Dear Safranim, There are many facts that you should know about this issue: 1. The military government in 1976-2003 was anti Semitic. 2. In the democratic Peronist government before the coup d'etat, there were also very strong anti Semitic trends. 3. In general the Jewish community haven't suffer from an anti Semitic policy in the dictatorship years and their activities flourished. 4. In general people were not kidnapped or jailed because being Jewish but they suffer twice or more tortures and violations for their Jewishness. 5. Timmerman was indeed a "desaparecido" but world pressure leaded by Israel helped to save him. He was released from domiciliary prison [last stage of his detention] thanks to the intervention of Israel which received him as "ole chadash". His attitude after his release is very controversial. There are many publications about him, his personality, etc. One of them: Graciela Mochkofsky, Timerman - El periodista que quiso ser parte del poder (1923-1999) [ISBN 950-07-2420-0]. I don't know if it has been translated into English.
As I have told you in many occasions, in Israel acted a Interministerial Commission for the Disappeared in 2000-2003, and its Final Report, with all the testimonies and many other material is in the following webpage which I edited [Hebrew and Spanish]: www.mfa.gov.il/desaparecidos If somebody has questions, please feel free to contact me. Shabat shalom, Efraim Dr. Efraim Zadoff 183 Derech Hahoresh Jerusalem 97278 tel. 972-2-5865596 fax. 972-2-5860829 P.O.Box 23526 Jerusalem 91234 www.holocaustoenciclopedia.blogspot.com www.judaismo-enciclopedia.blogspot.com Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
