Good for him “I thought for sure it would be the people working so hard in Gaza, as we’ve seen," he told reporters in Tokyo after the announcement. “In Gaza, bleeding children are being held by their parents. It’s like in Japan 80 years ago.”
Toshiyuki Mimaki said Gaza workers deserved a Nobel prize after his organisation was given the award
Boo hoo for Israel. Wait, I have an idea: Israel can stop committing genocide!
He understood the assignment: making sure that it never happens again to anyone. Because no number of wrongs makes a right
Good for him morally connecting those two crimes.
Mimaki is a hero. Bless him.
as part of my undergraduate thesis ten years ago, I read all of Barefoot Gen it’s a manga written by a cartoonist who survived Hiroshima’s atomic bombing at six years old, and it’s extremely graphic and heartbreaking so much of the day-to-day, horrific imagery from Gaza reminds me of it
If it angers their leaders, perhaps it's a little too close to the mark for their comfort.
We got Mimaki, Tutu, Mandela, Tawakkol Karman, Sadat if you count him. I'm sure there are others. Has there ever been such a strong consensus among Nobel Peace Prize laureates for such a long time about the oppression of a people that is just wholly ignored by the international community?
Recommended after that article was this one that I had missed, from a few months ago I realized Morris was a genocidal racist who said ethnic cleansing is justified sometimes, referring to the Nakba, but I did not believe he was "Israel should nuke Iran" far gone. Jesus Christ!
Morris writes that if 'conventional weaponry' can't destroy Tehran's nuclear project, Israel should resort to its 'non-conventional capabilities'
And our ambassador is skipping out on the commemoration this year because Japan didn't invite Israel. So predictable and despicable