Comments on: Diplomatic Immunity

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By: Bruce Edelman

Bruce Edelman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:01:00 +0000

Argentina has a long history of anti-Semitism helped along by a large and well-established German community. The country under Peron was a haven for Nazi spies during WWII. After the war, the German community, along with an accommodating government, gave safe haven to many Nazi war criminals including Mengele and Eichmann. Read “Hunting Eichmann” by Neil Bascomb for a detailed description of the anti-Semitism rampant in Argentina during that era.

By: Gene Kupferschmid

Gene Kupferschmid — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:46:48 +0000

It is usually necessary to look beneath the surface and cast a glance at history. Jay Fisher appears to have done neither. The once-vital Jewish day schools in Buenos Aires have all but disappeared as many parents could no longer afford the fees due to the recurring economic economic crises or feared having their children picked up by buses bearing the names of the schools. Both Jewish sports clubs have concrete barriers on the sidewalk in front. No one is allowed into the building that houses the AMIA without a foreign passport or an Argentine cedula. Both the Israeli embassy and the AMIA were bombed with heavy loss of life. When Argentine Jews speak of their country with pride, it is because they choose to forget history just or never learned it. “Vivimos en una burbuja” “we live in a bubble” they say as they choose to ignore both history and reality. Today’s young athletes probably weren’t even born at that time. We have to ask ourselves why the Argentine Jews were silent during the military junta in which so many “disappeared”, many of them Jews. “Algo habrá hecho” they said when hearing of someone who “disappeared”, “he must have done something”. They knew they had no voice or that harm would come to those who raised it.

I suggest reading Nathan Englander’s “The Ministry of Special Cases”.

By: Ana Magnani

Ana Magnani — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:21:32 +0000

The vitriol of the comments seems strange given the complex shading of the article… So Timerman was very much a human, like, as Kevane alludes, many of the German Jews who told themselves a comforting tale of assimilation, or the Igbo traders of northern Nigeria who spoke Hausa and converted to Islam, only to be massacred in religious-regionalist riots.

The tragic figure is maybe the author herself (and many of the letter writers), who want to believe that special heroes are taking care of injustice, and ordinary people should look up to them and be inspired by their words and deeds. Unhappy the land that needs heroes, no?

By: Marcelo Bater

Marcelo Bater — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:24:44 +0000

“La opinion” was the only newspaper that openly criticized and opposed the military dictatorship. For those of us who got to experience those awful times first-hand during our teenage years, they were the only refreshing voice in the midst of people dissapearing and the fear we felt.
It is way too easy to just give an opinion from the United Stated 35 years later, so let me tell you that you are completely misinformed. I currently live in Argentina and we don’t have a newspaper (much less an Editor in Chief) as qualified as Mr. Timerman.

By: Eamonn

Eamonn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:45:52 +0000

http://blog.z-word.com/2010/01/the-timermans-and-argentina-redux/

By: Samuel Millburn

Samuel Millburn — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:11:20 +0000

Perhaps the author should be more concerned with her parenting style than with Timerman.
When I googled Bridget Kevane numerous blogs appeared about her leaving a three year old in a Montana mall with her 12 year old daughter….completely inappropriate. Ms. Kevane, stop using your energy to write ludicrous articles and accompany your kids to the mall! Ridiculous.

By: Jay Fisher

Jay Fisher — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:19:30 +0000

I am most disturbed by the author’s attempt to have Ambassador Timerman admit that Argentina is an anti-Semitic country. This broad and inappropriate generalization confuses the idea of anti-Semitism as state policy versus anti-Semitism among specific members of society who, occasionally, manage to muster enough power and influence to carry out some horrendous acts. Argentina under the former definition simply does not exist presently. One can visit the Once neighborhood in Buenos Aires or one of the Jewish sports clubs (like Club Hacoaj) to see how vibrant and, generally, left alone in peace they are. Also, I’ve had the privilege of competing against Argentine Jewish sports teams. I have yet to see athletes who are more patriotic and proud of being both Jewish and a citizen of a specific country.

Under the idea that anti-Semitism is more isolated among specific people within society: if this is the author’s definition of an “anti-Semitic” country, then any nation with a respectably sized Jewish population would fit this definition – even our own beloved USA. Think the Leo Frank murder in Marietta, GA, or any of Pres. Richard Nixon’s outbursts against Jews on the Oval Office tapes.

