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Jacobo Timer man, author of Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number and The Longest War, Israel in Lebanon, spent two years imprisoned and tortured in Argentina for being Jewish and an outspoken, leftist journalist. Because of this outspokenness and his political, beliefs. Timer man was welcomed back into the Jewish community after his release with an outpouring of derision from the Argentinean and American Jewish establishments. It has been especially embarrassing, as an American Jew, to see Jewish authorities apparently join the United States government in its distinction between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" states when it comes to Jewish...
Latin Americans felt betrayed last spring when the U.S. eventually supported Britain in its war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Last week's trip was at least obliquely an attempt to erase lingering resentment. All four countries Reagan visited are fiscally wobbly, Brazil most prominently. There Reagan reassured Figueiredo that the U.S. is not about to let Brazil's precarious economy, the world's tenth largest, collapse. Reagan also went south to reaffirm his Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua...
...State George Shultz and other officials from both governments for an additional hour of discussion. Said a Brazilian official: "The conversations were very candid and yet very gentle." The Falklands, Shultz said, "didn't come up as a matter of dispute." In fact, Brazil only halfheartedly supported Argentina in the war, mostly out of a sense of continental solidarity...
Before he got into trouble in Argentina. Timerman was ostensibly a journalist Judging by The Longest War, his current profession is conscience mercenary. That is, if a prospect of profit exists. Timerman will suffer, feel awful and decry all injustice. With sweeping flourishes. Timerman is a kin of prose Whitman who sympathizes with almost everything, "weeping dolefully" for the events in Lebanon and the decline of moral Israel. He does this by pretending he is an insider, a native with a bona fide claim to all the world's ills. He declares without hesitation that since his first reading...
PRESUMABLY, THIS INTIMACY with everything from the Armenian genocide to Dachau to Hiroshima to Cambodia confers on Timerman the right to suffer anywhere he please. Hence not quite three years after his expulsion from Argentina, he is a leading authority on Israel, having resided there in the interim. Countless sentences include the magisterial phrasing "We Israelis..." despite the fact that, as he readily confesses. "I have never been able to learn Hebrew...