US Ambassador Skips Nagasaki Commemorations Over Israel Snub

Diplomatic tensions from the Israel-Hamas war have spilled into the annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Japan, with the U.S. ambassador skipping this year’s commemoration, along with senior diplomats of the other G-7 nations, because Israel was not invited. The U.S. embassy said Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, will instead honor the victims of the U.S. bombing on Aug. 9, 1945, at a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo.  The bombing killed 140,000 people. Together with the bombing of Hiroshima three days earlier, it led to the Japanese surrender of World War II on Aug. 15, 1945....