By: PeteSahl

PeteSahl — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:32:36 +0000

The attempt to shine new light on a complex subject by the lame author of the smear articles illustrates how even the lowliest of unprofessional hacks can stir up deep emotions on subjects they know very little about. By extropolating a few words out of context a writer has single-handedly created a maelstrom of dis-content. It is obvious to everyone, educated or not, Argentine, or not, Jewish or not, that this lady who wrote these discombobulated paragraphs really knows very little about anything except how to string 26 letters together, like a two year old. In this day and age of information overload it is too easy say anything at anytime. Therefore, the value of the written word has lost a certain amount of clout, but at the same time has the power to stir people up like never before. One little article with misinformation disinformation, quotes taken out of context and numerous biases can be disseminated across the world in a second. And, thank goodness for the combined and common intelligence of us readers it is our duty and obligation to strike those ill conceived dictums right down before they boil into something not intended. So my fellow free thinkers: Follow this blog entry with as much and as many comments as you can to thwart the enemy of TRUTH wherever it rears its ugly head. And to Mr. Jacobo Timerman, whom I met I on several occassions, you are and were a GREAT MAN and will always be regarded as such!!!!! We will NEVER FORGET you and will fight for your ideals until the death, singularly, and collectively. Your strengths are our strengths and we take them onward in adfinatum.

By: Hank Heifetz

Hank Heifetz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:18:08 +0000

What I found most disturbing and surprising about this two part article was the identification of the author as a scholar of Latin America. Her omissions (of fact and of human sympathy) become more astonishing as a result. Speaking from the basis of a long involvement with Latin America (including years in Mexico where I met many refugees who had fled the Argentine military dictatorship of the late ’70′s,) let me make the following points:
1)the traditional Argentine power-elite who led the coup were and are certainly anti-Semitic, an anti-Semitism abetted by the wholesale welcome (accorded by Peron) to German Nazis, Croatian Ustashe and other Eastern-European nationalist participants in the Shoah.
2) the Jewish community of Argentina is the largest, most successful and most wide-ranging (in the nature of its membership) Jewish presence in Latin America. And it still is.
3) The junta’s aim was to physically exterminate all leftist and (in the American sense of the word) liberal Argentines. It did not specifically target the Jewish community, though many Jews (as leftists, liberals or psychologists and psychiatrists — a special objective of the junta’s policy of exterminating “foreign influences” –were kidnapped, subjected to unspeakable tortures (the woman suffering brutal and constantly repeated rape) and eventually murdered (often by being dropped alive from airplanes into the ocean. The “leaders” of the Jewish community were very circumspect in relation to the ongoing terror (as were many non-Jews, including the great writer Borges himself) out of fear. Timerman was not and (though he was a centrist and not politically left), he insisted on publishing the names of desaparecidos in his newspaper, La Opinion, perhaps the most important in Argentina. For this, NOT because he was a Jew, he was seized, held secretly for months and bestially tortured.
4)Jews were often showered with specifically anti-Semitic insults and sadistic improvisations — as in Timerman’s description of an electric torture session many hours long when he was was asked no questions but simply hammered with anti-Semitic insults — but to say they they were treated worse then others(as the ADL in the ’70s did, presumably in ignorance)is quite untrue (and intrinsically offensive), given the unmitigated horror meted out to nearly everyone seized by the junta’s thugs.
5) Timerman himself actually survived the almost inevitable progress of these prisoners toward a horrifying death BECAUSE he was Jewish. The torturers, in their abysmal and barbaric ignorance, imagined that he was a member of the mythical (Czarist-propaganda-created) Elders of Zion and hoped to torture “secrets” out of him.
6) The torture was mostly electric, incredibly painful but a form of torture which leaves burns in situ but no other visible marks. The meeting described with a healthy-looking Timerman took place after he was no longer being tortured, as he mentions himself in his prison narrative.
7) After he left Israel, furious at the invasion of Lebanon and what he considered the shameful policies of the Begin government, he was subjected to considerable verbal attack, much of it completely false. These articles (by a specialist) smell of that type of attack and dishonor the memories of all the tortured and murdered Argentines and the best instincts (and terrible past suffering) of our own Jewish people. Timerman, like most of us, was not a perfect man but what he endured should not be reduced to a parochial — and inaccurate — issue (including by the way the author’s simplistic characterizarion of the frightful bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center in which Argentines were certainly involved but which is generally regarded as a retaliatory act (and outrage) connected with Hezbollah seeking revenge for an Israeli assassination of one of their leaders.)

By: sergio lopez

sergio lopez — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:39:33 +0000

This is the kind of professors that Montana State University has?My god , is worst than Ramon Camps!!!!!!