Don't Cry For Jacobo Timerman
Varon, Benno Weiser
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...It would have been highly imprudent for Timerman to provoke the authorities with a false claim while still in their hands...
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...It dealt, I should almost say of course, with the business association between Timerman and Graiver...
...Never heard of it...
...This procedure was of course hardly democratic, but it was monumentally different from that of Nazi Germany where Jews were arrested, put into concentration camps, and eventually gassed because they were Jews...
...So much for the alleged heroics of La Opinion and its publisher...
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...I found nothing damaging in this story...
...I quote from that article: Enter David Graiver, at the time 35, a fast-rising star in Argentinian, Belgian and American banking circles...
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...His military friends could not come to his rescue because of their unspeakable suspicion that he had something to do with the alleged Graiver-Montoneros 22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1981 dealings...
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...Unexpected, I suppose, for Timerman too...
...This is a much simpler explanation than many of those being spun by Timerman's critics...
...Do any of these revelations detract from Timerman's ordeal or from the grave injustice committed against him...
...Each officer of a military region had his own prisoners, prisons and form of justice, and even the central power was unable to request the freedom of an individual when importuned by international pressure...
...Nevertheless I found some of the questions put to Timerman by his interrogators even more outrageous than the alleged torture and it seemed to me astonishing that the questioners could be so blind and so stupid...
...Prisoner is a shattering denunciation of Argentina, an ear-piercing outcry against its military caste gone berserk, an anguished vision of what may 'Alfred A. Knopf, $10.95...
...But strangely enough the bulk of Argentina's Jewry (which in principle sympathized with the anti-guerrilla campaign) did not and does not feel endangered...
...Timerman by reporting what I had learned on a visit to Argentina in the summer of 1979: The cause for Timerman's arrest was his unfortunate business association with David Graiver...
...Clandestine prisons are one thing...
...Benno Weiser Varon lived as a newspaperman in Latin America and returned there years later as Ambassador of Israel...
...They're carefully printed on expensive paper stock...
...The fact is that he spent half a year in two legal and three clandestine prisons...
...Timerman's book contains many of the questions asked by his torturers, but none about Graiver...
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...I don't suspect Timerman of having invented the horrors he describes, such as the torturing of prisoners in full view of their families...
...There is no doubt that anti-Semitism is alive and well in Argentina...
...No author I can think of has been quoted so profusely, written about so extensively, or lionized so extravagantly in the first few weeks after the publication of his book...
...Jacobo Timerman, publisher of the Buenos Aires daily La Opinion, was arrested in April 1977, by order of one of Argentina's "warlords...
...Whether the accusation against Graiver was right or wrong, there was no reason why Timerman should have known of Graiver's deals other than his interest in La Opinion...
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...A Council of War then decided that his arrest was baseless and recommended his re lease...
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...Perhaps, but that's not all...
...Unfortunately this omission is deliberate and willful, and that it is so is decisive for my evaluation-not of the book, but of the man...
...In Rome, a former associate of Timerman declared that a few days before his arrest Timerman expressed a premonition that he would be arrested due to the Graiver scandal, while in Israel Timerman himself protested to the New York Times that he had never claimed to have been arrested because he was a Jew (an impression that nevertheless was assiduously fostered in the campaign for his release...
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...This was no secret in Buenos Aires, but common knowledge...
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...Prisoner Without a Name is an extremely well-written book and parts of it are truly moving...
...The tape did not include the beginning of the session...
...Argentina's wealthiest guerrilla movement which financed its operations by ransoms extracted from kidnapped business tycoons...
...On one single Sunday the New York Times carried six different articles on Timerman, none of them short, including one written by Timerman himself...
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...This was the case of the Argentine military government...
...The New York Banking Commissioner dis covered that the American Bank & Trust Company, with irregularities and losses to the tune of 850 million, was bankrupt...
...There is no chronological sequence in Prisoner and so the reader may not be able to guess whatt happened when, or how long the different phases of Timerman'$ ordeal lasted...
...But only now is the analysis complete...
...I shall later explain why I am not at all certain that the narrative is 100 percent factual...
...He initially refused and told the woman who contacted him: "Let them first interrogate those whom the Montoneros kidnapped...
...Besides the narrative about Timerman's ordeal, the book contains a wide range of observations dealing with Argentina, the Jewish fate, in general and in Argentina, and the nature of terrorism of the Right and the Left...
...Benno Weiser Varon DON'T CRY FOR JACOBO TIMERMAN The weaseled words of Prisoner JVithout A Name Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number' reminds me of the story about the woman who, asked about the enormous solitaire she wears, explains: "This is the famous Goldstein diamond...
