Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign
A recent article by Jorge Elbaum, the
former executive director of DAIA (Delegation for Argentine Jewish
Associations), the principle Argentine Jewish umbrella groups, published
in the Buenos Aires daily Pagina 12, provides a detailed account of the damaging links between the State of Israel, US Wall Street speculators and local Argentine Zionists in government and out.
Elbaum describes how their efforts have been specifically directed toward destabilizing the
incumbent center-left government of President Cristina Fernandez, while
securing exorbitant profits for a Zionist Wall Street speculator, Paul
Singer of Elliott Management as well as undermining a joint
Iranian-Argentine investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of the
Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.
Elbaum’s article was written in response to
the death of Alberto Nisman, a Zionist zealot and chief government
prosecutor in the terrorist bombing investigation for over 20 years.
The serious issues raised by the political
use and gross manipulation of the horrors of the bombing of the
Argentine Jewish Community Center shows how Tel Aviv (and its political
assets in Argentina and the US) further Israeli power in the Middle
East, in particular, by isolating and demonizing Iran. This is important
at two critical levels, which this article seeks to highlight.
First of all, Israeli attempted to sidetrack the
Argentine investigation, by involving some of its powerful Wall Street
assets and influential pro-Israel lobbies (the Anti-Defamation League,
AIPAC among others). Their purpose was
to fabricate ‘evidence’ in order to implicate Iran in the crime and to
manipulate their influential assets in Argentina, especially in this
case, chief prosecutor Nisman and many of the leaders of DAIA, to accuse
the Argentine government of complicity in an ‘Iranian cover-up’.
The second issue, raised by Israel’s
intervention in Argentina’s investigation into the bombing, has wider
and deeper implications: How Israel promotes its foreign policy
objectives in various countries by grooming and manipulating local
influential Jewish officials and community organizations. This furthers
Tel Aviv’s goal of regional hegemony and territorial aggrandizement. In
other words, Israeli political reach extends far beyond the Middle East
and goes ‘global’, operating without any consideration of the dangers it
inflicts on Jews in the ‘target countries’. To this end, Israel has
been creating a worldwide network of Jews, which calls into question
their loyalty to the polity of their home countries where they have
resided for generations.
The nefarious impact, which Israel’s intervention has on the sovereignty of its ‘target countries’, presents a danger to innocent and loyal Jewish citizens who are not acting as agents of Tel Aviv.
For these reasons it is important to
critically analyze the specific characteristics of Israel’s dangerous
meddling in Argentina.
The Crisis of the Argentine Justice System: Unsolved Terrorist Crimes and Israeli Intervention
After the anti-Sematic bombing of the
Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, the Argentine judicial and
legal system seriously bungled the investigation, despite collaboration
from the US FBI and Israel’s Mossad. Argentina’s then President Carlos
Menem was an ardent neo-liberal, unconditional backer of US foreign
policy and strong supporter of Israel. His regime was still heavily
infested with high-ranking police, military and intelligence officials
deeply implicated in the seven-year bloody military dictatorship
(1976-83) during which 30,000 Argentine citizens were murdered.
Among the victims of this ‘dirty war’ were
hundreds of Argentine Jews, activists, intellectuals and militants who
were tortured and murdered to the anti-Sematic taunts of their military
and police assassins. During this same horrific ‘pogrom’ of
Argentina’s committed Jewish activists, the state of Israel managed to
sell tens of millions of dollars in arms to the junta, breaking a US-EU
boycott. Notoriously, the conservative leaders of the DAIA and AMIA
(Argentine-Israel Mutual Association) failed to defend the lives of
Jewish activists and militants. After attending meetings with the
junta, many conservative Jewish leaders would dismiss the concerns of
the families of the disappeared and tortured Argentine Jews, saying: ‘They must have done something…’
The bungled investigation into the 1994
bombing included the arrest of right-wing police officials who were
later released and the mysterious loss of vital forensic evidence.
Accusations against various foreign regimes and organizations shifted
according to the political needs of the US and Israel: First, the
Lebanese group, Hezbollah, Israel’s main military adversary during its
bloody occupation of southern Lebanon in 1990’s was touted as the
responsible party.
A few years later, Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein, prior to the Israeli-backed US invasion of Iraq; then the
Palestinians were trotted out, followed by Syria’s Baathist intelligence
forces. After the total destruction of Iraq by the US ‘coalition’ and
the decline of influential Arab states in the Middle East, the Israelis
have settled on Iran as the ‘prime suspect’, coinciding with Teheran’s
rise of as a regional power – challenging Israeli and US hegemony.
With the 2001 collapse of Argentina’s
version of a kleptocratic neo-liberal, pro-US bootlicking regime, and
in the midst of a dire economic depression, there was a popular upheaval
and the subsequent election of President Kirchner bringing a new
center-left government to power.
The new government, defaulting on its
murderous foreign debt, oversaw Argentina’s economic recovery and a vast
increase in social spending which stabilized capitalism. Kirchner also
promoted greater independence in foreign policy and sought to enhance
Buenos Aires relations with Israel by re-opening the investigation into
the bombing and retaining Alberto Nisman, as chief prosecutor.
Nisman, the Mossad and the US Embassy Connection
In his article, ‘Vultures, Nisman, DAIA: The Money Route’ (Pagina 12,
4/18/15), Jorge Elbaum, points out that chief prosecutor, Alberto
Nisman, opened secret bank account in New York. As Elbaum told
prominent figures in Argentina’s Jewish community, Nisman’s campaign to
discredit the government’s joint investigatory commission with Iran and
demonize the Argentine government was financed, at least in part, by New
York’s vulture fund head, Paul Singer, who stood to make hundreds of
millions in profit.
