Boliva: Fails in attempt at UN in which regain land it lost in a war it started.

(La Paz)  On March 1st 1879 Bolivia declared war on Chile and in doing so demanded Peru honour its secret agreement to come to Bolivars aid in case of war with Chile. 4 years later Chile came out victorious and took as collateral land it had captured from both Peru and Bolivia. The problem for Bolivar was it lost all access to the sea. In 104 a peace treaty was signed between Chile and Bolivia with the Chileans agreeing to build a railway line from the coast to Bolivia allowing them access to the sea. The thing is whilst Chile has kept the railway line in good order and operational at their end. Boliva has allowed its rail system to deteriorate. so much so, that passenger trains no longer run in Bolivia and instead buses (Yes buses) have been converted to run on the lines and that was the way things stood until vast supplies of Lithium (As used by the high tech industry) were found in the country.

Naturally the Bolivians want to cash in on the market , but instead of rebuilding the rail way system across the country. It instead  decided to play the victim card claiming that Chile was a nasty country and that the moral thing would be for it to return all the lands it lost in a war it started.  naturally as this is a socialist country , lots of abuse was thrown at Chile  such as calling them the Israelis of South America, and they took their case to the UN and then spent a lot of time promoting their righteous cause. Well yesterday the UNs International court of justice arrived at its decision and decided agaisnt Boliva. Stating that a string of agreements, memorandums and statements produced over decades of talks had not created a legal obligation on Chile to enter negotiations. In a sweeping rejection of the Bolivian case, the court, by a 12-3 majority, dismissed eight different legal arguments presented by Bolivia’s lawyers.

You can guess that , that didn't go down well in La Paz with Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales opining to the media:

“Bolivia will never give up” its claim. The people of the world know that Bolivia had an invasion and we had our sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean taken away from us,”

Poor Evo, it appears he still won’t accept that it was Bolivia and not Chile which started the war which saw it lose so much land. I wonder why he isn't asking for the rest of the territory Bolivia has lost

Israeli envoy to Chile says local Palestinians threaten Jews with violence

(JPost) Israel's top diplomat in Chile is accusing the local Palestinian community of trying to muzzle hasbara efforts by making threats of physical violence against Jews.

Tensions between the Jewish and Arab communities of Chile are on the rise Thursday after the organization representing Palestinian expats officially demanded that the government declare Israel's ambassador to Santiago persona non grata.

The Federacion Palestina de Chile submitted a request to the Chilean Foreign Ministry demanding that Rafi Eldad, Jerusalem's ambassador to Santiago, be officially shunned by the government.

Local Palestinians said that Eldad's accusations of incitement to violence were "slanderous" and that they hindered their ability "to defend the Palestinian people."

Chile is home to the largest community of transplanted Palestinians whose population is estimated at 300,000 people. In recent years, relations between local Palestinians and Jews have become fraught, particularly during times of crisis.

Israeli embassy officials in Santiago said that any pro-Israel event in the country is disrupted by Palestinians. Diplomats said that there has been an increase in the number of anti-Semitic incident as well as an escalation in anti-Israel rhetoric and incitement.

"We completely reject the recent claims made by Ambassador Eldad, who said that our federation has been systematically sowing dissension and inciting to hatred between the Palestinian and Jewish communities," the federation wrote in a letter sent to the Foreign Ministry. "This is a well-known tactic aimed at deflecting any criticism of Israel and its murderous policies."

Israeli officials reject the Palestinian efforts to have Eldad shunned by the government as illegal.

"We are suffering from a great deal of tension here as events in the Middle East intensify," Eldad told The Jerusalem Post's Hebrew-language sister publication Ma'ariv. "The Palestinians are trying to disrupt any event that we put on here. They incite on web sites and social media, and I'm certainly fearful that this tension could escalate to physical violence."

"I see their complaint about me as a badge of honor, and a sign that our hasbara is yielding fruit. We are in a constant struggle for hearts and minds."