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| | In 2021, Iranian Cartoonist Masoud Shojaei Tabatabaei on the Islamic Republic Holocaust denial event / Holocaust cartoon contests years earlier he organized:<ref>[Iranian Cartoonist Masoud Shojaei Tabatabaei on the Holocaust Cartoon Contests He Organized: Our Contests Were Counterattacks for the P... Muhammad Cartoons https://www.memri.org/tv/iran-holocaust-cartoon-contest-organizer-masoud-shoujaei-tabtabaei], Memri, Sep 9, 2021</ref><blockquote>"Our Contests Were Counterattacks for the P... Muhammad Cartoons."</blockquote> | | In 2021, Iranian Cartoonist Masoud Shojaei Tabatabaei on the Islamic Republic Holocaust denial event / Holocaust cartoon contests years earlier he organized:<ref>[Iranian Cartoonist Masoud Shojaei Tabatabaei on the Holocaust Cartoon Contests He Organized: Our Contests Were Counterattacks for the P... Muhammad Cartoons https://www.memri.org/tv/iran-holocaust-cartoon-contest-organizer-masoud-shoujaei-tabtabaei], Memri, Sep 9, 2021</ref><blockquote>"Our Contests Were Counterattacks for the P... Muhammad Cartoons."</blockquote> |
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| | + | ===Racist terror=== |
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| | + | The July 12, 1994, AMIA attack on Jewish center AMIA in Argentina by Islamic Republic of Iran's backed [[Hezbollah]] ''Ansar Allah'': 85 civilians dead and over 300 injured of multiple nationalities. The attack is considered the worst antisemitic attack in the world since World War II.<ref>Dina Siegel Vann, [https://www.ajc.org/news/25-years-since-the-amia-bombing-hezbollah-and-antisemitism 25 Years since the AMIA Bombing: Hezbollah and Antisemitism], AJC, July 17, 2019<blockquote> |
| | + | This piece originally appeared in El País [https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/07/15/america/1563211046_479182.html]. |
| | + | This year marks 25 years of impunity following the terrible terrorist attack against the headquarters of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in Buenos Aires. On July 18, 1994, following multiple warnings about the possibility of a new attack at the hands of Iran and its Hezbollah henchmen, and after the bombing in 1992 of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, a van loaded with explosives detonated in front of the building that represented the institutional heart of Judaism in Argentina. The attack left 85 civilians dead and over 300 injured of multiple nationalities. The attack is considered the worst antisemitic attack in the world since World War II. It shook Argentine society to its core and created a deep sense of vulnerability in the Jewish world at large. |
| | + | Beyond the many surprising twists and turns in a case that is yet to be deciphered, and despite continuous declarations of commitment from governments that pledge to carry the investigation to its final conclusion, the Argentine government still comes up short. There have been low points, such as the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran by president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which resulted in condemnation by the Jewish communities in Argentina and around the world, and more importantly, by the relatives of the victims. However, from the outset, evidence tampering, the slow pace with which evidence was processed, and extreme politicization have been obstacles to bringing the culprits to justice. |
| | + | There have been, however, some glimmers of light on a road marked mostly by darkness. One of the few concrete steps toward explaining the motives behind the attack,which singled out the international perpetrators of what is now known as a crime against humanity, was the investigation by Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman. Nisman’s premature and regrettable death remains a mystery. |
| | + | Nisman concluded for the first time and beyond doubt that Iranian authorities at the highest levels were the masterminds behind the attack. In 2007, during an Interpol meeting in Morocco, Nisman presented his report. After months of debate and repeated attempts by the Iranian government to sabotage the process, “red notices” were issued against five Iranian government officials.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/25-years-the-amia-bombing 25 Years Since the AMIA Bombing], Wilson Center, Jul. 12, 2019.<blockquote> |
| | + | It has been 25 years since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Eighty-five people were killed and hundreds wounded. Despite evidence of Iran and Hezbollah's roles in the attack, to date, no one has been held accountable. The Latin American Program's Argentina Project, in partnership with The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), hosted a public seminar discussing the anniversary of the bombing and implications for counterterrorism challenges globally.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | Targeting Jews in Panama shortly afterwards. The Alas Chiricanas Flight 901 murdering 12, mostly Jews July-19-1994.<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/ali-hawa-jamal/bombing-of-alas-chircanas-airlines-flight-00901 Bombing of Alas Chiricanas Airlines Flight 00901], FBI. |
| | + | <blockquote>July 19, 1994, Panama. |
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| | + | Ali Hawa Jamal. He is suspected of carrying the bomb aboard the aircraft. |