According to documents, cited by Elbaum, US
embassy personnel and leading US Zionist organizations, including the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, led by Mark Dubowitz, as well as
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, fed Nisman fabricated
‘evidence’ and corrected numerous substantive and grammatical
flaws in his report purporting to ‘demonstrate’ Argentine’s cover-up of
the Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing. However, forensic and legal
experts in Argentina have determined that Nisman’s claims lack any legal
basis or credibility.
The entire ‘Operation Nisman’ appears
to have been orchestrated by Israel with the goal of isolating Iran via
fabricated evidence supposed to ‘prove’ its role in the 1994 bombing.
The recruitment of Nisman, as a key Israeli operative, was central to
Israel’s strategy of using the DAIA and other Argentine – Jewish
organizations to attack the Argentine-Iran memo of understanding
regarding the investigation of the bombing. Israel pushed US-Zionist
organizations to intensify their intervention into Argentine politics
via their networks with Argentine-Jewish organizations.
The vulture-fund speculator, Paul Singer,
who had bought defaulted Argentine debt for ‘pennies on the dollar’, was
demanding full payment through sympathetic New York courts. He had
funded a special speculators’ task force on Argentina joining forces
with Israel, US Zionist organizations and Alberto Nisman in order to
manipulate Argentina’s investigation and secure a bountiful return.
Nisman thus became a ‘key tool’ to Israel’s regional military strategy
toward Iran, to New York speculator Singer’s strategy to grab a billion
dollar windfall and to the Argentine right wing’s campaign to
destabilize the center-left government of Kirschner-Fernandez.
By acting mainly in the interest of Israel and US Zionists, Nisman sacrificed the Argentine-Jewish community’s desire
for a serious, truthful investigation into the bombing leading to
identification and conviction of the perpetrators. Moreover, Nisman
compromised himself by
being a tool for Israel’s foreign policy against the interest of the
Argentine government, which he was sworn to serve, and endangered the
status of the Argentine Jewish community among Argentines in general by
raising questions about their loyalty to their home country.
Fortunately, Argentina has sophisticated ,
prominent Jewish leaders who see themselves as Argentine citizens first
and foremost, including leaders like Foreign Secretary Hector Timmerman
who proposed the joint investigation with Iran as well as the former
DAIA Executive Director Jorge Elbaum who has played a major role in denouncing Israel’s
intervention in Argentine politics. It is citizens, like Elbaum, who
have exposed the Israeli government’s role in recruiting and
manipulating local leading Argentine-Jews to serve Tel Aviv’s foreign
policy interests.
This is in stark contrast to the United
States where no major American-Jewish leader has dared to denounce the
role of leading Zionist organizations as Israel’s conduit. Furthermore,
unlike Argentina, where a sector of the liberal press (Pagina 12)
has published critical accounts of Nisman’s fabrications and Israel’s
destabilization campaign, newspapers in the US, like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, have continued to present Nisman’s discredited report as a serious investigation by a courageous, ‘martyred’ prosecutor.
The US media continues to portray the entire Argentine judicial system ascorrupt and
argue that Nisman’s death must have been a state-orchestrated crime.
The US public has never been presented with the fact that the leading
critics of Nisman’s report and his own behavior were prominent Argentine
Jews and that Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timmerman, organized
the Argentine-Iran commission.
Conclusion
That Israel was willing to derail any
serious the investigation into the 1994 bombing, which killed and maimed
scores of Argentine Jews, in order to further its campaign against
Iran, demonstrates the extent to which the self-styled ‘Jewish State’ is
willing to sacrifice the interests and security of world Jewry to
further its narrow military agenda.
Equally egregious is the way in which Tel Aviv recruits overseas Jews to serve Israel’s interests against that of their own countries, turning them into a ‘fifth column’, operating inside and outside of
their governments. That Israeli intelligence has been exposed and
denounced in the case of Nisman, has not forestalled nor prevented
Israel from continuing this long-standing, practice of dangerous
meddling. This is especially evident in the ‘Israel-first behavior’ of
leading Jewish American organizations and political leaders who have
pledged their total allegiance to Netanyahu’s war agenda against Iran an
bought the US Congress to scuttle the peace accord.
It merits repetition: Israel’s widespread
practice of recruiting Jewish citizens and officials of other countries
to serve as vehicles of Israeli policies has the potential to foment a
new and possibly violent backlash, once the greater population has been
made aware of such treasonous activities. In this regard, Israel does
not represent a bastion of security for world Jewry, but a cynical,
manipulative and deadly threat. Perhaps that is Israel’s ultimate
strategy – create a backlash of generalized anger against overseas Jews
and precipitate massive flight to Israel from countries like Argentina,
while the few who remain can be better manipulated to serve Tel Aviv.
Epilogue
A few days ago, on April 23, a crowd of
several hundred Argentine Jews met to repudiate the arrogant claims of
the established leaders of the DAIA and the AMIA that they represent
‘all Argentine Jews”. This overflow crowd in the auditorium of the
telephone workers union proposed to create a ‘collective and democratic
space, based on links of solidarity over and above commercial
connections.’ The Jewish community in the US would be wise to pay close
attention to Argentina’s example.
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