Talk:Jacobo Timerman
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[edit] Re: Spelling
it's Timerman, not Timmerman. please change the title.
- It's been fixed. --(Mingus ah um 01:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC))
RE: Timerman was no hero
I had to straighten up the record. Timerman helped destroy democracy in Argentina by his relentless campaing agaisnt President Arturo Illia, and by praising the future dictator, Ongania. He did an immense harm to his country, and if anyoe deserve to be tortured, it was him.
I see that you insist on whitewashing him.
Those of us who can rememember how much we lost on the 28th of june of 1966 will not forget how you lie with history.
[edit] Ben Nathan
This is a patronymic that is never to be used outside a religious context.
Many Israelis (and some non-Israeli Jews) have adopted a surname that is actually a patronymic (such as Ben-Eliezer), then the surname is passed on to children and grandchildren just like any other surname. (The usage of the patronymic as a person's surname in the Arabic-speaking world is different, and more consistent with the usual definition of a patronymic.)
Timerman used the patronymic as part of his full name in the intro to this book, but it was just for dramatic effect. It was never part of his "civil" name, neither in Argentina nor in Israel (where both the patronymic and the matronymic are used for religious purposes, but are not used as part of a person's name on the state-issued formal ID).
