Jerusalem said what it wanted to say about the Argentinean-Iranian agreement to
establish a “truth committee” to investigate the 1994 AMIA bombing, and will now
avoid getting into a nasty public “ping-pong” with Buenos Aires over the matter,
a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
The spokesman’s comment
came after Buenos Aires responded angrily to Israel’s summoning of its
ambassador to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, where Israel protested the
move.
The Argentinean Foreign Ministry issued a statement slamming
Israel’s protest, saying that summoning the ambassador was “improper” and
“against the traditional, friendly relationship” between the two
countries.
“The attack against the people of our country on July 18,
1994, did not involve any Israeli citizen,” the statement read. “The victims
were mostly Argentines and included six Bolivians, two Poles and one
Chilean.”
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