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The Jerusalem Post: Why Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, by Irwin Cotler

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“Yesterday was the first anniversary of the terrorist bombing of a tourist bus in Bulgaria, killing five Israelis and one Belgian, and wounding dozens more. Bulgarian authorities have confirmed – yet again – Hezbollah’s responsibility for the terror attack – with two of the Hezbollah operatives being Western citizens – a Canadian and an Australian – and have transmitted evidence of Hezbollah terrorist complicity to European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels next Monday to determine whether Hezbollah should be designated as a terrorist organization.

In an eerie but not unrevealing coincidence, the Bulgarian bombing took place on the 18th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center (AMIA) in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 87 people and injured more than 300 – and which the Argentinean minister of justice described to me as the greatest atrocity in Argentina since the end of the Second World War.”

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