Top Israeli official “sick” of commemorating Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims

[neolithic]

Top Israeli official “sick” of commemorating Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims

JIJI

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.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his remarks do not reflect the government’s official view. Apparently taking this matter seriously, the office has suspended Seaman, according to a separate media report.


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[xunzi]

He is right in the context of magnitude but wrong in political correctness.

 

[East Asia United]

Top Israeli official “sick” of commemorating Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims

JIJI

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.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his remarks do not reflect the government’s official view. Apparently taking this matter seriously, the office has suspended Seaman, according to a separate media report.


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I agree. And the annoying Jews should STFU about the Holocaust.

 

[Fattyacids]

Top Israeli official “sick” of commemorating Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims

JIJI

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 office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his remarks do not reflect the government’s official view. Apparently taking this matter seriously, the office has suspended Seaman, according to a separate media report.


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I agree with the Israeli government official on the part I bolded. The suffering of Koreans, Chinese and South East Asians were far worse.

 

[senheiser]

he just wants people to focus on his own people since they arent special if others do the same things as them

 

[neolithic]

ASEAN welcomes China's proposal on building upgraded version of ACFTA

2013-08-21

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Economic Ministers from the 10 ASEAN members have noted with appreciation with China' s proposal on building an upgraded version of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), saying that ASEAN "welcomed the intent for the overall enhancement of the ACFTA."

In a joint media statement issued here on Wednesday following the ASEAN and China's economic ministers' consultations, which was co-chaired by Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng, second Minister of foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei and Gao Hucheng, Minister of Commerce of China.

ACFTA, which was signed 10 years ago, has played a key role in promoting rapid economic development for both China and ASEAN, said Gao in an interview with Chinese reporters. He said in the current consultations, China proposed to further strengthen China- ASEAN industrial cooperation and build an upgraded version of ACFTA.

Reviewing the general performance of ASEAN-China bilateral trade and investments, the ministers noted with pleasure that China maintained its position as ASEAN's largest trading partner despite the uncertainty in the global economy.

ASEAN-China bilateral trade based on ASEAN statistics, expanded at an annual growth rate of 21.6 percent from 2009 to 2012.

By the end of 2012, ASEAN total trade with China reached 318.6 billion U.S. dollars, increasing by 13.6 percent from 280.4 billion in 2011. The ministers were confident that the goal set by the leaders to bring bilateral trade to 500 billion U.S. dollars by 2015 would be achieved, if the trend continues up to 2015.

The ministers noted the progress made in implementing the ACFTA and expressed satisfaction with the ACFTA Joint Committee's ongoing efforts in upgrading the ACFTA agreements to ensure that the ACFTA remains dynamic and commercially relevant.

The ministers underscored that, with the liberalization objectives of the ACFTA almost realized, at least for ASEAN-6 ( Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand)and China, efforts should now be directed towards facilitating ASEAN-China bilateral trade and improving the ACFTA through the ongoing review of the Sensitive Trade and rules of Origin.

ASEAN economic ministers said they were pleased with the preliminary work undertaken by ASEAN and Hong Kong to realize the ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement and looked forward to the commencement of the negotiations in early 2014.

The FTA (Free Trade Agreement) between ASEAN and Hong Kong could also pave the way for Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, to be part of RCEP as an ASEAN-initiated free trade area that would cover Southeast Asia, Australia, China, India, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. Hong Kong has a high degree of autonomy in economic, trade, financial and monetary matters.

RCEP consolidates all ASEAN's existing FTAs into a single agreement creating one of the largest free trade areas in the world, and would account for a third of the world's GDP with total trade reaching 740.5 billion U.S. dollars and combined GDP amounting to 21.2 trillion U.S. dollars in 2012, figures from the ASEAN website showed.


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[neolithic]

Indonesian FM appeals nuclear powers to back regional nuke-free zone

2013-02-12

JAKARTA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa called on nuclear-weapon states to formally accede to the Protocol of the Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone ( SEANWFZ) Treaty as a concrete step to maintain Southeast Asia free of nuclear arsenals here on Tuesday.

