July 18, 2014, - 8:58 am
20 Years Ago Today: Hezbollah/Iran Bombing of Jewish Community Center Argentina – Iran Has Last Laugh
Twenty years ago today, on July 18, 1994, a Hezbollah/Iran operative bombed the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires, Argentina, known as AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, or Argentine Israelite Mutual Association). 85 people, most of them Jews, were murdered, and more than 300 were injured. The bomb completely and quickly flattened the large seven-story building.
And so it is ironic that on this day, twenty years later, America is closer and friendlier than ever to Iran–which has never paid or admitted its part in this massacre–and is enabling this nation, which commissioned mass murder of the Jews in South America, to soon have nuclear weapons. Not ironic, just sad and disgusting. And Israel and the Jewish people, today, continue to be plagued by deadly Iran-sponsored HAMAS and Iran-financed Hezbollah, which still target not only Israel, but all Jewish people, including tourists on a bus in Bulgaria, who were blown up by yet another Hezbollah jihadist. Also today, Israel continues to fight a far-too-restrained two-prong war against HAMAS and its ally-in-Jew-hatred, Hezbollah. Some things never change because Islamic terrorists are handled with kid gloves.
Also sad and disgusting that Ibrahim Hussein Berro–the 21-year-old (some reports say he was 29) Shi’ite Muslim suicide bomber who perpetrated the attack at the behest of Iran and Hezbollah–is having another last laugh. In addition to America’s strange new love affair with Iran, Berro’s relatives–including his two brothers, admitted members of Hezbollah–are Americans now. In fact, they live just miles from me in Dearbornistan, Michigan, where they proudly gave photos and blood samples to enable investigators to determine from Berro’s DNA that he was the bomber. The relatives see this “achievement”–the murder of nearly 100 Jews as something to celebrate. And they live in our midst.
As I’ve told you time and again over the last two decades-plus, Hezbollah’s minions are on our shores, thriving and multiplying exponentially–a fifth column of well over 100,000 are here. And when they visit their native South Lebanon, they can see the plaque in their close relative’s honor, which lauds Berro’s “martyrdom.” Yup, religion of peace, indeed. Religion of pieces and rest in peace.
The Buenos Aires Jewish Center bombing followed the 1992 Hezbollah/Iran bombing of the Israeli Embassy there, in which 29 innocent people were murdered and 242 were injured. The day after the Jewish Center bombing, Iran and Hezbollah struck again, with a suicide bombing on a Panamanian commuter plane, killing all 21 passengers, 12 of whom were Jews. Investigators found that the terrorist bomber was an Arab passenger with fake Columbian identification documents, using the name Lya Jamal.
But, despite all this, it took a long time for any investigation to ever happen. Then-Argentine President Carlos Menem, an Arab “former” Muslim of Syrian descent, took at least $10 million in bribes (deposited in his Swiss bank account) from Iran to cover it up and block any legitimate investigation into Iran’s and Hezbollah’s sponsorship of this mass killing.
But, finally, as I noted on this site in 2006, Argentine prosecutors ordered the arrest of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the Jewish Community Center bombing, saying the decision to attack the center “was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran” and carried out by Hezbollah. They asked the judge to seek international and national arrest orders for Rafsanjani, as well as Iranian intelligence chief Ali Fallahijan and foreign minister Ali Ar Velayati. Also responsible was Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s chief of armed operations, who was sent to the 72 dark-eyed virgins in a well-deserved car bombing that is frequently blamed on Israel.
The Argentinians, of course, never actually got to arrest or try any of these culpable Iranian leaders, who worked for the same ayatollahs that run Iran today. And Barack Obama demanded no justice for the victims of the AMIA bombing–not even an apology–when he re-opened trade and meaningless, phony negotiations with Iran. Iran has never been made to pay. Instead, Obama rewarded the country, and it is laughing at us all the way to the bank . . . and to the uranium enrichment, centrifuge, and ICBM plants.
