Four actors are present on the stage of the drama which unfolds before us in this well-researched and captivatingly written work, and two more are hidden behind the scenery but are most influential: the governments of Argentina and of Israel, the Jews of Argentina and Argentine general society, and American Jewry and the U. S. government. The author leads us very skillfully from the first act—Argentina’s 1947 vote on Resolution 181 of the UN General Assembly, known as the “Plan of Partition with an Economic Union” of Palestine, which enabled the establishment of the State of Israel—through Juan Domingo Peron’s relations with Israel and with Argentine Jewry, to the last act, namely the capture in Argentina of the top organizer of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, and his trial in Jerusalem (1960-62). One of the author’s basic arguments is that all the five presidents who occupied the Casa Rosada during these...
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