Argentina/Israel honour victims of 1992 terrorist attack and accuse Iran
Argentina and Israel gathered on Friday to honour the 29 victims of the 1992 terrorist car bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, the first of two deadly attacks against Jewish interests in Argentina. The second in July 1994 against the Jewish community organization AMIA claimed 85 lives.
The ceremony held at a concrete open space where once stood the embassy building, was marked by the call for justice as the deadly attack remains unsolved and the perpetrators at large twenty years later.
The attack occurred on 17 March but the ceremony was advanced a day because Saturday is Shabbat, the holy rest day for the Jewish religion. The bombing claimed the lives of 29 Israelis and Argentines wounding over 242, and is believed to have been planned and executed by Hezbollah with Iranian support.
Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou, Justice Minister Julio Alak, cabinet chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli and representatives from the City of Buenos Aires attended the ceremony as President Cristina was in an official visit in Chile. Israel sent a delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Affairs minister Danny Ayalon and Minister without portfolio Yossi Peled and which included former diplomat Itzhak Shefi who was then ambassador in Argentina.
Acting president Boudou said the bombing was ‘an attack against the 40 million Argentines’ and Justice minister Alak stated that the attacks to the Israel Embassy and the AMIA Jewish Community Centre “are a deep wound in the Republic” and highlighted that currently Argentina “is fully committed in the fight against international terrorism”.
Both the Argentine Supreme Court and Israel are convinced that the Islamic Jihad belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization and financed by Iran were responsible for the planning and execution of the attack.
A week before at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a similar ceremony for the 17 March 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack in Buenos Aires, Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced the construction of a new embassy and accused Iran of supporting international terrorism.
“Here and now I want to announce that next year the State of Israel with the help of God, will begin the construction of a building to house the new embassy in Buenos Aires. Not a temporal building of several floors, but the glory and an example to preserve the memory of the victims”, said Lieberman.
He added that “this attack and the one on AMIA have been recorded in the history and national memory of the State of Israel and of the Argentina people” and then warned that the international community must not underestimate Iran’s participation in global terrorism or the repeated threats from the ayatollahs’ regime”.
“The Islamic Republic and Hezbollah wish to attack has only increased with age. We need international cooperation to impede this” underlined Lieberman who added that the so called triple border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay is a Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure “and a threat not only for Israel but for the free world”.
The Israeli minister also praised the work displayed by Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman who since 2005 has been investigating the AMIA attack.
“I want to thank Dr, Nisman who since his naming in the investigation has worked tirelessly to track the planners and perpetrators of the attacks and has released arrest orders against them. Now it is world wide known that Iran was behind the attacks, through its terrorist organization in Lebanon, Hezbollah” indicated the Israeli minister.
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then do I take it, that if their new friend actually attacks IRAN then CFK and Argentina will fully back Israel up, and send troops ships and planes, in defence of Israel,
or more truthfully, just like her friends in south America, her support only goes as far as talking,
so back to square one again .
www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/05/us-iran-argentina-idUSTRE7B408T20111205
All your troubles in the Middle East stem from hypocrisy and the inevitable double-dealing, duplicity, and propping up of convenient dictators on the one hand and overthrowing those you didn't like on the other (and splitting the land into ridiculous entities, like Iraq).
Europe and the USA are far bigger experts in hypocrisy than us. Ask Bin Laden in the 80s (maybe he not dead yet!)
Yes that's right.
Argentina is a third world banana republic dictatorship. Liars and hypocrites.
Frankly you disgust me.
You did not deny what I said about foreign policy. You have propped-up dictators and then turned on them (as if anyone with a brain believes the front), you have supplied weapons to militants who then turned on YOU! You have engaged in double dealings with supposed enemies... Please don't tell me its part of geopolitik, because hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
And the reason it is worse coming from Europe and the USA is because they still then pretend to do things “out of the values of democracy”, and it doesn't stop there. They dare accuse other countries of hypocrisy when they play the same game.
It is your governments who are disgusting and history will and is judging them as such. However, I would never mix the citizenry into that. Once in power politicians elected change their tune on a heartbeat.
You don't see the hypocrisy there?
A sandwich of FAIL for you, Sir.
But he does have a valid point regarding the Middle East.
Bin Laden was trained & funded by the Americans to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
We all sold weapons to Saddam Hussein & encouraged him to fight lran.
Some western nations even sold lraq nuclear components.
These things do have a tendency to turn around & bite you on the arse.
Especially when you're dealing with volatile people.
But greed always starts with accusations, then increases to threats,
Then slowly involves others, then they get aggressive, then on and on until violence spreads,
Argentina knows she has no claim or ownership, so in fact CFK and her government should be thoroughly ashamed of her self, in picking on an innocent island and causing all this upset between 3 nations all for her own vanity, trying to divert attention away from Argentina onto the islands is a disgrace, as all actions have to be answered,
And its very silly for the other south American nations to back her up, when knowing she has no claim, I personally hope for all our sakes that this blows away, or she goes under,
Because if it all goes pear shape, then Argentina will get the backlash in all this,
Just a point .
and the other Argentina crooks are her vice-president, Amado Boudou, he is actually an owner of the company that prints money for the government in Argentina, a major conflict of interest, but he denies it, he owns the company in the names of other friends and associates. He is being investigated and surely will end up in jail where he belongs. Cristinas 2 VERY UGLY children, Maximo and Florencia Kirchner, are also very corrupt. Maximo owns all kinds of hotels and properties adn Florencia is a film student in New York and lives in a luxury Park Avenue apartment and is known for major cocaine use. Some of us who know her in New York remember how she always used to tell us how her parents have a bank account drawn on the Nation of Argentina and for her family money is no object. These 2 corrupt children of Cristina Kirchner are self proclaimed “militants”, they belong to 2 internal terrorist groups which Cristina Kirchner finances, “La Cámpora” and “Quebracho”. “La Cámpora” goes around to the poor shantytowns around the cities in Argentina and gives the poor people a bag of groceries, a sausage sandwich called “choripan” and $20 pesos to buy their votes. These people have no choice but to accept this as they are extremely poor and have no other hope. “Quebracho” is a terrorist group which Cristina Kirchner pays to protect her, they disguise their faces and go around shaking down businesses to get money and give back to the president. They are also responsible for drug dealing, robberies and murders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBAjfgHLyk&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwWSN2pukk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvQw00SV-c
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPC0SD0PGw
www.ripoffreport.com/government-worker/argentina-tourists-m/argentina-tourists-murdered-l-33f51.htm
www.ripoffreport.com/federal-government/cristina-kirchner/cristina-kirchner-cristina-kir-dc9b0.htm
#9 Theres no hypocrisy in trying to get justice for a crime done against you (and it was only since Nestor came in that Argentina has been, on this as so much else the privatiser governments were remiss) and opposing future crimes (ie the nuclear agression)
#16 Do you have to post this crap on every thread? Do you think anyone takes it sderiously?
Spain is just as much, apart of your history as our own history.
But then again if you guys are now stating that Argentina is now a peaceful nation, you all live in a convent and live like monks, and obey the ten commandments, then I would have to say, congratulations argentine for changing so much, in a short space of time,
But as I don’t live in fantasy land, and believe you have changed very little in your outlook in the last 30 years, nothing really has changed, you still want to steal what is not yours, and never has been, you think that by getting all of south America on your side, we will just give in,
Then you will have a long and wasted wait,
As long as you and CFK are anti democracy, then you will always be what you are,
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