Israel SitRep: July 22, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IDF Confirms Deaths of Hostages Alex Dancyg and Yagev Buchstab | After Attacks Against Israel From al-Mawasi Humanitarian Zone, IDF Calls for Temporary Evacuation | COGAT: ‘We Place...
AMIA bombing
The AMIA Bombing: Thirty Years Later
Victims of Iranian and Hezbollah terrorism in Argentina now have hope of bringing their perpetrators to justice.
Op-eds
The Killers of the AMIA Still Walk Free
On July 18, 1994, at 9:53 am, a Hezbollah suicide bomber, Ibrahim Berro, drove a car laden with explosives in front of the AMIA, the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and pressed the detonator, ripping...
Insights
Argentina Becomes First Latin American State to Designate Hamas as Terrorist Organization
Argentina became the first state in Latin America to designate Hamas as a terrorist organization, in a move announced by President Javier Milei on July 12. A statement from the president’s...
Flash Briefs
Iran Rebuffs Argentine Request for Extradition of Key Terrorist Mastermind
Tehran on April 24 rejected an Argentine request for the extradition of Iran’s interior minister for his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in...
Flash Briefs
A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption
Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity...
Op-eds
Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing
In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...
Op-eds
Don’t Bury Alberto Nisman Again
Those with the legal duty to seek the truth have done just the opposite. They are seeking to bury Alberto Nisman and his investigation once again.
Op-eds
Justice is elusive six years after the murder of Alberto Nisman
This week marks six years since Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found lifeless in his apartment. He was found dead the day before he was to provide evidence to the Argentine Congress he...
Op-eds
Remembering the AMIA Bombing: Why It Matters 26 Years Later
lberto Nisman, the tireless Argentine prosecutor who led the decade-long investigation into the bombing of the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center in downtown Buenos Aires, once told me that when Argentina’s...
Op-eds
Justice demanded for Argentina’s slain terrorism prosecutor
Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost...
Op-eds
The Mystery Martyr
Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...
Op-eds
Iranian Terror. Argentinian Cover Up. Justice at Last?
One morning last week, Argentines woke up to a political earthquake: A judge...
Op-eds
Obama Can’t Let Iran Get Away With Murder
The Obama administration has long said it will hold Iran accountable for acts of terrorism. It now has a chance to prove it: Interpol red notices for five former Iranian officials found culpable in...
Op-eds
US Should Help Argentina Solve Terrorism Case
Will the presidential victory of Mauricio Macri in Argentina finally bring justice to the victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires? Will it solve the murder of t...
Op-eds
Alberto Nisman’s Warning About Iran
Beyond puzzling over the circumstances, is there any response the U.S. can make to the sudden death this past weekend of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman? Nisman spent the pas...
Op-eds
Argentine Prosecutor Found Dead, Fought Iran-Backed Terror Around World
Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (the AMIA building) in Argentina, has been ...
Op-eds
Iran’s Nuclear Shadow
During the past decade, Western diplomats have been engaged in protracted negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear program. Though a deal remains elusive, Western policymak...
Op-eds
In Iran, Two Bombing Suspects Run for President
After disqualifying a number of presidential candidates from the June 14 elections, Iran's Guardian Council has pared the list down to eight. Remarkably, two of the remaining candidates --...