Alberto Fernández receives DAIA to ease tensions over Argentina’s position on the conflict in the Middle East

After the criticism he received for qualifying as Israel’s response to attacks by terrorist group Hamas on its civilian population in the Gaza Strip is “disproportionate”, and subsequent support for an investigation into alleged human rights violations by Israel, President Alberto Fernandez summoned this Monday at 17, at Casa Rosada, on Principal officers of DAIA, political entity of the country’s Jewish community.

“Alberto will listen to them and it will be a frank speech”, they confirmed near Fernández. The president of DAIA, Jorge Knoblovits, will lead the delegation, which will also integrate Marcos Cohen (Treasurer), Alejandro zuchowicki (secretary general) and Fabián Neiman, President of the Federal Council and protagonist of the harsh tweets against the president, who answered the phone anyway and started the meeting.

Fernández and Knoblovits spoke on Friday and, although the conversation was also acrimonious, they agreed to meet in person today. The good offices of the secretary of worship influenced, Guillermo Oliveri, and the Argentine Ambassador to the United States, Jorge Arguello, good links with the Jewish community, inside and outside Argentina.

Sources of the Jewish entity do not hide their unease at what they see as an “attack” on Israel by emphasizing its role in the violent exchanges with Hamas for more than a week. They regret, in dialogue with THE NATION, que se haya puesto “en pie de igualdad” a Israel con Hamas, que “es una organización terrorista prima de Hezbollah, que hizo dos atentados en la Argentina”, y que “quiere la destrucción de Israel y la eliminación física de los judíos of the world”.

From the Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, they defended the vote in favor of an investigation into possible war crimes during the days when Hamas and the State of Israel exchanged missiles, with fatal victims. on either side of the common border. “We are with what you say (Michelle) Bachelet», They defended themselves with the chancellor Felipe Solá, today in the sights of community leaders.