Victor Zajdenberg (Buenos Aires, 26/06/2024)

Translated from original Spanish

“I prefer to see the Jewish star on Israeli tanks rather than sewn onto clothing as it was in 1944.” — Imre Kertész (Nobel Prize in Literature 2002)

Cambalache is the title of a tango composed by Enrique Santos Discépolo in 1934, 90 years ago, sung by the incomparable Carlos Gardel, who died on June 24, 1935, in a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia.

The word “cambalache” refers to a place or situation where disorder, noise, and confusion significantly prevail. It fits perfectly in any era, although this time we will refer to the 21st century, in which we are living, reflected in the beginning of this tango that says: “The world was and always will be a mess, I already know,” and ends with: “It’s the same, the one who kills or the one who heals, or the one who is outside the law.”

For Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN); Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union (EU); Pedro Sánchez, President of Spain; Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC); Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa; directors bribed by petrodollars, militant professors, and a portion of the naive students of the supposedly renowned universities in the United States, it is the same “the one who kills, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., as the one who heals, the State of Israel with its modern and efficient health centers and its countless scientific discoveries for the health of its inhabitants and the entire world.”

Cambalache is the “Defense Treaty” between Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Kim Jong-Un, hereditary communist dictator who, along with his father and grandfather, murdered millions of people.

Cambalache is the “Peace Summit” held in Switzerland without the presence of Russia, one of the parties involved in the Ukraine War; without China, a crucial ally of Russia; and with the refusal to sign the Declaration by essential countries like Brazil, Saudi Arabia, India, Mexico, and others.

Cambalache is the inflation that has occurred in the USA and the EU due to the issuance of 250 billion dollars and euros in the unnecessary and dreadful war being waged in Ukraine since February 2022, to sustain a confrontation in which neither the West nor Ukraine has gained any benefit. On the contrary, Ukraine is in great military, territorial, and human difficulties.

Cambalache is allowing the death, injury, and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of young people on both sides of the Ukrainian frontline to strip them of their youth and life.

Cambalache is being very concerned about the aggressors from Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon (proxies and hitmen of the Iranian theocracy) instead of openly and justly supporting the Israeli victims, those attacked on 7/10 in southern Israel by the savage cannibals of Hamas, and the continuous bombardment in the North that has displaced hundreds of thousands of inhabitants from their homes.

Cambalache are feminists defending machists; LGBTQ+ supporting homophobes; atheists justifying Islamists; anarchists praising repressors; and Trotskyists favoring millionaires.

Only the hatred and envy towards the State of Israel and the Jews can achieve this unimaginable and perverse magic. As Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the OEA, said, “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”