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| | + | According to reports, an unidentified Middle Eastern male used the stolen credit card of a US citizen to rent a Mazda 4x4 at a Vantage Rent-a-Car located in Panama City, Panama, on May 27, 1994...</blockquote></ref><ref>Joanna Paraszczuk, [https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinian-jihadist-group-splits-from-Hezbollah Palestinian jihadist group splits from Hezbollah], JPost, |
| | + | Dec 6, 2012.<blockquote> |
| | + | Sources tell Lebanese paper that Iran-backed Ansar Allah is cultivating ties with al-Qaida affiliates. |
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| | + | Ansar Allah was unknown until July 1994, when it issued a statement expressing support for the deadly bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hezbollah and Iran are widely suspected to have been behind that attack, which killed 85 people. |
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| | + | Ansar Allah and Hezbollah are also suspected of involvement in another terror attack, the bombing of a commuter aircraft, Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, in Panama on the night of July 19, 1994 – a day after the AMIA bombing. A semtex plastic explosive charge, carried by a man calling himself Lya Jamal, went off killing 21 passengers, 12 of them Jewish.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://irp.fas.org/threat/terror_94/latin.html#Panama PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: LATIN AMERICAN OVERVIEW].<blockquote> |
| | + | Panama |
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| | + | On 19 July a bomb aboard a commuter plane flying between Colon and Panama City detonated, killing all 21 persons aboard, including three American citizens. Twelve of the passengers were Jews. According to media reports, an organization using the name Ansar Allah, or Followers of God, issued a statement expressing support for the bombing, which appeared to be a suicide operation by a person with a Middle Eastern name. Panama has made no arrests in connection with the bombing, but it is cooperating closely with a US law enforcement investigation.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44207991 Panama says new evidence shows 1994 plane crash 'terrorist' incident, BBC, May 22, 2018<blockquote> |
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| | + | The bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia) Jewish community in Buenos Aires shocked the world]. |
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| | + | A plane crash in Panama in 1994 that killed 21 people, many of them Jews, was the result of a terrorist incident, Panama's president has said. |
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| | + | Juan Carlos Varela said the evidence came from Israeli intelligence and he had asked for the case to be reopened. |
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| | + | Prominent Jewish businessmen were among those on board the plane that crashed shortly after take off on 19 July 1994. |
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| | + | The crash happened the day after a bombing at a Jewish centre in the Argentine capital, killing 85 people. |
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| | + | Speaking to reporters in Panama on Monday, President Varela said he would ask local and international authorities to reopen the investigation into the plane crash, "given intelligence reports that clearly show it was a terrorist attack". |
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| | + | He has just returned from Israel, where he met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At a joint news conference there, he referred to a letter he received from Mr Netanyahu last November "confirming that I lost my roommate and a senior member of the Panamanian Jewish community to a terrorist attack conducted by Hezbollah in Panama some years ago". |
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| | + | Nineteen passengers and three crew members were on board Alas Chiricanas Airlines Flight 901 to Panama City when it exploded shortly after take off from Enrique Jimenez airport in Colon. Twelve of the passengers were Jews. |
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| | + | At the time, the country's President-elect Ernesto Perez Balladares said it appeared that a bomb had exploded inside the cabin, but this was never confirmed. |
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| | + | The FBI has previously said that a man named Ali Hawa Jamal was believed to have carried the bomb on to the plane and died in the explosion. He was described as being around 25-28 years old, of Middle Eastern appearance, and had previously travelled to Lebanon, Venezuela and Colombia.</blockquote></ref><ref>Juan José Rodríguez,[https://www.barrons.com/news/relatives-in-panama-still-seek-justice-for-1994-terror-attack-01595190905 Relatives In Panama Still Seek Justice For 1994 'Terror' Attack], Baarons, July 19, 2020<blockquote> |
| | + | ... In Panama, investigations have centered on a passenger named Ali Hawa Jamal, who is believed to have detonated a bomb concealed in a radio. |
| | + | An FBI statement said Jamal was the only person aboard whose body was never claimed. |
| | + | The FBI suspects Jamal belonged to the same Shiite Hezbollah group that, one day earlier, had detonated a car-bomb that killed 85 people and injured hundreds of people at the headquarters of a Jewish charity in Buenos Aires, the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association.</blockquote></ref> |
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