Do Irish Lives Matter? Letter to the Editor of the WSJ
Posted by Jim on January 22, 2015
Letters Editor
WALL STREET JOURNAL
1211Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
Dear Editor:
You rightly note alarm and skepticism over the untimely death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman (“A Troubling Death in Argentina” 1/20) who was investigating the 1994 Hezbollah/Iranian bombing of a Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires which killed 85. He alleged in 2013 the government of Cristina Kirchner was conspiring to whitewash that massacre with a “truth commission” as part of a diplomatic plea bargain with Iran.
In 1989 in Northern Ireland another officer of the court, solicitor Patrick Finucane, was murdered for being too good at his job representing the many victims of British security forces collusion with loyalist killers. Unlike the death of Mr. Nisman, Finucane’s death was neither lamented or editorialized by the WSJ despite the de Silva report confirming the collusion and citing “the governments sustained effort to defeat the ends of justice.”
Why the difference in your concern? The Thatcher government killed Finucane. But the 85 deaths in Buenos Aires were the work of Hezbollah and Iran. One demands you look the other way while the other yields a platitudinous call to not let “…the killers off the hook.” How long will Britain remain off the hook and unaccountable for their crimes? And why don’t Irish lives matter?
Sincerely,
Michael J. Cummings