US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will boycott Friday’s memorial service in Nagasaki commemorating the 79th anniversary of the US dropping a nuclear bomb on the city because Israel was not invited to attend.
Emanuel said the ceremony had become “politicized” by the decision not to invite Israel, but Russia and Belarus will also be excluded for the third year in a row, a move supported by the US.
Envoys from the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the European Union sent a letter to Nagasaki last month saying it would “become difficult for us to have high-level participation” if Israel wasn’t invited. The envoys said the decision would equate Israel with Russia and Belarus.
Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki stuck to his decision not to invite Israel despite the pressure. He said it was due to concerns that Israeli attendance could lead to demonstrators disrupting the ceremony. “I will continue to persevere and ask for understanding of the decision as often as necessary,” Suzuki said.
Suzuki said he made the decision “not for political reasons” but to ensure “a smooth ceremony in a peaceful and solemn environment.”
Israel’s ambassador to Japan was invited to Hiroshima’s ceremony on Tuesday, which was attended by Emanuel and other Western ambassadors. The ambassadors of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the EU are expected to boycott the Nagasaki ceremony along with Emanuel, and the Western nations will send lower-level representatives instead.
Israeli officials have pointed to the US and allied bombings of Japan and Germany during World War II to justify the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. President Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed to the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed over 200,000 Japanese civilians, in conversations they had about Gaza.
“It was pointed out to me that — by Bibi (Netanyahu) — that ‘Well, you carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died,'” Biden said in December 2023.
Isn't inviting the US to an A-bomb memorial like inviting OJ Simpson to the wake of Ron Goldman?
No. It's worse. It's like inviting Harry Truman himself to dance on the Japanese civilians' graves–Thousands of them.
It is what defeated satraps (even 80 years later) do.
I dunno. I don't think OJ did it. I mean, that thing in Vegas, 100% sure Juice did that. But not Ron & Nicole.
Then who did it, the shooter from the Grassy Knoll?
There was speculation at the time that it was his older son.
"I heard it was a Lone Gunman."
Why should the Apartheid/Genocidal State be invited to anything? If any country can be considered a pariah, it's them. Oh, and can't forget the USA government.
Actually, why was the perpetrator of that war crime invited?
Will a survivor from the Gaza Ghetto be in attendance?
hmmm american criminal not comming ..!
Jews were key figures in the development of that bomb so should be represented there to bask in their success.
https://youtu.be/g6a_ZveCUck?t=26
Proud to contribute to mass murdering, genocide and massacre…?!
Most of them were. Read about Edward Teller.
So were Christians. What is your point besides simple hate?
The Japanese are sorry they missed Rahm Emanuel's lecture on our moral superiority over Russia and China. He included new pages on why it's important that we support genocide.
Looking at so called newly released video of the A Bomb effects on Nagasaki there should be absolutely no tolerance for The Zionist State of Israel reign of Genocide.
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The envoys said the decision would equate Israel with Russia and Belarus.
What an insult to Russia and Belarus.
Had a similar thought, Wars … no way can you "equate" Israel with Russia. The utter evil of the former in Gaza is unprecedented since WW2.
Especially considering how fast it could be stopped. That's what really gets me and that's why I think it deserves special status. It is fucking sickening. And Russia's invasion of Ukraine doesn't even rank above the US' "shock and awe"
A radical Zionist boycotts an event that exposes genocide. Interesting.
I'd be fine with the ASI excluded from the Olympics (which they weren't) but I think if anything, all nuclear-armed nations (and those hosting nuclear weapons for others, like Germany and Belarus et. al.) should be there at Hiroshima and Nagasaki EVERY YEAR, front-row, facing signs in their languages that read, "You hold the power to do this 1000x over. Disarm NOW."
It is bad enough the history of war being a military/economic complex of debt financed empire expansion and imposition of one currency, sending and bombing soldiers in a meat grinder, but even worse is to justify the bombing of civilians, especially the hundreds of thousands in Japan with the nuclear bomb, and thousands in Germany with the firebombs, and to use this to justify killing innocents in Gaza. It is a madness blinded by a system of empire dependent on debt financing and dominance of one currency
Entirely true. Only a few see this, though, because of the "great work" of the education system and the MSM in complicating, obfuscating, and narrative managing what is a really rather simple situation.
“It was pointed out to me that — by Bibi (Netanyahu) — that ‘Well, you carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died,'” Biden said in December 2023.
To be fair, Biden said more than that. And it too, should be printed.
Biden said that when he has warned Netanyahu of a loss of international support over the bombing, the Israeli leader has mentioned that the U.S. had "carpet-bombed Germany'' in the Second World War and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
And then this shocking quote. From Dec of 2023. Same time Bibi said that about our carpet-bombing Germany.
"That's why all these institutions were set up after World War II, to see that it didn't happen again,'' he said. "Don't make the same mistakes we made in 9/11. There's no reason we had to be in a war in Afghanistan. There's no reason we had to do so many things that we did.''
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-israel-gaza-comments-1.7056940
Interesting. I guess there were probably still a few marbles rattling around back then.
I certainly had to do a doubletake. The teleprompter must have been hacked.
Since everyone knows Israel has nukes and that they strategically refuse to admit it, it is no wonder they were not invited. The Dept. of State is offended that the Japanese should refuse awe and admiration for another member of the nuke club. Since America was responsible for this, America really has no other part in the ceremony but to show our respect and shame. Israel would only be waving from the peanut gallery as it is.
Sure, invite the gang of war criminals. Should be a hoot. I say excommunicate the entire stinking dump.
Only Evil Knows Evil…!
Add this: charges of rape, sexual assault and we continue to ponder, how these could be “chosen people”?… …. ….
They’re chosen alright to be on the other side of the spectrum….Evil…!
Rahm Emanuel, son of a member of the Irgun gang, the outfit that executed the bombing of the King David Hotel, killing innocents. On Geraldo's show may years ago, as a guest of Geraldo, Netanyahu was asked about the killing of innocents in that bombing. I remember crystal clear what he said, "they should not have been there".
Rahm Emanuel and his demented boss will be gone 6 months. But, before they go, they intend to spend their time making enemies, even among allies.
If I were attempting to convince Japan that they would be better off by befriending China, there's not much I could do that Biden, Raimondo, and Yellen haven't already done.
Here’s a relative point from the past, last year:
Hiroshima Survivors Decry Link to Pearl Harbor
Kunihiko Sakuma, who chairs the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organization, said reconciliation cannot truly be reached between the two countries until the U.S. acknowledges that “The A-bomb did not end the war and save the lives of American soldiers as the U.S. side likes to say.”
“It was clear that Japan was going to lose,” he told Nikkei Asia, saying the attack was unnecessary and meant as a display of U.S. military power.
“Unless that fundamental issue is addressed, we cannot just focus on the future,” said Sakuma.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/07/hiroshima-survivors-decry-link-to-pearl-harbor/
What a disgusting bunch. The death cult are upset one of their members was excluded. Don't they realize there was no Israel when the bombs dropped?