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Declassify the AMIA files. Now.
For those unfamiliar with the controversy, I'm referring to 1994 AMIA (Jewish Community Center) bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as the one at the Israeli Embassy in 1992. The very first forensic tests in each case conclusively found them to be inside jobs using bombs detonated from within the buildings.
The fact remains that despite every effort to pin them on Iran (including witness and evidence tampering, bribery, and fabrications so blatant, the judge on the case was impeached) no evidence has been found of such involvement in 20 years, not by the Argentines, the U.S., Israel, INTERPOL, or anyone else (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/07/a-rush-to-judgment-in-argentine-bomb-case/). Interpol, in fact, ruled out Iranian complicity a decade ago already.
The problem with Israel is purely one of leadership; but impunity makes the problem possible to begin with. Moderate Israelis have no chance against monsters like Bibi when the media - and rigid U.S. policy - gives them cover no matter how brazen they get. Obviously they don't even respect the U.S. anymore, high-handedly waving aside even the meekest Obama administration requests for restraint - not to mention inviting himself to address Congress (to show the U.S. "who's the boss"
and of course these latest revelations.
A simple thing like declassifying the AMIA files - and possibly others, such as the London Embassy bomb just days after AMIA - would change all that. Since the goal of the bombings was to derail Prime Minister Rabin and the Peace Process itself, Bibi would have the most to lose if they were ever declassified. He owes his impressive career to their derailment, and of course shares the government with the very same Israeli far-right that benefited (and probably planned) the bombings - as well as the murder of Prime Minister Rabin.
Doing so would then not only bring the perpetrators to justice, above all it would make Israel itself a much better country.
For those unfamiliar with the controversy, I'm referring to 1994 AMIA (Jewish Community Center) bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as the one at the Israeli Embassy in 1992. The very first forensic tests in each case conclusively found them to be inside jobs using bombs detonated from within the buildings.
The fact remains that despite every effort to pin them on Iran (including witness and evidence tampering, bribery, and fabrications so blatant, the judge on the case was impeached) no evidence has been found of such involvement in 20 years, not by the Argentines, the U.S., Israel, INTERPOL, or anyone else (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/07/a-rush-to-judgment-in-argentine-bomb-case/). Interpol, in fact, ruled out Iranian complicity a decade ago already.
The problem with Israel is purely one of leadership; but impunity makes the problem possible to begin with. Moderate Israelis have no chance against monsters like Bibi when the media - and rigid U.S. policy - gives them cover no matter how brazen they get. Obviously they don't even respect the U.S. anymore, high-handedly waving aside even the meekest Obama administration requests for restraint - not to mention inviting himself to address Congress (to show the U.S. "who's the boss"
and of course these latest revelations.
A simple thing like declassifying the AMIA files - and possibly others, such as the London Embassy bomb just days after AMIA - would change all that. Since the goal of the bombings was to derail Prime Minister Rabin and the Peace Process itself, Bibi would have the most to lose if they were ever declassified. He owes his impressive career to their derailment, and of course shares the government with the very same Israeli far-right that benefited (and probably planned) the bombings - as well as the murder of Prime Minister Rabin.
Doing so would then not only bring the perpetrators to justice, above all it would make Israel itself a much better country.
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