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788 - The AMIA Mystery feat. @iwrite4jacobin (12/4/23)

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Felix is joined by Stef aka @iwrite4jacobin to discuss his investigation into Argentina’s AMIA bombing. The 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires has generated much speculation as to who the perpetrators actually were, accusations of irregularities in the investigation, suspicions of cover-ups, connections with intelligence agencies, and the probable suicide of a prosecutor related to the case. Stef takes us through the whole story and its implications for relationships between America, Israel, Iran and Argentina. Find Stef’s series of essays on the incident on Substack, starting with Part 1 here: https://whitesiadbarre.substack.com/p/interpreting-the-amia-i-peronism And follow him on twitter here: https://twitter.com/iwrite4jacobin

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0:00.0

The All I'm going to be easy to jump.

0:13.0

All I'm going to be easy to jump. Earlier this

0:33.8

Israel spy agency Masad made an explosive announcement that they worked in

0:38.8

conjunction with Brazilian police to foil a Hezbollah terror plot.

0:43.4

Soon after this, the Brazilian police made the unusual move of telling the Israelis to

0:47.5

fuck off and stated that the plot they had foiled had no involvement with international

0:52.3

events. While many laughed, others brought up the

0:55.5

1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is proof that there must be something to Israel's

1:01.8

accusations.

1:03.5

Being in a Marifat who lost his ability to consistently read and comprehend Spanish due to my past

1:08.6

membership at a kickboxing gym or sparring happen four days a week, I can't claim to have ever read a ton about the AMIA attack.

1:17.0

Only surface level things like the suicide of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the claims of Hezbollah slash Iranian involvement, and the way

1:26.3

that this alleged involvement has been used by American Neoconservatives to point to a broader

1:31.6

Iranian operation in Latin America.

1:34.0

But luckily for all of us, we are joined today by this show's first ever Jewish Latino guest,

1:41.0

twitters and substacks I write for Jacobin, who also happens to have written an

1:46.1

excellent three-part series on the bombing and the tangled mess that has since followed.

1:51.3

How are you doing today, Steph?

1:53.0

I'm good.

1:53.7

So just for our listeners who are not super familiar

1:59.2

with the attacks and in general, not super familiar with Argentinian history in the 20th century

2:06.4

could you give some context for what it was like for the Jewish community in

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