["We cannot forget a community that is suffering from an illegal
occupation, a community that is resisting, a community that is seeing
its rights and dignity violated every day," Chiles leftist president
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BORIC SAYS CHILE WILL OPEN EMBASSY IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE
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Brett Wilkins
December 27, 2022
Common Dreams
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_ "We cannot forget a community that is suffering from an illegal
occupation, a community that is resisting, a community that is seeing
its rights and dignity violated every day," Chile's leftist president
said. _
A member of Chile's Palestinian community wears a t-shirt that reads
"Gaza resists, Palestina exists" during a demonstration outside La
Moneda palace in Santiago on September 30, 2022, Martin Bernetti/AFP
via Getty Images
Palestinian officials and supporters welcomed leftist Chilean
President Gabriel Boric's announcement this week that his country will
open an embassy in the West Bank, which has been illegally occupied by
Israeli apartheid forces for 55 years.
"We are going to raise our official representation in Palestine from
having a charge d'affaires," Boric said
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at a Wednesday evening Christmas tree-lighting ceremony with
Palestinian Christians.
"It always makes me very angry to look at the Middle East and not see
Palestine on the map."
"Now we are going to open an embassy of our government to give it the
corresponding representation, to demand in all spaces something so
basic, so simple that today is not being done, which is that
international law is respected," the president added. "Nothing more
and nothing less."
"It always makes me very angry to look at the Middle East and not see
Palestine on the map," Boric said.
As incoming right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joins
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the long line of Israeli leaders
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and their boosters
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who deny the existence of the Palestinian people, Boric asserted that
Palestine "exists [and] resists."
"We cannot forget a community that is suffering from an illegal
occupation, a community that is resisting, a community that is seeing
its rights and dignity violated every day," he said.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs applauded
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Boric's plan, saying in a statement that it "affirms the principled
position of Chile and its president in support of international law
and the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent
state."
Chile has been officially represented by an office in the Palestinian
Authority since 1998. In 2011 the Chilean government recognized
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Palestine as a "free, independent, and sovereign state" and backed its
entry into UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization.
Palestine, meanwhile, has an embassy in Santiago, the Chilean capital.
Palestine has established bilateral ties with nearly 140 nations.
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Relations between Chile and Israel have been strained. In September,
Boric delayed
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acceptance of the new Israeli ambassador's credentials after Israeli
occupation forces fatally shot
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Odai Trad Salah in the head during a raid outside Jenin.
Chile boasts the largest Palestinian community outside of the Middle
East. Its 300,000 members live peacefully
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Chile's 30,000 Jews.
Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel
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Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
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