Daniel Seaman, דניאל סימן , דני סימן

דניאל סימן , דני סימן

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On September 16 2010 Seaman was kicked from his position as a GPO director after many complaints were filled against him for the miss use of his position.
He was replaced by another radical extremist’s new director Oren Helman.

Colonel Daniel Seaman is an American Jewish settler. He was born on a US Air Force base in Germany in 1961, his father was an officer of the US Airforce.

His family emigrated from the United States to Israel in 1971 and settled in the stolen Palestinian village of Al-Jorah (Asqalan). Al-Jorah was re-named by the illegal Israeli occupation as "Ashkelon" in 1948.

Al-Jorah (Asqalan) was still an Arab village in the summer of 1950 – after the war . In 1950, the Israeli military ethnically cleansed this village. All the Palestinians were rounded up, packed in trucks and dumped at the nearest border near Gaza, and expelled. After the ethnic cleansing of 1950, the military commander (Givaati unit) who deported the original inhabitants of Al-Jorah (Asqalan) proclaimed that "now we will live here in beautiful Ashkelon without the dirty Arabs". All the buildings of the original village were destroyed by the Jews.

Seaman is an orthodox right wing activist. He has good connections to the settlement council, the “Yesha”.

Seaman lives with his wife and three children among 371 settlers in the illegal settlement of Gilo, which was expanded with Har Gilo, on road 60 near the Al-Nafaq tunnel. Har Gilo (and Gilo) are illegal settlements built on land which was stolen from Palestinians from the districts of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and later annexed illegally and against international laws and treaties by Israel. Gilo is considered by Israel to be a “neighbourhood” of Jerusalem. Both Gilo and Har Gilo settlements were annexed by the apartheid wall, and the Israelis are expanding these settlements on Palestinian lands over the rocky hillsides.

Daniel Seaman enlisted in the Israel Defence Forces. He served in a paratrooper unit in 1979. He joined the war against Lebanon in 1982, where he murdered innocent Lebanese civilian and he received condecoration for that.

From 1983 – 1989, Seaman studied political sciences at the University of New York’s Hunter College, and he worked at the Consulate General of Israel in New York.

He served as an officer at the Foreign Press Liaison office at the IDF spokesperson’s unit.

In 2000, Daniel Seaman was appointed the director of the Israel Government Press Office (GPO). He treated the foreign journalists very badly, and he made their working conditions miserable. Some foreign journalists were deported from Israel and barred from ever receiving a visa for Israel again. In his zeal, Seaman recommended this treatment against them to the authorities. Seaman saw the foreign press as “anti-semitic”, and accused all foreign journalists of being “blinded” by a desire to support the Palestinian cause. He also stopped issuing press cards to many journalists, accusing them of “working for small newspapers” which were either “not good” or “leftist” or from countries “not supporting Israel”, or whatever other reason of the day he invented when he disliked the truth they wrote. Daniel also classified documentary filmmakers as not being journalists. Seaman said on 30 June 2003 that the Israeli authorities were cutting off all ties with the British BBC TV because it systematically criticized Israel and had put out programs that were “virtually anti-semitic”. In Seaman’s strange and paramoralistic view of the world, criticizing genocide and ethnic cleansing had become “anti-semitic”, whatever that word means.

According to a recent Ha’aretz article, the Israeli Civil Service Commission is investigating accusations from foreign journalists saying that Government Press Office Director Daniel Seaman has treated them improperly and enforced the procedures for receiving a press pass in an inequitable manner.

Was Daniel Seaman involved in the murder of Palestinians exiled in Europe ?

According to his Wikipedia entry, Daniel Seaman headed a Mossad hit squad that operated in Europe during his years in the USA. That Wikipedia statement was posted on July 17, 2007 by somebody from address 147.237.73.201, which belongs to the "Israeli Government Network", and which is also the address from which most of the edits of that Wikipedia article were made (See my article about Seaman at http://tinyurl.com/ynpqns).

Concerning what is written in Wikipedia I can only say that I do not know if this is true, or not. I can neither confirm nor deny that, as the source of these statements is the Israeli government itself. But IF these informations are true, then here is a list of names of Palestinians exiled in Europe who were murdered in the years between 1983 – 1989.

* On 1 January 1983, Mr. Isam Sartawi was murdered in Portugal
* On 3 August 1983, Mr. Ma’amon Imresh was murdered in Portugal
* On 28 April 1984, Mr. Hana Mikbel was murdered in Cyprus
* On 14 August 1984, Mr. Ismael Isa Darwish was murdered in Rome
* On 21 January 1986, Mr. Monzer Abu Gazaleh was murdered in Athens
* On 9 June 1986, Mr. Khaled Nazal was murdered in Rome
* On 14 February 1988, Mr. Hamdi Sultan, Mr. Marwan Al-Kayyal, and Mr. Mohammad Hasan were murdered in Cyprus