Argentina designates Hamas a terror group July 14, 2024 Argentinian President Javier Milei and Israeli President Isaac Herzog tour in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, February 8, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)(Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)Argentina designates Hamas a terror group Tweet WhatsApp Email https://worldisraelnews.com/argentina-designates-hamas-a-terror-group/ Email Print Buenos Aires ‘has an unwavering commitment to recognize terrorists for what they are,’ read the statement. By JNS Argentina has designated Hamas an “international terrorist organization” following the Palestinian group’s Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis. “The Hamas group has been declared by the Argentine state as an international terrorist organization,” President Javier Milei said on Friday night, citing “an extensive record of terrorist attacks on their behalf.” Buenos Aires “has an unwavering commitment to recognize terrorists for what they are,” read the statement, adding that “it’s the first time that there is a political will to do so. “Argentina must once again align itself with Western civilization,” said Milei’s office. The statement also mentioned Hamas’s “link” to Iran, which masterminded the deadly attacks on the Israeli embassy in the Argentine capital in 1992 and then the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center there two years later.Read WATCH: IDF troops discover Hamas tunnel inside children's room In February, Milei made a wartime visit to Israel, signaling a major shift in Argentina’s foreign policy toward the United States and Israel after decades of backing Arab countries. An unabashedly public philo-semite who studies with a rabbi, Milei has repeatedly pledged to move the Argentine embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a further sign of friendship, Milei appointed his rabbi, Axel Wahnish, as Argentina’s ambassador to Israel. An iconoclast and political outsider, Milei was elected in November amid a burgeoning economic crisis and skyrocketing inflation that has long beleaguered the large South American country. A week after his election victory, he visited the United States for government meetings, stopping at the grave in New York of Lubavitcher Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, his third such visit last year. His staunch support for Israel both ditches decades of unequivocal backing for Arab countries in the predominantly Catholic Latin American nation under both left- and right-wing governments and contrasts with neighboring Brazil, whose leftist leader, President Lula da Silva, has been highly critical of Israel’s war against Hamas.Read WATCH: Hamas footage of attacks on Jewish homes and vehicles in Samaria ArgentinaHamasjavier milei