Javier Milei has already asked his team to confirm his presence this Monday the 18th at the
central event for the 32nd anniversary of the terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires,
which left 29 dead on March 17, 1992. He is expected to do so. accompany his sister Karina Milei, general secretary of the Presidency.
This attack preceded the attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (Amia) on July 18, 1994, which left 85 dead.
In both situations, the Argentine justice system, Israel and the United States held the Shiite militia Hezbollah responsible for the attacks, in connection with local points and at a time when Carlos Menem governed.
The anniversary date is Sunday the 17th, but the organization decided to move the event to Monday the 18th, on the so-called Plaza Israel, in Arroyo and Suipacha, where the Embassy that was destroyed was built.
As is tradition, a siren will sound at 2:50 p.m., the time of the bombing, which in the case of the embassy came from inside the building.
The explosion destroyed the diplomatic headquarters, the Madre Admirable parish, a nursing home, a school, part of the surrounding buildings and houses.
It left 29 dead and about 200 injured.
The highest Israeli authority who will be present is Jonathan Peled, Deputy Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Foreign Ministry, in addition to Ambassador Eyal Sela.
It was not reported which ministers will be present in a Cabinet still shocked by the rejection of the DNU in the Senate, which further strained the relationship between Milei and her vice president, Victoria Villarruel.
Milei had already been present as a candidate for President at the event for the anniversary of the attack on Amia last year.
Your presence will be a most unusual gesture.
The only president who is remembered to have been at this event is Menem.
But also unusual was the trip that Javier Milei made in February to Israel on his way to see Pope Francis.
As then, he now seeks to give strong support to the Hebrew State with whom he has a very strong political and spiritual relationship.
The international context, however, is one of great international pressure and criticism towards the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for the prolongation of its war against the Hamas terrorist group in Garza, which has left at least 30,000 Palestinians dead, including numerous children and innocents.
Netanyahu's crusade was launched after the brutal terrorist attack by the fundamentalist group on Israeli territory on October 7.
This left 1,200 dead, including civilians and innocent children.
And the terrorists took 240 hostages to the Strip as war booty for future exchanges.
Several were freed, others died and others are assumed to be alive and are being negotiated in exchange for a truce that has not yet been successful.
But the international community is also asking Netanyahu for a gesture, a ceasefire to avoid more deaths, which he has not yet granted.