Ismael Haiek
Jews of the Latin American Republics - Judith Laikin Elkin - Page 234 - University of North Carolina Press, 1980 Jews may be, and have been , appointed to high office; but once there, they become vulnerable to attack as Jews. The most active manipulators of anti-Semitic attitudes in recent years have been the cults centered around Nazi war criminals who found refuge in Latin America and Arab cadres who have forged a bond between Middle Eastern and Latin American guerrillas ... Ismael Jacinto Haiek, leader of a Montoneros commando cell in La Plata, is known to have been in contact with Yasir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . Such contacts are not limited to Argentines. When, in December 1978 , the PLO and Rejectionist Front offered their assistance to the Sandinista Front for the Liberation of Nicaragua, they issued a joint statement attacking "the racist state of Israel.” There...