Latin America Summit on Israel highlights duplicitous stance in the region
Ramona Wadi
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Besides providing a safe haven for thousands of Cuban dissidents, as well as counter revolutionaries who attempted to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro, Miami is currently hosting the Latin America Summit on Israel organised by the Israel Allies Foundation.
The press release publicising the conference is a regurgitation of the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past few years – the necessity of drawing closer to Latin America as a region that has "many shared values and interests" to Israel. Furthering diplomatic relations between the two regions would "provide opportunities to expand trade and investment and build broader diplomatic support for Israel I international forums."
Fortunately, not the entire region is willing to entertain such notions. Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro has proved itself time and again in favour of internationalist support for Palestine. Cuba has, historically, also aided the Palestinian revolutionary struggle and was the only country in the region that opposed the UN Partition Plan in 1947. Many countries have declared at least diplomatic support for Palestine.
However, the danger lies in the manipulation of what should constitute Palestine, as well as how the asserted support of these Latin American countries is diluted through continued reliance on Israel with regard to surveillance. In this context, countries such as Chile are providing Israel with further incentives to strengthen its colonial violence, whose tactics and techniques are then exported and used by other oppressive governments against resistance movements and indigenous communities.
in full: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/politics/18327-latin-america-summit-on-israel-highlights-duplicitous-stance-in-the-region