Posted on 08/15/2013 9:51:50 PM PDT by TexGrill
JERUSALEM – A senior Israeli government official has posted online comments on Facebook saying he is “sick” of commemorations for the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, a local newspaper reported.
“I am sick of the Japanese, ‘Human rights’ and ‘Peace’ groups” over holding their “annual self-righteous commemorations for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims,” the Haaretz daily quoted Daniel Seaman, a deputy director general at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, as writing in his Facebook post.
Seaman, a key Israeli online public relations official, also wrote on the social networking site: “(The bombings of) Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the consequence of Japanese aggression. You reap what you sow.
“Instead, they should be commemorating the estimated 50 million Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Malay, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Burmese and other victims of Japanese imperial aggression and genocide.”
The Japanese Embassy in Tel Aviv immediately lodged a protest with the Israeli Foreign Ministry about Seaman’s post, which has already been deleted from Facebook.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
Aw, come on....Japan has paid their dues....I mean, how many times has Tokyo been destroyed by Godzilla?
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What he said. Those bombs saved my father’s life and the lives of millions of other allied soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, as well as millions of Japanese.
And filling its popeye subs with seamen?
He has a very good point
I guess it was easier to say you will fight to the last man, when your enemy doesn’t have the power to wipe you out without you getting a punch in.
I’ve been sick of that nonsense for decades. Almost as sick as I get every time congress apologizes for slavery.
Bergamani’s book is the best work on the war from the prospective of Japan.
For many years it was dissed by academic’s who were pro-japan and the emperor, but it has prevailed.
Great read..on of the key books on Japan and Asia for every scholar to study.
And he’s a deputy director general for diplomacy and the lead PR guy on the internet!!
I love it!
“Another post on May 26, referred to comments by Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, that Israel had a duty to return to its pre-1967 borders. “Is there a diplomatic way of saying ‘Go **** yourself?’” Mr Seaman wrote.”
I like this guy.
They blew up real good.
The Clint Eastwood movie, “Letters from Iwo Jima†starred many Japanese actors who played characters in the film. Eastwood found that virtually none of the Japanese actor knew the history of the Pacific War or Imperial Japan because it is NOT taught to school children and adults of that era will not speak about it. In order for the actors to understand and portray the Japanese fighters on Iwo Jima, these actors had to learn that history. They did and their performances showed it. Unfortunately, the general Japanese populace remains in near total ignorance.
So much for “History is written by the victors”!
“Instead, they should be commemorating the estimated 50 million Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Malay, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Burmese and other victims of Japanese imperial aggression and genocide.”
This statement is worth repeating.....
Apparently Daniel Seaman resents the Japanese competition for a place in the pantheon of victimology. The Jewish holocaust is the one and only example of man’s inhumanity to man. The Japanese do not teach their children about the atrocities committed by their government. This is wrong. They should agree to teach this subject as soon as the Chinese agree to teach their children about the 100 million killed by their own regime. Perhaps American children should be taught about the Morgenthau Plan and the U.S. government’s role in the 20th century slave trade. World War II propaganda has been so successful that it has endured for 70 years. The Japanese were subhumans who deserved everything they got. The bombs saved lives. No one considers an alternative: a more generous and farsighted negotiated peace. Had Japan been allowed to retain its position in Korea and Manchuria it is unlikely that the U.S. would have been involved in the Asian wars. As inhumane as the Japanese were, Chinese were migrating into Manchuria. Their attack on Pearl Harbor was not completely unprovoked and was not a total surprise.
"I am sick of the Japanese, 'Human rights' and 'Peace' groups" over holding their "annual self-righteous commemorations for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims," the Haaretz daily quoted Daniel Seaman, a deputy director general at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, as writing in his Facebook post... "(The bombings of) Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the consequence of Japanese aggression... Instead, they should be commemorating the estimated 50 million Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Malay, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Burmese and other victims of Japanese imperial aggression and genocide."Goes to show that it isn't about 'human rights' or 'peace' after all.
Similarly, the years 1933 to 1945 are stricken from the collective German memory. The older generation will not talk about the war years, but there is enough remembrances by Germany's neighbors that the war years are known to the general population. Also, there are proscriptions against Nazi regalia and symbols. The German population are aware of the Nazi's camps and the Holocaust.
I don't believe the amnesia runs as deep in Italy because this former Germany ally was also occupied by Germany from 8 September 1943 to 8 May 1945. The Germans were very cruel occupiers where they were in Italy and there's no love lost.
Nuking Iran might be similar.
Death by firestorm, by conventional weapons, or by nukes is still death... Peace activists tend toward unicorn silliness...
I like him.....sort of like if Curtis Lemay was the state department
guess the Americans had another agenda and plan. Had to keep China safe for the commies to get.
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