This is the first of the discoveries about the ‘4 Colores’ project, inside the historical research about Club Deportivo Palestino.
One of them was to find the original statutes of the team, from 1916 (our regards to Rachel Beaty for getting the document from the National Library of Chile and taking the pictures), before the football branch was founded.
It was originally founded under the name ‘Club Sportivo Palestina’, as can be seen in the picture below
Also it can be seen the language used in those years to refer to what we usually call ‘sport’ (‘deporte’ in spanish). In the major article it can be noticed that the team was founded ‘in order to encourage the development of physical forces’.
Also the team develops all sport´s disciplines and members only could be between 12 and 40 years old.
These statutes are such as any sport team, but the interesting part is located on the last page, which contains part of the signatory members:
Members who signed the founding charter “Club Sportivo Palestina” from 1916 |
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1. Salomón Ahues Abukalil 25. Selim Ahues Salah 2. Stefano Costandil Riadi 3. Antonio Reade 6. Juan Riadi 10. Jorge Riadi 11. Pacífico Riadi 56. Juan J Riadi 4. Jorge Halabi 47. Jorge Juan Halabi 52. Plácido Halabi 63. Bichara Halabi 9. Alejandro Afane 16. Abraham Atala 22. Enrique Awad 51. Anis Awad 64. Abraham Abdelmur 18. Antonio Balut 20. Salvador Bandek 12. Miguel Carcur 26. Benedicto Chuaqui 41. Alegria J. Catan 33. Habib David 38. Felipe Dable 55. Juan Deik 35. Isaac Giadala |
42. Abdo J. Jesam 57. Elias Jacir 36. Germán Krauss 24. Benito Larech 69. Elías Lama 17. Luis A. Montero 29. Salomón Mussiet 54. Constantino Manzur 66. Filomeno Morales 59. Elías Obaid 65. José Odé 58. Nicolás Rabie 49. Nicolás Saffie 5. Nuncio Saffie 50. Miguel Saffie 15. Pedro Schain 32. Jorge A. Samandar 34. Jorge Sabaj 43. Nuncio Salah 60. Abed Salamé 67. Andrés Saba 48. Jorge Tacla 19. Antonio Valech 23. Tomás Zurob 46. Elías Zurob 68. Jorge T. Zaglul |
We want to make a special call to the supporters who are descendants of those founders, in case they can give us more information about the team, pictures or testimony about the amateur ages (from 1916 to 1951).
It is important to say that Club Deportivo Palestino was the first palestinian institution in Chile, which paved the way for the integration of migrants and palestinian descendants. This is a clear evidence, confirming that there was palestinian people in the area, dismissing the zionist and Israeli speech that says that zionist settlers came to an uninhabited land, and spreading phrases such as ‘a land without people for a people a land. If it were not so, or if the first immigrants had not been their origin so clear, had founded an arab club, ottoman or related to another group, however they defined themselves as palestinians.
The founding of this institution was also made even before the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when Britain, without any attribution or legal legality promised a ‘Jewish national home’ for zionists in Palestine.
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https://www.facebook.com/4colorespalestina/posts/648588811930062
2015-01-20