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

Abstract

Resumen: durante la primera mitad de los años ’50, la imagen de Perón en Israel no era unidimensional sino compleja y multifacética. A comienzos de los ’70, esta imagen fue reemplazada por una más negativa. Este cambio tenía que ver con expresiones de posturas antisemitas y antiisraelíes, tanto en el ala derecha como en el ala izquierda del peronismo. Por otra parte, la política exterior argentina con respecto al conflicto en Medio Oriente comenzó a desplazarse gradualmente hacia lo que se percibía como posturas más favorables hacia los países árabes en general y hacia los palestinos en particular.

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.