Stella Calloni

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, July 19, 2024, p. 28

Buenos Aires, Thirty years after the bloody attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), which left 85 dead, hundreds injured and millions in damages, the trial remains unfinished and in the official act the current president of that organization, Amos Linetzky, asked the national government that the case for the attack become a matter of State, reproaching the lack of a judge for a fact emblematic of judicial historyand calling for the release of those kidnapped in Israel by the Hamas organization.

It’s a embarrassment that there is still no appointed judge, because they are fulfilled 30 years of so many unanswered questionsand the truth from what has occured is in the cause Since it was established that the responsibility for the attack It is from (the pro-Iranian Lebanese militia) Hezbollah and IranLinetzky said, although there is no evidence of this accusation so far, and the most fundamentalist sectors of Israel have become the main obstacle in trying to thoroughly investigate the responsibilities for this incident.

The same night of the attack, Israeli intelligence from the Mossad attributed it to Iran, without providing evidence, and continued to do so, even presenting false witnesses, which could not be sustained.

In addition, the president of AMIA approved the decision of the government of the far-right president, Javier Milei, who recently declared Hamas terrorist organization.

Linetzky also asked Congress to Advance with the law of trial in absentia, proposed by Milei’s government, to judge the alleged perpetrators of the attack, diplomatic and high-level Iranian officials.

She also raised eyebrows when she attacked feminist organisations, claiming that they did not speak out forcefully after the Hamas incursion into Israel on 7 October, referring to a video in which women are supposedly raped and children are seen with their throats cut during that attack, and about which there are many doubts.

The president was accompanied at the event by Vice President Victoria Villarruel and part of his cabinet, but there were no official speeches, although he had previously promulgated the law declaring July 18 as a National Day of Mourning, in homage to the victims of the AMIA.

For its part, the Active Memory group of relatives of the 85 victims rejected the government’s initiative to promote the trial in absentia against the Iranian defendants for fear that it will be used only to confirm the interest of an official hypothesis without sufficient evidence.

The truth is urgent

Diana Wassner, widow of Andrés Malamud, who died in the bombing near the mutual, said that the government presented this bill to close the case without truth and without justiceand with the sole objective of searching a tailor-made sentence.

The statement of this group was very important when it warned that It was an attack that was covered up by those in power. They also demanded the release of those kidnapped by Hamas and the end of the war between Israel and Palestine, while expressing their fed up with the endless times of justice.

All this deepens the tense framework that exists in the country, to which was added yesterday afternoon the reaction of the Islamic Republic, which was known here, such as the statements of the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Naser Kanani, who assured that The discovery of the truth and the definitive solution of this case is only possible if the parties involved in Argentina distance themselves from political interests, and are not affected by the influence and intervention of third parties..

He urged the Argentine authorities to avoid anti-Iranian statements and actions and asked that they not put Argentina’s national interests and the benefits of bilateral relations at risk, lending themselves to Israeli-American intrigues.

Officials visit criminals of the dictatorship in prison

The Argentine government has also been embroiled in a new scandal after pro-government deputies visited in prison emblematic repressors convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983).