Brazilian police foiled a terror attack last week against Jewish targets after a tip from Israel’s spy agency, Mossad. Two members of Hezbollah were arrested.
The news of the plot comes in a region that saw horrific bombings in 1992 and 1994 of the Israeli embassy and a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Both the work of Hezbollah and Iran.
Dr. R. Evan Ellis, a Latin American specialist at the US Army War College, says that during a time of war in the Middle East, the growing influence of Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America creates not only a strategic threat to the United States but a danger for Latin America’s Jewish community.
“If what is happening in the Middle East right now heats up into a hot war between the United States and Iran. One can expect that Iran will seek to mobilize its proxy networks, Hezbollah, and others throughout the hemisphere. And so, it’s not unthinkable that numerous attacks that could be undertaken against both Israeli and Jewish community targets and U.S. targets,” Ellis said.
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