Title: Calling for justice and accountability for the perpetrators of the bombing of the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution urges the government of Argentina to bring the perpetrators of the March 17, 1992, terrorist attack on the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires to justice (in 1999 the Supreme Court of Argentina found that the transnational terrorist organization Hezbollah was responsible for the attack).
The resolution commends the Argentinian government for designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and urges other U.S. allies and partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to do the same.
The resolution urges these allies and partners to condemn and counter regional governments in the hemisphere that aid and abet Iran and Hezbollah.
The resolution also commends the Argentinian government for adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism and encourages other partners and allies to do the same.
Finally, the resolution commends the Secretary General of the Organization of American States for appointing a Commissioner to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in the Western Hemisphere.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 988 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 988

  Calling for justice and accountability for the perpetrators of the 
  bombing of the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2022

 Ms. Salazar (for herself, Mr. Kustoff, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, 
Mr. Deutch, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Steube, Mr. Van Drew, 
 Mr. Johnson of Louisiana, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Kinzinger, Mr. Waltz, Mr. 
 McClintock, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, Mr. Lamborn, 
   Ms. Wild, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. 
Porter, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Mooney, Ms. Titus, Mr. 
 Gimenez, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Rutherford, Ms. 
   Lofgren, Mr. Fleischmann, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. 
 Gibbs, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Norman, Ms. Meng, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Sires, 
  Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. LaMalfa, Mrs. Cammack, Mr. 
 Biggs, Mr. Costa, Mrs. Kim of California, Mrs. Rodgers of Washington, 
  Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mrs. Luria, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. 
  Joyce of Ohio, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Budd, Ms. Brownley, Mr. 
 Gohmert, Mr. Rose, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Raskin, 
Mrs. McClain, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Issa, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. 
 Stevens, Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Posey, Mr. Trone, Mr. 
 O'Halleran, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Young, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. Owens, Mr. 
 McKinley, Mr. Garcia of California, Mrs. Lee of Nevada, Mr. Mast, Mr. 
 Burchett, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mrs. Lesko, Ms. Slotkin, Mr. Cole, 
   Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Long, Mr. LaTurner, Mrs. Demings, Ms. 
 Manning, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Auchincloss, Mr. Peters, Mr. 
    Williams of Texas, Mr. Meijer, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Wenstrup, Ms. 
   Stefanik, Ms. Letlow, Mr. Ferguson, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Griffith, Mr. 
Donalds, and Mr. Fallon) submitted the following resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Calling for justice and accountability for the perpetrators of the 
  bombing of the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992.

Whereas, 30 years ago, on March 17, 1992, the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires, 
        Argentina, was the target of a horrific terrorist suicide bombing;
Whereas Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack in which 29 were 
        murdered, including Israeli diplomats, their relatives, and numerous 
        Argentines, including children from a nearby school;
Whereas 242 people were seriously wounded in the attack, including some who were 
        unable to recover from their injuries;
Whereas, in 1999, the Supreme Court of Argentina found that the transnational 
        terrorist organization Hezbollah was responsible for the bombing and 
        issued an arrest warrant for the arrest of Hezbollah commander Imad 
        Mughnieh;
Whereas 2 years after the bombing of the Embassy of Israel in Argentina, on July 
        18, 1994, 85 people were killed in a similar Hezbollah terrorist attack 
        on the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires;
Whereas Hezbollah operatives planned both attacks in the triborder area of 
        Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay;
Whereas evidence demonstrates that the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world's 
        leading state sponsor of terrorism, facilitated and financed the 
        execution of these terrorist attacks;
Whereas the culprits of these heinous attacks have never been brought to 
        justice; and
Whereas Argentina is home to a thriving Jewish community, the largest in Latin 
        America: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) urges the Government of Argentina to bring the 
        perpetrators of the March 17, 1992, terrorist attack to 
        justice;
            (2) commends the Government of Argentina for designating 
        Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and urges other United 
        States allies and partners in Latin America and the Caribbean 
        to do the same;
            (3) urges United States allies and partners in Latin 
        America and the Caribbean to condemn and counter regional 
        governments in the hemisphere that aid and abet Iran and 
        Hezbollah;
            (4) commends the Government of Argentina for adopting the 
        International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition 
        of antisemitism and encourages other partners and allies to do 
        the same; and
            (5) commends the Secretary General of the Organization of 
        American States for appointing a Commissioner to Monitor and 
        Combat Anti-Semitism in the Western Hemisphere.
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