Flashback Israeli official suspended for Hiroshima remarks

JERUSALEM —

An Israeli official involved in government public relations has been suspended from his work for writing crude Facebook posts.

A government official said Thursday that Danny Seaman was instructed to stop his work “for now.”

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters. He would not say if Seaman would return to his post. Seaman declined comment.

In one of his posts published by Haaretz newspaper, Seaman said he was “sick” of “self-righteous” Japanese and international commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims.

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the consequence of Japanese aggression. You reap what you sow,” he said.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein said Japan’s embassy sought clarification about the remark. Stein said it did not reflect Israel’s official position.

The people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not who were being aggressive they were not military they were civilians over half of them were children. To collectively condemn Japan as a whole for what the military did would be as stupid as saying those self righteous Jews got what they deserved in the Holocaust because a portion of Jews led the munitions strikes that caused Germany to lose WWI. This wasn’t just some guy voicing a stupid opinion this was a person working for public relations. This is like saying hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children deserved to die because Saddam was an asshole. I wonder how he would feel if Israel was nuked twice and someone turned around and said that’s what “they” get for their aggression on Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.