese) Christians are the most influential Arab community, the sentiment is muted.

What is amazing is that almost all of these Palestinian-Latin-Americans hold an idealized, fantasy version of how wonderful Palestine was to their ancestors when the Arabs ruled. Were that so, their ancestors would not have fled to Latin America – and fled they did.

The Muslims treated Christians like dhimmis, and often went on genocidal campaigns against Christians.

But this is what fuels much of the public opinion in Latin America, an idealized, fantasy memory of Palestine.

For example, this video supports BDS against Israel. It opens with the line: SUPPORT FOR BDS IS GROWING IN THE WORLD.


Posted on YouTube: January 2, 2018

I am not asking you to agree with these anti-Israel views. I do not.

But you should be aware of them. It is a whole other world out there in Latin America.

Chile Lit A Skyscraper With Keffiyeh

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From earlier in July:

And from the Middle East Monitor, which is NOT exactly unbiased.

Essentially, a major skyscraper, Chile’s Telephone Tower, was lit up with a Palestinian keffiyeh … to support the Palestinians against Israel’s annexation plans.

Chile has a large – and elite – Palestinian population. This could not happen in the United States.

This is the power of the Palestinian community in Chile.

Source: Middle East Monitor
July 5, 2020

As Israel moves closer to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, solidarity in the Global South has been gaining momentum. On 2 July Chile’s Telephone Tower was lighted with the Palestinian kufiyeh in support of the Palestinian people and rejection of the annexation plan. Chile, the country with the largest population of Palestinians in Latin America, directed their gesture of support to the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories.

Chile was not alone in its solidarity efforts; representatives from most Latin American countries signed a joint statement against Israel’s annexation plan. The document was released on 2 July by more than 320 public figures. Among them, former presidents, parliamentarians, ministers, academics and artists. They called upon the international community to impose effective counter measures against Israel, including targeted sanctions, ending trade ties and legal action.

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An Interesting Passport from Chile

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This is an embedded tweet from Twitter which shows an old passport of a Palestinian-Chilean. It lists that the bearer was born in Beit Jala in 1890, in the province of Jerusalem, and arrived in Chile in 1906 – when he was 16. He probably came over with his parents and siblings.

Arabs started immigrating to Chile around 1890, and this is proof of that early migration.

What is interesting is that the passport lists the place where he was born as Palestine, and lists Palestinian as a nationality.

The twitter account claims that the passport was the possession of his grandfather Clarito. I have to suspect that the passport is of his great-grandfather if it goes that far back.

The Tweet says (CI. From my grandfather, Clarito leaves where he was born in 1890, and they say that PALESTINE did not exist.)[ translated by a Google app].

The tweeter uses the passport to defend that Palestine was an identity, even at that early date.

I support Israel’s right to exist, but I do not deny that Palestinians have an identity, though some Zionists deny this. I know what the tweeter means. And, as noted, I have no problem using the term Palestinian.

However, the Palestinians who went to Chile were often Christian. They would have had no problem calling themselves Palestinians. Muslims operate under a different worldview, and see a problem with nation-states. They prefer the idea of an Ummah (Muslim homeland).

Nor is the date – that the passport was issued – noted. The passport may have been issued much, much later in the bearer’s lifetime.

There Is Nothing Like This In America

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There Is Nothing Like This In America


Posted on YouTube: July 9, 2020

No politician in the United States could get away with the anti-Israel rhetoric which is common in Chile. This video from the World Jewish Congress shows you how strongly anti-Israel the politics are in Chile.

This is what happens when one of Chile’s wealthiest elite groups is Palestinian Chilean. In Chile, the Jews are outnumbers 30 to 1 by Palestinian Christians.

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