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25 years, still no justice

The 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was so horrific that it has, to some extent, eclipsed an earlier, also deadly bombing that took place in Argentina’s capital city.

Twenty-five years ago, in 1992, Israel’s embassy in Buenos Aires was attacked in a terrorist car bombing, killing 29 and injuring 242. Among those murdered: four Israeli diplomats.

“It was the first time that Israel lost an entire embassy,” Yuval Rotem, director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry told Argentinian media this past week, when he was in the country to participate in a remembrance ceremony, 25 years to the minute after the attack.

The 1994 AMIA bombing killed 85 and injured hundreds. Within a span of two years, two deadly attacks against Jewish targets took 114 lives. That’s 114 reasons why, as much as the current threats against US JCCs remain hoaxes, they must be treated with vigilance.

The two attacks in Argentina  share something else: culprits (or a common culprit) yet to be brought to justice. Both bombings are still unresolved. Supported by much evidence, both attacks are believed by Argentina and Israel to have been committed by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran — the same regime with which the United States is back in business.

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