Iran, too, is laughing at the victims and survivors of its bombing twenty years ago today, as its well-financed proxy, HAMAS, continues to murder Jews and make war with Israel, along with its other well-funded proxy, Hezbollah.
So, the wails of the ghosts of the victims of Hezbollah’s and Iran’s unpunished and unanswered bombing of the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires cry out.
But, 20 years later, nobody is listening.
Zichronam LiVrachah [Blessed Be Their Memories], the Victims Who Died at the July 18, 1994 Hezbollah/Iran bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association:
Silvana Alguea de Rodríguez
Jorge Antúnez
Moisés Gabriel Arazi
Carlos Avendaño Bobadilla
Yanina Averbuch
Naum Band
Sebastián Barreiros
David Barriga
Hugo Norberto Basiglio
Rebeca Violeta Behar de Jurín
Dora Belgorosky
Favio Enrique Bermúdez
Romina Ambar Luján Boland
Emiliano Gastón Brikman
Gabriel Buttini
Viviana Adela Casabé
Paola Sara Czyzewski
Jacobo Chemauel
Cristian Adrián Degtiar
Diego De Pirro
Ramón Nolberto Díaz
Norberto Ariel Dubin
Faiwel Dyjament
Mónica Feldman de Goldfeder
Alberto Fernández
Martín Figueroa
Ingrid Finkelchtein
Leonor Gutman de Finkelchtein
Fabián Marcelo Furman
Guillermo Benigno Galarraga
Erwin García Tenorio
José Enrique Ginsberg (Kuky)
Cynthia Verónica Goldenberg,
ndrea Judith Guterman
Silvia Leonor Hersalis
Carlos Hilú
Emilia Jakubiec de Lewczuk
María Luisa Jaworski
Analía Verónica Josch
Carla Andrea Josch
Elena Sofía Kastika
Esther Klin
León Gregorio Knorpel
Berta Kozuk de Losz
Luis Fernando Kupchik
Agustín Diego Lew
Jesús María Lourdes
Andrés Gustavo Malamud
Gregorio Melman
Ileana Mercovich
Naón Bernardo Mirochnik (Buby)
Mónica Nudel
Elías Alberto Palti
Germán Parsons
Rosa Perelmuter
Fernando Roberto Pérez
Abraham Jaime Plaksin
Silvia Inés Portnoy
Olegario Ramírez
Noemí Graciela Reisfeld
Félix Roberto Roisman
Marisa Raquel Said
Ricardo Said
Rimar Salazar Mendoza
Fabián Schalit
Pablo Schalit
Mauricio Schiber
Néstor Américo Serena
Mirta Strier
Liliana Edith Szwimer
Naum Javier Tenenbaum
Juan Carlos Terranova
Emilia Graciela Berelejis de Toer
Mariela Toer
Marta Treibman
Angel Claudio Ubfal
Eugenio Vela Ramos
Juan Vela Ramos
Gustavo Daniel Velázquez
Isabel Victoria Núñez de Velázquez
Danilo Villaverde
Julia Susana Wolinski de Kreiman
Rita Worona
Adehemar Zárate Loayza
That Was Then . . .
This Is Now . . .
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Keep the hammer down, Debbie. Don’t ever stop your reportage and reminding exactly what Islam is.
I can hear some Muslim saying, and just what are we?
You are punks. You are irrational, hate-filled, human devils with sun burnt brains. Your “religion” is not a religion at all, but the world’s largest gang.
I don’t believe that this man Mohamed ever existed, and who elevated him to prophet status? There were no prophets after Jesus, you idiots. Your “Noble” Qu’ran is nothing but a bunch of made up, hastily scribbled nonsense, an instruction manual for the gang, nothing more. The “God” you worship doesn’t even exist.
The God of Israel will some day come and teach you truth. The only truth you know is whether or not your camels are the kind with one hump or two. And as for youse guyz, you’re all a bunch of humps.
I love you, Debbie. The Lord keep you safe and well.
Alfredo from Puerto Rico on July 18, 2014 at 9:16 am