I wrote here about the appointment of Héctor Timerman, and here I critiqued his fawning attitude to the Iranian regime. His evident anxiety to show that the fact that he is Jewish isn’t going to have a bearing on policy decisions isn’t impressing many people. La Nación, Argentina’s leading quality daily newspaper has had to close its comments section under two stories about Timerman’s appointment in the last two days because of the wave of antisemitic filth that was being submitted to them.
Héctor Timerman, Argentina’s new foreign minister, gives a two-page interview to Pagina/12 today in which he says the following with regard to Argentina’s attempts to have a number of Iranians extradited to answer charges of having been responsible for the AMIA massacre,
As of yesterday, Argentina has a new foreign minister. His name is Héctor Timerman and he takes up his new job after having been been Argentina’s ambassador in Washington since 2008. The relevance of his appointment for readers outside Argentina resides in its possible consequences for the AMIA case.
Continue reading ‘Timerman: Argentina’s New Foreign Minister’
Most readers of this blog will not have heard of him but Charly García is an Argentine rock musician of unrivalled talent and artistic integrity. He’s been a giant on the nation’s cultural scene for more than three decades and he travelled to Israel to play two concerts this week. Never a man weighed down by brute notions of political correctness his visit represents another raised middle finger to the boycotters.
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AIPAC has “… for years molded the policies of the government of the United States in the Middle East, for example, the invasion of Iraq.”
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The present and previous presidents of Argentina have both stood up at the UN General Assembly and politely requested that the government of Iran extradite the AMIA massacre suspects it is sheltering.
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Yesterday I reviewed Bridget Kevane’s ignorant and ill-intentioned attempt to besmirch the memory Jacobo of Timerman. Today I’m going to take a look at her hatchet job on Argentina in general and its current ambassador it Washington in particular, a text in which she gets in a few final swipes at Timmerman along the way.
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Many readers will be familiar with the name of the Argentine journalist and publisher Jacobo Timerman. Kidnapped and tortured by agents of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, he was eventually allowed to leave for Israel where he wrote a book, Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number that was to become a classic account of the horrors of military rule in Argentina.
Here’s a quick test of your ability to spot antisemitic talk when confronted with it. Please read the following text:
You’re a Jewish son of a bitch and I’m going to kill you. You’re a con man, just like your family and the rest of the Jews, Hitler ought to have killed you all, never mind, I’ll be out in six months for having acted in the heat of the moment […] Yes, I’m antisemitic and xenophobic […] I want the money tomorrow.
Continue reading ‘The Two Eduardos And An Unfortunate Choice of Words’
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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.
Continue reading ‘Israeli Embassy Controls Buenos Aires City Hall’
A small step towards justice in the AMIA case was taken yesterday when the Cámara Nacional de Casación Penal (Argentina’s final criminal appeal court) ordered that Carlos Telleldín be retried on charges relating to his role in the preparation of the AMIA massacre. The decision arises from a previous Supreme Court decision which held that the early findings of the initial investigation into the atrocity are legally valid.
We’re no nearer to seeing any of the Iranian suspects wanted for the AMIA massacre in custody but some progress is being made towards making some of the Argentines responsible for obstructing the original investigation answer for their actions.
In her address to the General Assembly of the United Nations yesterday, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner performed the annual ritual of asking Iran to extradite to Argentina a number of its citizens wanted in connection with the 1994 AMIA massacre in Buenos Aires. She did the same last year and her predecessor Néstor Kirchner did likewise in 2007.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just appointed Ahmad Vahidi as Iran’s new defense minister. He is one of the Iranians being sought by the Argentine authorities on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 AMIA massacre in Buenos Aires and he is the subject an Interpol Red Notice, for all practical purposes an international arrest warrant.
Continue reading ‘Iran Thumbs Its Nose at Argentina and AMIA Victims’
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