Why Latin American turned

Caroline B. Glick
jewishworldreview.com
10 December '10

Israelis can be excused for wondering what happened that Brazil and Argentina unexpectedly announced they recognize an independent Palestinian state with its capital city in Israel's capital city. Israelis can be forgiven for being taken by surprise by their move and by the prospect that Uruguay, and perhaps Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Salvador will be following in their footsteps because the Israeli media have failed to report on developing trends in Latin America.

And this is not surprising. The media fails to report on trends anywhere. When the Turkish government sent Hamas supporters to challenge the IDF's maritime blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza coastline, the media were surprised that Israel's ally Turkey had suddenly become Hamas's ally and Israel's enemy. Their failure to report on Turkey's gradual transformation into an Islamic supremacist state caused the media to treat what was a culmination of a trend as a shocking new development. The same is now happening with Latin America.

Whereas in Turkey, the media failed only to report on the significance of the singular trend of Islamization of Turkish society, the media has consistently ignored the importance for Israel of three trends that made Latin America's embrace of the Palestinians against Israel a predictable conclusion.

Those trends are the rise of Hugo Chavez, the influence of the Venezuela-Iran alliance, and the cravenness of US foreign policy towards Latin America and the Middle East. When viewed as a whole they explain why Latin America is lining up to support the Palestinians. They tell us something about how Israel should be acting to advance its interests regarding Iran and the Palestinians moving forward.

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