Buenos Aires –
Argentinian President, Cristina Kirchner, wrote on her Twitter page this week
that medical condition of Foreign Minister Hector Timerman was deteriorated due
to criticism from the Jewish community on the agreement signed with Iran for covering up the attack in Buenos Aires.
“Hector suffers greatly from the way he was treated by
community leaders who called him a traitor,” she twitted in her Twitter
page, following surgery the Foreign Minister underwent. The Jewish community
criticized Argentina’s
behavior, claiming that the government led by Kirchner signed an agreement with
Iran
to cover up its involvement in the AMIA attack (Jewish community building in Buenos
Aires in 1994, in
which 96 people were killed.)
Héctor sufrió mucho por como fue tratado por cierta dirigencia comunitaria que lo llegó a agraviar calificándolo de traidor…
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) July 14, 2015
Ya se sabe. Héctor es judío, pero primero es argentino. Como yo, que soy católica pero primero soy argentina…
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) July 14, 2015
¿Y eso qué tiene que ver? Mucho, por lo menos para mí. No puede haber nada más importante que la Patria.
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) July 14, 2015
Criticized for the government’s policy and for her words, Kirchner twitted in response addressing the dual loyalty of the Jewish community. “We already know that Hector is a Jew, but first of all he is Argentinian, like me. I am a Catholic, but first Argentinean,” she wrote. “For me, there is nothing more important than the homeland”.
Kirchner continued, writing that she does not expect an apology. In addition, the claimed that the Jewish community’s criticism of the agreement with Iran, should lead to similar criticism of the US, following the signing of the nuclear deal. “Will anyone apologize to Hector? Will anyone ask his forgiveness? In addition, would they (the Jews) use the same descriptions used for our government of the Republic of Argentina, referring to the US government? Will these people ask Israel to stop its relations with the US? You probably say no, right? So do I think, ” she wrote.
In addition to arguing that she feels “regards to those injured in the attack (the AMIA attack- the writer)” and noting that “21 years have passed, and no one was arrested or convicted.” By that, she tried to justify the decision to establish a joint committee with Iran to examine the circumstances of the attack on the Jewish Community Center.
