by Oui
Wed Oct 16th, 2024 at 05:13:23 AM EST
Nobel Prize-Winning Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki see themselves in the Palestinians of Gaza | Juan Cole |
Friday evening it was announced that Nihon Hidankyo which Asahi Shimbun glosses as "the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations," has won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Israel's genocide in Gaza, however, hung over the victory. According to The Irish Times's David McNeill in Tokyo, when Toshiyuki Mimaki, the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, watched the ceremony in Oslo on television and discovered that his organization had won, he said tearfully, "It can't be real, I felt so sure it would be the people of Gaza."
Mr. Mimaki's certainty that the "people of Gaza" would compete successfully for the Nobel with the survivors of a nuclear attack speaks volumes about how the genocide is viewed outside the North Atlantic world. And, to be sure, the sheer tonnage of bombs dropped on Gaza since October 2023 has exceeded that of the two atomic bombs deployed in 1945.
Article on The Japan Times has been deleted.
Israel envoy criticizes Japan atomic survivor's Gaza comparison |
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Hidankyo the 2024 peace prize on Friday "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again."
Why was Israel angry with Nihon Hidankyo, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?
Gaza like Japan after nuclear bombs, says Nobel Peace-winning group head | Anadolu Agency |
The situation with children in the Gaza Strip is similar to Japan's, after nuclear bombs struck at the end of World War II, said Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Nobel Peace Prize winning group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors.
"In Gaza, bleeding children are being held (by their parents). It's like in Japan 80 years ago," Mimaki said at a news conference in Tokyo. "Children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki lost their fathers in the war and their mothers in the bombings. They became orphans."
"The people are wishing for peace. But politicians insist on waging war, saying, 'We won't stop until we win.' I think this true for Russia and Israel, and I always wonder whether the power of the United Nations couldn't put a stop to it," said Mimaki.
He also warned that nuclear weapons do not bring peace. "It has been said that because of nuclear weapons, the world maintains peace. But nuclear weapons can be used by terrorists," he said.
"If Russia uses them against Ukraine, or Israel against Gaza, it won't stop there."
Mimaki was 3 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing 140,000 victims.
Three days later, another bomb hit Nagasaki, killing an additional 70,000. Japan surrendered Aug.t 15, 1945, ending World War II.
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Geez … a low tonnage nuclear strike compared to the Israeli Air Force dropping 3 or 4 of these inhumane massive explosive “beasts” in a residential district of Gaza Strip or on the suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon today.
The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT.
Hiroshima Nagasaki destruction compared to Gaza Strip
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Can we help nuclear attack victims? | Ban Nuclear Weapons - ICRC |
See previous diaries on the overwhelming criticism of current global powers and the nuclear threat … hiding behind the hand of almighty tools of destruction. INHUMANE
Failure of the ultimate goal to live side by side in peace and accept the sovereignty of nations and the diversity of cultures … planet 🌎 EARTH self destruct through “intelligence” of big tech maniacs.
