Photos of the 85 victims of the July 18, 2024 AMIA bombing in Argentina.
Hezbollah and Iran responsible for the attack
The government of Argentina and the World Jewish Congress report that this act of terrorism was carried out by Hezbollah and supported by Iran.
Havana permitted Hezbollah to establish a base in Cuba
Havana has allowed the terrorist organization Hezbollah to establish “an operational base in Cuba, designed to support terrorist attacks throughout Latin America,” according to emails intercepted from then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Cuban dictatorship has had a longstanding affiliation with this terrorist organization, and it has a significant problem with Jews.
Hezbollah’s praise for Fidel Castro
When Fidel Castro died in 2016, the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah praised him as “a historic symbol whose life was a lighthouse to all revolutionaries around the world,” according to the party’s spokesman. Castro and Che Guevara pioneered the type of guerilla warfare relied on by Hezbollah and other terror groups, reported The Times of Israel.
Castro regime’s connection to Islamic terrorism
Families still wait for justice 30 years after deadly attack on Buenos Aires Jewish center
Hundreds of Argentines on Thursday gathered to demand justice for a 1994 bomb attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and wounded hundreds. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in June found Argentina responsible for failing to prevent or properly investigate the attack.
Issued on:
Hundreds of Argentines gathered in Buenos Aires Thursday to demand justice
for the attack on a Jewish community center that killed 85 people 30 years ago to the day.
Loved ones of victims held up photographs of the fallen and placed candles and roses at the site where a truck laden with explosives drove into the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and detonated on July 18, 1994.
The deadliest attack in the South American country’s history injured more than 300 people.
Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, with some 300,000 members.
“Thirty years without a single person answering for this attack. Thirty years in which the State of Argentina has looked the other way,” AMIA president Amos Linetzky told Thursday’s gathering, also attended by President Javier Milei.
Argentina called out
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica in June found the Argentine state responsible for not preventing, nor properly investigating, the attack.
It also blamed the state for efforts to “cover up and obstruct the investigation,” robbing victims and their loved ones of justice.
The 1994 assault has never been claimed or solved, but Argentina and Israel have long suspected Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group carried it out at Iran’s request.
Argentina has since 2006 sought the arrest of eight Iranians, including then-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramaie Rafsanjani.
In April, an Argentine court blamed Hezbollah for the attack it called a “crime against humanity,” and labeled Iran a “terrorist state.”
It found that the attack and another on the Israeli embassy in 1992 that killed 29 people were likely triggered by the government under then-president Carlos Menem canceling three contracts with Iran for the supply of nuclear equipment and technology.
After that ruling, Buenos Aires asked Interpol to arrest Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, whom it accuses of masterminding the attack.
Tehran denies any involvement.
(AFP)
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter, July 18, 2024
AMIA: 30 years later still no justice for victims of terrorist attack that killed 85 people
30 years of impunity in Argentina
This mural was created by Kol-Kir (Hebrew for ‘Every Wall’) along the 300 block of Serrano in 2010 to commemorate the AMIA bombing. Wally Gobetz
In the span of a week in July 1994, two acts of terrorism killed over 122 Latin Americans. Thirty-seven Cubans were murdered by by Cuban government agents on July 13, 1994, in what amounted to an act of state terrorism, and eighty-five Argentinians, many but not all Jewish, were killed by Hezbollah five days later, on July 18, 1994, in an act of international terrorism.
Much has been written about the victims of the “13 de Marzo” massacre in the last week, but today, marking thirty years since the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires, the reality that justice has yet to be served demands that we speak up.
Justice delayed is justice denied. The World Jewish Congress reports that this act of terrorism was carried out by Hezbollah and supported by Iran.
Havana has permitted the terrorist organization Hezbollah to establish “an operational base in Cuba, designed to support terrorist attacks throughout Latin America,” according to emails hacked from then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Cuban dictatorship has a decades long relationship with this terrorist movement, and has a serious problem with Jews.
[ Full article ]
http://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2024/07/amia-30-years-later-still-no-justice.html
Voz, July 6, 2024
The Castro regime’s connection to Islamic terrorism
The documentary “Terrorism: the Cuban Connection,” produced and published by the Center for a Free Cuba, reveals Cuba’s troubling and persistent relationship with organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.
Since October 7 of last year, when the Hamas terrorist group launched a series of savage attacks against Israel, the world once again became concerned about countries that serve as facilitators for the world’s leading terrorist organizations. One of them is Cuba, a country that, under the Trump Administration, entered the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2021.
During last May, it was thought for a few days that Joe Biden’s Administration would emulate the Obama Administration and remove the small Caribbean island from this list after the State Department itself admitted that it is cooperating with the island in some activities to combat terrorism. In the end, however, the Biden Administration denied the suggestion amid intense pressure from the country’s top Cuban-American Republican leaders. Today, the decision to keep Cuba on this list is especially significant, especially given the Castro regime’s historical connections to Islamic terrorism and the enemies of the United States and its main ally in the Middle East, Israel.
The documentary “Terrorism: The Cuban Connection”, produced and published by the Center for a Free Cuba, reveals the worrying and on-going relationship of Cuba with international terrorism.
In this film, the chilling connection of how the Cuban regime served as a key player in supporting terrorist activities around the world for decades is shown in great detail.
[ Full article ]
https://voz.us/en/world/240707/14324/the-castro-regime-s-connection-to-islamic-terrorism.html
The Times of Israel, November 27, 2016
Hezbollah lauds ‘historic symbol’ Fidel Castro
The Lebanese Hezbollah terror group praises Fidel Castro, the late Cuban leader, as a “historic symbol,” according to the Naharnet news site.
Castro is “a historic symbol whose life was a lighthouse to all revolutionaries around the world,” a spokesman for the group says.
Castro, along with Che Guevara, pioneered the kind of guerrilla warfare that Hezbollah, among other terror groups, has relied on.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-lauds-historic-symbol-fidel-castro/