Thirty years later, the wound is still open

On a day like today, exactly three decades ago, a brutal terrorist attack destroyed the headquarters of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people.

The horror of terrorism was brutally present in the early afternoon hours of 17 March 1992. It was then that we discovered that no corner of the world, however far away, was sure of the atrocities of the barbarism of international terrorism.

A reality that came back two years later, when another terrorist attack, this time against AMIA, ended the lives of 85 other people.

Thirty years later, those of us who keep alive the conviction that civilization is an apprenticeship are forced to remember a wound that remains open and has not been closed until today.

It is imperative to keep the memory alive, never forget the victims of terrorism and their families, and comply with the requirements set forth in Law 27,417 adopted at the end of 2017, which declares March 17 as the Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with the Victims of the Attack on the Israeli Embassy and which establishes the need to remember such barbarism, especially in the school environment.

Similarly, we must not stop condemning those who organized, planned and perpetrated that heinous attack, as well as extend that condemnation to regimes promoting terrorism, hatred and promoting the destruction of the State of Israel, such as the one dominated by the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979.

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