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Top Israeli official “sick” of commemorating Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims
Japan Times ^ | 08/16/2013 | Jiji

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 ...


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1 posted on 08/15/2013 9:51:50 PM PDT by TexGrill
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To: TexGrill

Can’t really disagree with his sentiments....


2 posted on 08/15/2013 9:54:16 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: TexGrill

Is Israel losing patience with it’s neighbors?


3 posted on 08/15/2013 9:55:19 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

“Is Israel losing patience with it’s neighbors?”

Really??? In a million years, I never would have guessed that Israel would ever have any problems with its Radical Islam neighbors. Doesn’t Al Qaeda want peace in the Middle East? And all that time, I thought Palestinian stone throwers were aiming their rocks at enemies of Israel. Double Sarc., or perhaps these comments might rank as a Triple-Double Sarc.


4 posted on 08/15/2013 10:01:37 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: TexGrill

Bad form.


5 posted on 08/15/2013 10:02:33 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: TexGrill
Oh dear. Is he setting up a contest of victimology?

I saw a Merv Griffith show once. He had on four guests, two African-Americans and two Jews. Each had a younger "hot-head" and an older serious, cautious speaker.

Merv had a good time listening to them claim bigger and worse victimology. THAT was his point. S*** happened; does happen and will continue to happen. That's life and Satan at work.

6 posted on 08/15/2013 10:03:29 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: TexGrill; rottndog; mylife

I have four letters and a 1,200 word essay on this subject but I will go with the letter titled Japanese Intransigence Provoked the Atomic Bombs or Japs and the Atomic Bombs: They Had It Coming

Arriving at VJ day demonstrated the critical role Kokutai played in surrender. Any prominent Japanese lived within an intimate spiritual fabric of Emperor, citizen, land, ancestral spirits, government, and Shinto religion.

Emperor Hirohito, foreseeing the probability of defeat, appointed a Peace Faction to his government in January 1944. However, this cultural imperative commenced a political kabuki through twenty months of continuous defeats, bombings of over 60 cities, and 1.3 million additional Japanese deaths.

The Japanese Privy Council debated the Final Battles arguments into physical and mental exhaustion for eleven hours following the Nagasaki bomb on August 9. For the final meeting Hirohito reluctantly invited Barron Hiranuma, who had fiercely disapproved of the war strategy. Hiranuma maintained the Emperor’s spiritual essence was independent of any imposed government. He reproved Foreign Minister Togo for never making concrete proposals to the Russians, and Minister Anami for accepting limitless nuclear warfare deaths without any opportunity to retaliate. The ministers had no answer, but remained unyielding.

At impasse Hirohito, the god-king, spoke the “Voice of the Crane” in the underground bunker. He would bear the unbearable, conclude the war, and accept government transformation. Only then did Japan contact Swiss and Swedish foreign offices to commence negotiations with allied belligerents.

The atomic bombs removed the Final Battles argument, allowing the War Faction to relent, Hirohito to assume his unprecedented roll, and no one to lose face. Their cabal remained within the fabric of Japanese from all eras who had sacrificed for Emperor and Empire.

Partial bibliography:

Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy, David Bergamni

Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring, Gordon Prange


7 posted on 08/15/2013 10:03:45 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: TexGrill
Seaman has a point.

Japan has yet to really publicly acknowledge the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese government preceding and during WWII.

Many of the atrocities of the Japanese out strip the German atrocities. The Japanese research in to germ warfare could have killed millions had the had the time to complete and weaponise their research.

Japan has for all intents and purposes banned the publication of any history of Japan’s atrocities inside Japan’s boarders. It is keeping the truth from its citizens.

8 posted on 08/15/2013 10:04:54 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: TexGrill

Ahmed does not understand that Herschel has a BIG Hammer.


9 posted on 08/15/2013 10:05:23 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Retain Mike

Thanks for the info.


10 posted on 08/15/2013 10:07:54 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

ita neighbors, like his and hers. Not it’s, which is the contraction for it is.


11 posted on 08/15/2013 10:08:40 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: mylife

ita neighbors, like his and hers. Not it’s, which is the contraction for it is.


12 posted on 08/15/2013 10:08:42 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Very. I’m at a loss as to why he felt it necessary to share his views.


13 posted on 08/15/2013 10:09:45 PM PDT by stormer
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To: mylife

oops, typo - ita = its.


14 posted on 08/15/2013 10:10:11 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: TexGrill

I agree. Just stop it.


15 posted on 08/15/2013 10:12:36 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: TexGrill

What was wrong with what he said?

Japan needs to own their agression during WW2.
I’m sure China agrees with his statements.

Pity Japan has this victim image within the anti-nuke crowd.


16 posted on 08/15/2013 10:13:43 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: kabumpo

There’s some karma for ya!


17 posted on 08/15/2013 10:14:15 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Retain Mike
Other statements he has made:

He attacked the Church of Scotland in May over a report which suggested that Jews had no divine claim to the land of historic Palestine.

He wrote: "The Church of Scotland? The Calvinist, Presbytarian [sic] Church of Scotland? Why do you think we give a flyin **** what you have to say?"

On July 22, he lambasted the EU's decision to label the military wing of Hizbollah, the Lebanese Shia organisation, as a terrorist group a "half-a****"because it made a distinction with its political wing.

At the start of the Muslim holy festival of Ramadan on July 9, he wrote: "Does the commencement of the fast of the Ramadan mean that Muslims will stop eating each other during the daytime?"

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.
18 posted on 08/15/2013 10:17:36 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: rottndog

Indeed, let us not forget these arrogant Sons of b!tchs murdered 60 million Chinese people or so.


19 posted on 08/15/2013 10:18:13 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: RginTN

Agreed. Japan is no victim in anything when it comes to WWII.


20 posted on 08/15/2013 10:18:47 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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