The US embassy said the peace event had been “politicized” because of the exclusion.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel attends a trilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in the East Room of the White House on April 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C.U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is reportedly skipping an annual memorial ceremony for the U.S.
The British embassy said in a statement that excluding Israel “creates an unfortunate and misleading equivalency with Russia and Belarus — the only other countries not invited to this year’s ceremony.” Israel’s ambassador also protested the idea that Israel’s assault on Gaza — and escalating violence in the occupied West Bank — is comparable to Russia’s invasion.
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