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...authoritarianism, for which the Timerman affair has become a kind of litmus test, one thing is being overlooked: There exist authoritarian governments that lack authority...
...Only the grimness of the subject may explain why in spite of all the hullabaloo the book did not immediately make the bestseller list...
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...But dramatization would mean distortion, enough distortion perhaps to explain why, unlike Timerman claims to be, Argentina's Jews are not a bit worried about an impending Holocaust...
...A showoff...
...For instance, when he describes how in jail he wanted to write a book about his wife's eyes: Which poet should he emulate...
...And though Timerman tries to hint otherwise, Jews were not arrested in Argentina because they are Jews...
...It always has been, yet it did not prevent Timerman-who arrived as a child from the Ukraine and spent his childhood in the Buenos Aires equivalent of a Lower East Side slumfrom becoming a powerful and wealthy newspaper publisher...
...The name Graiver is completely expurgated...
...And so you will believe me when I say that danger of a holocaust in Argentina also exists...
...Then sit down and listen to what I have to tell you about the holocaust which the Jews of Argentina are facing...
...Cox said essentially the same things to me...
...A Shcharansky or a Solzhenitsyn might have the moral stature to say such things...
...This may be meant to convey: Never heard of Mircea Eliade...
...I am, if not the, at least a bete noire of the Timerman camp...
...Finally, the Supreme Court reviewed the case and demanded that he be set free...
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...In the spring of 1977 the Graiver bubble burst...
...The question may be asked: So what...
...They are Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius...
...In other words: Prisoner is an important, extremely well-conceived, and even extraordinary book...
...Whether this was intended as a boast or a confession, Timerman comes through as a godfather of the revolution that would devour him a year later...
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...Though I would not include this claim in the same category with those of pseudo-historians who deny the Holocaust ever occurred, I am not inclined to believe the Colonel...
...Graiver owned 45% of La Opinion...
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...Argentina, I too was astonished that in his book Jacobo Timerman made no mention of David Graiver who was his friend and financial backer...
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...Timerman loathes them for it, and they loathe Timerman for pointing to a danger, which they believe does not exist, in order to promote his book at their expense...
...But another Timerman supporter-in fact a Timerman colleague-Robert Cox, expatriate publisher of the Buenos Aires Herald, had a different reaction...
...In 1976 La Opinion exhorted the military to stage a coup against Isabel Pron...
...This produced a hectic scrambling in the Timerman camp...
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...It undermines the faith which the reader, unaware of this detail, might have had in the absolute veracity of the book...
...Nor would it necessarily have to, had not the political establishment of America's Left-for reasons that have nothing to do with worries about the well-being of Argentina's Jewry -made a cult out of its author...
...In a private conversation with me a few days later, Cox elaborated that this was an allusion to the Fraser Committee which at the time was investigating human rights violations in Argentina...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick of using semantics "the way Hitler used semantics...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1981 19 That's why all the international appeals on behalf of Timerman, the imprisoned newspaper publisher, were ineffective, at least for the first two and a half years...
...Why this character-buildup for a crook...
...Occasionally Timerman clobbers us with his erudition...
...For it is irrelevant whether Graiver was a swindler or another Captain Dreyfus...
...Reagan The winner was known within hours...
...So here was an innocent man who had suffered humiliation, anguish, and torture and in the process witnessed the hairraising cruelties of Argentina's parallelgovernment, a "government" that consisted of: military leaders [who organized] their personal domains, each one becoming a warlord in the zone under his control, whereupon the chaotic, anarchistic, irrational terrorism of the Left and the Fascist deathsquads [which had prompted the military to overthrow the legitimate but disastrous government of Juan Domingo Pe ron's widow, Isabel] gave way to intrinsic, systemized, rationally played terrorism...
...What this particular reader would like to have had explained is how he could have visited Argentina in those years without even noticing this murderous . free-for-all...
...For (PLEASE PRINT) Co2D4M THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1981 z1 for the obliteration of Graiver in Prisoner Without a Name: Mention ing Graiver and Timerman's connection with him would have erased the carefully nurtured impression that Timerman was jailed for his courageous editorials...
...Rather, those who were arrested were suspected by the military, rightly or wrongly, of belonging to or sympathizing with the leftist guerrillas whom the military had sworn to destroy...
...Would this change the basic thrust of his message...
...It's at the latter that tortures are performed...
...What's the gorse...
...I have my doubts...
...But then Timerman comes to the rescue: "The problem is not merely that I find it difficult to explain Argentina in comprehensible terms to outsiders, but I myself perhaps am unable to understand her...
