The Zionist Claw in South America

by Guillermo Alvarado

Not many people know that at the end of the 19th century, when the Zionist movement founded by Theodor Herzl was considering locations for the future State of Israel, Argentina was one of the proposed sites.

Herzl himself wrote a chapter entitled "Palestine or Argentina" in his 1896 book The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), referring to Argentina as "one of the most fertile countries on earth, with an immense surface area, sparse population, and temperate climate."

Herzl was not alone in this idea. Leon Pinsker, another father of Zionism, and Maurice de Hirsch, a promoter of Jewish colonies in America, also supported it.

In fact, there was a significant Jewish migration to Patagonia at that time, from Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, both to the Chilean and Argentinean sides.

The idea reportedly failed due to opposition from the Orthodox sector, who argued that a state of Israel could not exist without Jerusalem, a view also supported by the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

The text written by the British Foreign Secretary at the time is considered the first official support of the Zionist movement. One of its paragraphs reads as follows:

"His Majesty's government views with favor the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine and will make every effort to facilitate the realization of this objective."

With characteristic British astuteness, the aristocrat wrote "national home" instead of "state," and he addressed the note not to the bloc of Jewish MPs in Parliament but to the powerful Jewish banker Lionel Walter Rothschild, who forwarded it to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

By that time, World War I had ended, the Ottoman Empire had been defeated, and Great Britain was administering the Middle East protectorate. Britain felt entitled to grant the Zionist movement land that already had owners.

The propagandistic handling of the Holocaust during World War II did the rest and laid the snake's egg that is currently exterminating the Palestinian population amid an unbearable silence.

However, this is not the end of the story. The Zionist claw is closing with force on South American territory right now. This is happening not only through human settlements but also through military presence. This will be the subject of my next work. Until then.