Israel will declassify documents relating to its relations with Argentina during that country’s military junta. Israel was known to have sold weapons to Argentina during the dictatorship of 1976-1982, when thousands of opponents of the Argentine government “disappeared.” Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not explain its decision or specify what documents would be made public, Ha’aretz reported.
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