...I likewise dismissed Paul Eluard, Claudel was unadaptable, and Aragon didn't especially impress me...
...Walden by Thoreau...
...Only under duress, when confronted with a few things I said in an article "Don't Rescue Latin American Jews" (Midstream, December 1980), did one of Timerman'$ sidekicks, Rabbi Morton Rosenthal of the AntiDefamation League of the B' nai B'rith, call that article "rubbish" (as reported in the New York Times...
...But we don't have to take his word for it, just as we don't have to accept the anti-Semitic stereotype that Jews are cowards and cheats...
...May I be forgiven this minority report...
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...What distorts the book is a puzzling omission, and he who is not aware of it will put the book down filled with sympathy and admiration...
...Because this would imply that Timerman is another Dante...
...When I was in Buenos Aires and Timerman was still in house arrest, I heard the allegation that he had been tortured...
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...He would probably feel the same sympathy and only a fraction less of the admiration if there were no such omission...
...There remained of course, the poets of my youth: Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, and the Spaniards Miguel Hernandez and Luis Cernuda...
...when tortured, Jewish men were tortured more severely, to the accompaniment of anti-Semitic insults...
...Immediately preceding this quotation attributed to Cox, the Boston Globe traced a profile of Timerman which in all probability was also drawn by Cox: Never an ideologue [Timerman] had friends in the military...
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...But once I became aware of Timerman's manipulation of his readers through the omission of any reference to Graiver, what before had seemed to me merely astonishing tended to appear rather unbelievable, improbable, or dubious...
...Had the author invented the tortures and the "terrorist sensuality" and the "eroticism of violence" which he attributes to the Argentinian brand of sadists, it would be an even greater feat than his surviving them...
...After Graiver's death the Argentine authorities found out, or came to suspect, that Graiver had also been the investment broker of the Mon toneros...
...The Dreyfus routine came up during an impromptu interview at New York's Hotel Carlyle conducted by an editor of the Wall Street Journal Seth Lipsky, who asked Timerman point-blank about his connection with Graiver...
...There is similar pedantry when he describes the various terror ist factions...
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...Prisoner even describes how this coup was hatched in the editorial offices of his newspaper...
...At the time Graiver was in the process of acquiring full control of the bank which had advanced him for this purpose a loan of 818 million...
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...Yet since the capacity to doubt is a basic ingredient of civilization I also doubted the justification of my doubts...
...But why should the president of the War Council, which after all absolved Timerman, also have behaved like a Nazi...
...Then something unexpected happened...
...I may return any book, for full credit within 21 no money now...
...Once Graiver's name was injected into the controversy, Timerman found it necessary to come to the support of his dead partner...
...three of the wisest, wittiest, most stimulating minds that ever lived...
...as for Vladimir Mayakovsky, he seemed overly Russian in his love poems to Lila Brick and too verbose...
...And what if Timerman dramatized a bit...
...The New York Times reported from Buenos Aires that tapes of the Timerman interrogations had been made available...
...I managed to get hold of one of those tapes...
...I don't believe it contains the gospel truth...
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...Anti-Semitism is an Argentine fact of life and should be exposed by all means...
...Such fury must have been earned, and I shall soon explain how...
...Who wouldn't feel like a complete dumbbell if confronted with such a display of poetic knowledge, which is obviously only a sideline of the political journalist...
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...This was common knowledge in Argentina, yet Timerman did not want his American readers to share in this knowledge because such knowledge would convert him from daring champion of human rights into a bank swindler's fall guy...
...It was the fourth biggest bank bankruptcy in America's financial history...
...And though I stand in awe before his brilliance, there is a limit to my line of credit for Jacobo Timerman...
...even thought of him as cynical because he seemed ready to lend some support to whatever group was in power...
...I am perfectly willing to accept Timerman's claim that the torturers and interrogators in the clandestine pris ons behaved like Nazis...
...He also told me something I had already heard from other sources...
...He didn't suffer for anything he did...
...A case in point is that the president of the War Council should have started every session with the same inane question, "Are you a Jew...
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...Judged as such, without the intrusion of the personality of its author, I might have joined in the raves...
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...Although he claims that he doesn't know why he was arrested, and that he was never told why, he also offers the suggestion that the daring postures of La Opinion might have antagonized the military...
...Whereupon even the loyal Times commented that the credibility of Timerman was at stake...
...You never have to buy any of these books...
...But it would have been a complete non sequitur, an utter dissonance, if each segment of this perfectly urbane and professional interrogation had been introduced with the president asking, obnoxiously, idiotically, "Are you a Jew...
