El retorno de Perón al poder reflejado en la prensa israelí - Argentina, Israel y los judíos, 1973-74

Abstract

The return of Juan Perón to Argentina, after a prolonged exile, aroused hopes in this country of renewed political stability and economic growth. This article studies the images of Perón and Peronism in Israel during his third presidency. It also deals with the influence of the dramatic events taking place in Argentina on the local Jewish community and that country’s relations with the State of Israel, as they were perceived by the contemporary Hebrew press. By analyzing the articles and commentaries published in various Israeli dailies, the article traces the changes in the image of Perón between the 1950s and the 1970s. While this image was complex and far from unidimensional, in the 1970s it was certainly more negative. This had to do with stronger anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli voices within the Peronist movement, which identified with various liberation movements in the third world, as well as with a shift in Argentine foreign policy towards the Arabs in general, and the Palestinian cause in particular, in the Middle East conflict.