Moshe Weinstein, news editor of the Spanish weekly El Tiempo published in Tel Aviv says he has received a number of complaints from Argentine Jewish leaders and ordinary citizens expressing concern about the possible repercussions following statements by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon about the future in the Falkland Islands.
Sharon told the United Jewish Appeal National Leadership Conference in Washington lost Saturday night that there are Jews in the Argentine army and probably in the British army. “Again Jews are fighting Jews in a war that does not belong to them,” he declared.
El Tiempo published an editorial this week charging Sharon with “audacity and arrogance” for allegedly denigrating “Jews of both armies who are fully convinced that this war is their country’s war since they identify themselves fully with the country for which they fight.”
Verbal tension has been reported from several kibbutzim which have members of both British and Argentinian origin.
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