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Readers with good memories will recall the appointment of Jorge Palacios, a disgraced former Federal Police officer to head the city of Buenos Aires’s first autonomous police force. To put it mildly, it wasn’t an idea that prospered. Palacios was obliged to resign when indicted on charges of being involved in the cover up of the AMIA massacre and is now in prison while being investigated on charges of organizing illegal wiretaps. Among those who had their phone conversations illicitly listened in on was Sergio Burstein, a well known campaigner for justice for the families of the survivors of the AMIA attack.

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Horacio Verbitsky is a prominent Argentine journalist and impassioned supporter of the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He’s also the president of CELS, a prominent human rights NGO. In this interview he attributes the appointment to the influence of the DEA, the American Embassy and, wait for it, the Embassy of Israel. Here are the key quotes:

When he [Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri] explains why he appointed him [Palacios] he says he asked the DEA, the American Embassy and the Israeli Embassy for a candidate.

When he [Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri] created the Metropolitan Police he went to the DEA and Embassy of Israel to look for a boss for it.

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So now you know, the mayor of one of the largest cities in South America was looking for a chief for a new police force and one of the places he went looking for a good candidate was the Israeli Embassy. And the Israelis, in their infinite cunning, suggested someone who was then on the point being indicted for covering up the massacre of a large number of Jews and has since been charged with tapping the phone of Sergio Burstein, a Jew who has publicly pointed his finger at Iran and its local lackeys with regard to AMIA massacre.

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And no, there’s not a hint of antisemitism in this. There can’t be because Verbitsky himself is Jewish and, therefore, nothing he says can be so construed.