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The daughter of Victoria Larach (73) was born in Beit Jala, Palestine..'In 1962 I got married in Palestine and left the same year for Palestine. I used to be a teacher at an UNWRA (UN agency for Palestinian refugees). My mother was from Nazareth, my father from Beit JalaI thought going to Honduras was an adventure, in 1963 we organized the first Orthodox masses at home. My husband had a factory for uniforms and jeans. I have two sons and one daughter, they are all in Houston. Otherwise I have family in Chile, USA, Central America and Palestine..I went back to Palestine for the first time in 1972 and for the last time in 2008. I don't believe there will be a Palestinian state, I sincerely hope it, but I feel sorry and sad that this happened to the Palestinians. Before 1948 life was good in Palestine..Now I am the chef de cuisine of the Arab restaurant at the Arab club...It was as early as the late 1800's that the first Palestinians arrived in Honduras. It was the time of the Ottoman empire and many Christian Palestinians felt the pressure that they had to convert to Islam and enlist in the Turkish army. Many took the boat with destination ‘the Americas' and honduras turned out to be the final destination. When the state of Israel was created in 1948 many followed. With many more in 1967 (six day war, occupation of Gaza, Westbank and the Golan heights) and during and after the two Intifadah's..Nowadays its estimated that there are around 200,000 people of Palestinian decent in Honduras, making it probably the biggest Palestinian community in the Western hemisphere. They have been very successful on both an economic and a political level. Almost all are Christians and from the Bethlehem area. . (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen)