Sergio Massa met with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Gideon Sa'ar: “Putting Hezbollah on the red list was an important sign”

The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, received Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Gideon Sa'ar. The Israeli official, who was in Buenos Aires to participate in the event for 30 years of the attack on the Israeli Embassy, repeated his country's demand for justice and pointed out Iran as responsible for the terrorist attack.

The meeting was the one of greatest institutional relevance that the senior Israeli official had, because President Alberto Fernández did not receive it because he was not in the Federal Capital, since he first traveled to Salta and then to Tucumán and Vice President Cristina Kirchner was dedicated to the Senate session by the IMF. In the lower house, the president of the Frente de Todos bloc, Alejandro Rodríguez of the Buenos Aires Identity block, Karina Banfi of the UCR and Juan Manuel López of the Civic Coalition participated in the reception to Gideon Sa'ar. Argentina has decided to put the terrorist organization Hezbollah on the red list.

“It was a clear indication that terrorism receives all the rejection of all political forces,” Massa said at the meeting held in the Hall of Honor of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation.

“This meeting aims to strengthen parliamentary relations between the two countries,” said the president of the Chamber of Deputies and “the demonstration of Argentina's firmness in the search for justice.”

After a talk in which the different parliamentarians exchanged views with Sa'ar regarding the poor results after 30 years and the importance of keeping Hezbollah as a terrorist organization on the part of the Argentine State, they heard how the deputy prime minister referred to the attack on the Embassy of Israel was “against my country and also against Argentina” and referred to the fact that his father was born and raised in Argentina.

The Supreme Court of Justice is in charge of the investigation as it falls within its original competence, since it was an attack on a foreign diplomatic headquarters and has already proved how the events occurred and the responsibility of the Islamic fundamentalist movement Hezbollah.

Since 2015, according to a cable from the Telam agency, the international arrest of one of the defendants, the 62-year-old Lebanese citizen Hussein Mohamad Ibrahim Suleiman, has been ordered internationally. but with no results to date.

Another accused of the attack, then Hezbollah military chief, Imad Mughniyah, was killed in Damascus, Syria, in February 2008.

In 1999, a decision of the Court proved that on March 17, 1992, a Ford F 100 van loaded with explosives hit the diplomatic headquarters of Arroyo 916, in the first attack of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the country, which according to official records caused 22 deaths and more than 300 injuries.

Two years later, on July 18, 1994, the country was the victim of a second terrorist attack with the blowing up of the headquarters of the Jewish mutual society AMIA in the Once neighborhood, which caused 85 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

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In another section of the meeting, and while the Argentine Congress finalizes the definition of which legislators will be part of the group of parliamentary friends with Israel, the conversation focused on Israel's experience of coalition governments and parliaments where the ruling party and the opposition show parity.

“We talked about Israel's vast experience of parliamentary coalitions where there is a huge balance between the ruling party and the opposition - as is the case in the Chamber of Deputies. One of the most important points he explained to us from his experience is that of separating issues of state from political issues, which is something that we have to learn,” explained Massa.

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