Last Friday, Clarín published a note in which it reported that Rabbi Axel Wahnish , Argentine ambassador to Israel, settled in Jerusalem and not in Tel Aviv, where our country's diplomatic headquarters is located.
“Contrary to the promises made by Foreign Minister Diana Mondino to the Argentine Senate, Rabbi Axel Wahnish has already settled in the most select area of Jerusalem ,” reported Clarín , adding: “It is historic and controversial that the Argentine Republic’s residence to the State of Israel is operating there for the first time. Wahnish not only lives there as a representative of Javier Milei’s government: for now he does not go to the Embassy located in Tel Aviv, according to what this newspaper found out from those who frequent and live in that country.”
It is worth remembering that, at first, it was the president himself, Javier Milei , who had announced that he would move the Argentine embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem . But then, when asked about the issue in a presentation before senators, the foreign minister, Diana Mondino , said that Wahnish would be installed in Tel Aviv .
For its part, the news portal Frente a Cano consulted the former deputy and former official of the Foreign Ministry, Guillermo Carmona , who maintained that what was confirmed by the journalist Natasha Niebieskikwiat , on the one hand, breaks with what was promised by Mondino in the Senate and, on the other, violates a national law that dates back to the first government of Juan Domingo Perón that established the Argentine Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv .
“The Clarín note says that Wahnish's ambassador is already residing and carrying out activities in Jerusalem, which means that it is not only a matter of a decision on expenses that the Foreign Ministry is facing to establish the ambassador's residence and activities there in Jerusalem, but also that this is in open contradiction to Mondino's commitment and to what is established by national law. It is a very serious fact ,” analyzed Carmona .
Carmona also stressed that resolution 478 of the United Nations Security Council is being violated, which established that Israel is in violation of its law by establishing its capital in East Jerusalem because it is a territory defined by the International Court of Justice itself as occupied in violation of international law. Based on this resolution, the United Nations, and therefore its members, including Argentina, do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The newspaper Clarín reported that: “Sources in the Argentine government acknowledged that it is the Foreign Ministry that pays the rent for the residence that (Wahnish) occupies, located at Benjamin Disraeli 8, just 15 minutes walk from the most luxurious hotel in Jerusalem, the King David. By order of the man who was Milei’s spiritual guide until December and is now the ambassador to Israel, the rental of the residence in Herzliya was stopped,” adding that “the area where it is now rented in the Holy City is one of the most expensive in Israel.” Apparently, for Milei’s spiritual leader, there is money.
“This situation implies that Argentina is officially violating with its decision the territorial integrity of Palestine, which claims those territories and violating the provisions of the United Nations in this regard ,” warned Carmona , who linked the situation with Argentina’s historic claim to the Malvinas Islands and the principle of territorial integrity. “This implies nothing more or less than ignoring the application in this conflict situation between Israel and Palestine of the principle of territorial integrity, which is the principle that Argentina has historically invoked in relation to its claim to the Malvinas.”
Carmona added that the aggravating factor is that installing the embassy in Jerusalem "puts all the Arab countries on the opposite side" and that it could have consequences for the political-diplomatic relationship, for the economic relationship and, above all, taking into account that this group of Arab countries supports Argentina in the United Nations for the Malvinas.
"The consequences of this are disastrous in terms of national interests in general, but particularly in relation to the Malvinas issue ," Carmona criticized.
For his part, the former governor of the province of Buenos Aires and former foreign minister, Felipe Sol á, warned from his account on the social network X that Wahnish “has settled de facto in Jerusalem” , highlighting that: “This behavior violates Perón's law 14025 and contradicts a UN resolution (in reference to 478)” .
Solá maintains that: “Mr. Axel Wahnish’s conduct endangers support for the Malvinas cause” , stating that among the countries aggrieved by such actions “are the BRICS, the Muslims (not only Arabs) and the Latin Americans. More than 80 votes in the UN” , adding that “the Decolonization Committee made the weakest resolution in 50 years and MERCOSUR did not even mention the issue” , ironically attributing these resounding failures to “the anti-national victories of @DianaMondino”.
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