The SEANWFZ treaty signed in 1995 in Bangkok commits the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s 10 member states "not to develop, manufacture or otherwise acquire, possess or have control over atomic weapons," and it prohibits the storage and transfer of such armaments in ASEAN states.

ASEAN's Brunei ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at the beginning of this year, leaving Myanmar and Thailand the only two yet to ratify CTBT.

The SEANWFZ treaty includes a protocol under which the five declared nuclear-weapon states, namely China, the United States, France, Russia and the United Kingdom undertake to respect the Treaty and rule out the use of nuclear weapons to attack or pressure treaty member nations.

"Since the signing of the Treaty, ASEAN has engaged nuclear- weapon states in negotiations toward their accession to the Treaty' s Protocol," Minister Marty said when delivering his opening address at a regional seminar on maintaining a Southeast Asia region free of nuclear weapons.

Marty said after a 10-year impasse, the negotiations of the revised Protocol were concluded in 2011 during Indonesia's tenure as chair of ASEAN.

The negotiations between the ASEAN and the nuclear-weapon states on the protocol have been ongoing since May 2001. However, none of the nuclear-weapon states have formally signed this protocol.

"The reservations or declarations to the Protocol of the SEANWFZ Treaty should not become a constraint that would hamper the achievement of the signing of the Protocol of SEANWFZ Treaty by all nuclear-weapon states," Marty said.


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[neolithic]

17:14 28 September 2013

Japan, China, S. Korea name Yokohama, Quanzhou, Gwangju culture cities

GWANGJU, South Korea, Sept. 28, Kyodo

The culture ministers from Japan, China and South Korea met in the ancient South Korean city of Kwangju on Saturday and designated one city in each country as an "East Asia City of Culture."

Japan named Yokohama, a port city known for international exchanges, while China chose Quanzhou, an ancient trading port in southern Fujian Province, and South Korea picked Gwangju, a city with more than 2,000 years of history.

The three cities have been designated as the principal venues for a host of cultural and arts exchange programs to begin next year to promote mutual understanding among the three East Asian countries, which have been afflicted by territorial disputes and issues of history.

The get-together in Gwangju, involving Japan's education and culture minister Hakubun Shimomura, China's culture minister Cai Wu and South Korea's culture minister Yoo Jin Ryong, is the first Cabinet-level meeting of the three countries since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed office last December.

Japan's government-to-government ties with China and South Korea have been strained by territorial disputes over the past year as well as history issues stemming from Japan's past war in China and Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

"One big achievement of this meeting is that we have come to share the understanding that cultural exchanges are important to develop the ties of our countries," Shimomura told reporters after the one-day session.

The three countries also agreed at the meeting in Gwangju to hold the next trilateral meeting of cultural ministers next year in Japan.

The host country of the annual ministerial meeting would also host an arts and cultural festival involving cultural events and arts performances from the three countries.

The three countries will also designate other cities as an "East Asia City of Culture" from 2015.

Japan, China and South Korea launched the trilateral meeting of culture ministers in 2007, and the Gwangju meeting is the fifth round in the series.

Japan, China and South Korea also held a ministerial conference on environmental issues in May, but, reflecting the soured diplomatic ties with Japan, China downgraded its representation by sending a deputy environment minister to the session.


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[Dungeness]

He is right in the context of magnitude but wrong in political correctness.

He was right on both accounts. Since when an aggressor and loser of war gets to decide what is the "political correctness" for the whole world?

 

[war&peace]

Deems fit as per their actions....How can a terrorist respect humanity and such human loss Israeli are terrorists and they are enemy of humanity regardless of Palestinians, Japanese or Africans. But their hypocrisy and liar become evident when the mourn and commemorate holocaust....which never happened and just a bunch of lies so as to fool the world.