...Most of these remarks are interesting, though in some cases only a handful of people worldwide could judge whether they are correct...
...The man who arrested Timerman, Colonel Ramon J. Camps, former chief of police of the area of Buenos Aires, announced in early July that he is writing a book that will contend that Timerman himself was never tortured...
...whereupon I recalled Federico Garcia Lorca's style in "Poet in New York...
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...But it was, and the powerful Timerman clique and claque now calls any reference to it "character assassination...
...Graiver were interrogated...
...By the way, though Timerman was innocent of whatever he was accused, he was not innocent of complicity in the military power grab...
...Charles's Mother can still compel respect, but whether he himself will survive the malice of those evil tempered witches who reversed the fairy tale by refusing to come to the weddingor whether British Royalty, like those dusty mugs and plates in the antique shops, will sink in this turbulent century and become a souvenir of things long gone-is an uneasy question to echo in St...
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...The idea is to tell the reader: You miserable, halfwitted ignoramus, look what I know, and then dare to contradict my conclusions...
...But there is a marked difference between Graiver and . Dreyfus and even between Do you have room in your home for three wise men...
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...It's a great book, written by a journalist who as a newspaper publisher in Buenos Aires combined stellar writing talent with superb business acumen...
...Obviously he was all along innocent of whatever caused his arrest, for had the military judges of the War Council found a single shred of evidence against him, they would not have decided that his detention was "baseless...
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...La Opinion carried more re ports about the wave of "disappearances,'' but never made a major issue of them...
...Timerman is a publisher's dream...
...a few lines by Mao Zedong might trigger off the assassination of a businessman in a Buenos Aires suburb...
...I earned the above-mentioned epithets from Timerman and his associate by calling attention to the forbidden fruit...
...Interested...
...He condemned the 'anti-Argentina' campaign abroad, and at one point even offered to go to the United States to condemn it...
...Irving Kristol read my Midstream piece, and in his subsequent Wall Street Journal article that started the ongoing Timerman controversy, he termed the non-mention of Graiver an "extraordinary omission," which promptly sent the New York Times's Anthony Lewis into near-apoplectic fits...
...A rgentina is far away, and to be perfectly frank Latin America bores the American reader...
...Graiver's family was arrested, and so was a quasi-member of his family, his business partner Jacobo Timerman...
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...The left-wing leaders of the Greater London Council ostentatiously and sneeringly refused their invitation to the Royal Wedding, having as they said, "better things to do for the people who demo cratically elected us...
...Only a few months before [Timerman] was arrested, he was supporting the government totally...
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...The questioning was not even hostile...
...whether he was indeed the launderer of the Montoneros's ransom monies...
...Untold thousands of desaparecidos are a convincing testimony to the bestiality of Argentina's clandestine torture chambers...
...Everything was civilized, matter of fact, business-like...
...Prisoner is a remarkable book...
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...Timerman hands out epithets of "fascist" to American and Israeli leaders and accuses Mrs...
...Sometime before his arrest, a delegation from Amnesty International wanted to interview Timerman about "disappearances...
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...He compared him with Captain Dreyfus, with whom he, Timerman, had also been compared...
...in the Five Great Dialogues of Plato, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and Aristotle's On Man in the Universe...
...Unfortunately, some cold water was thrown on this explanation by a statement attributed to the aforementioned Timerman partisan Robert Cox and included in an otherwise sympathetic interview with Timerman in the Boston Globe...
...Lefebre might be as useful as Heidegger...
...Unfortunately, the omission of the Graiver factor ramifies in many other ways as well...
...The gorilla Generals wanted to arrest the judges of the Supreme Court, but Presi dent Videla threatened to resign and a compromise "solution" was found: Timerman was set free, but expelled from Argentina to Israel, stripped of his citizenship and of his assets...
...It never occurred to me that this story would be left out of Timerman's book on his arrest and prison experience...
...Timerman has decreed that they are cowards and fools...
...They still live...
...I was not interested in business details...
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...The reader may be ready to throw in the towel after reading an enumeration of several hundred categories of terrorists operating in Argentina, of which some kill their own comrades ("Peronists assassinating Peronists, the military assassinating the mili tary, union members assassinating union members, students other students, policemen other policemen...
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...What matters is: Without a shadow of a doubt Graiver was Timerman's partner in La Opinion and this partnership, combined with the suspicion-correct or incorrect-that Graiver was the banker of the Montoneros, caused Timerman's arrest...
...Yes, once Jews descended into the Argentinian Hades, the antiSemitism of their torturers added to their ordeal...
...Timerman himself called me "a nobody"-but in a closed meeting...
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