Vanuna re-arrested, again.... and released.
Vanunu has been arrested again by Israel - almost a year to the day since the last assault on his new-found "freedom", if virtual house arrest can be described as such. What follows is neither the best written nor most enlightening account of the heroic role Vanunu actually played in bringing Israel's covert nuclear program to the world's attention- and it doesn't take much of a stretch of imagination to assume that those paying for it- the Americans- were also complicit. Write to your local/ national politicians and Israel, and demand Vanunu's release and a lifting of the travel ban. More background info and contacts.
NOTE: Vanunu has since been released . It appears that the arrest was in essence an Israeli engineered "media feed", aimed at discrediting Vanunu by casting suspicion upon him as a Palestinian sympathiser. He never entered the West Bank - the basis of the false arrest and the media stories it inspired, such as the BBC article which follows. SEE FOOTNOTE AT END FOR VANUNU'S OWN ACCOUNT OF THE ARREST.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4450004.stm
Friday, 18 November 2005, 16:02 GMT
Vanunu held after West Bank visit
Mordechai Vanunu says he has averted a nuclear holocaust in the region. (WHAT, TODAY? NOW , HERE'S A GREAT PIECE OF JOURNALISM. THE "OPENING" STATEMENT IS IN FACT REFERRING TO VANUNU'S ACTIONS OF OVER 18 YEARS AGO- AND THE CLAIM IS NOT ONE OF PERSONAL CONCEIT BUT WIDELY HELD BY HISTORIANS AND THE GLOBAL PEACE MOVEMENT) Israeli ex-nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu has been held for allegedly violating restrictions imposed after his release from prison in 2004. Police said he was held at the al-Ram checkpoint north of Jerusalem as he was returning by bus from the West Bank. .The former nuclear scientist is barred from leaving Israel and is not allowed to visit the Palestinian territories. He was jailed (READ- KIDNAPPED ABROAD BY MOSSAD AGENTS AND ILLEGALLY CONVICTED) in 1986 for 18 years after discussing his work at the Dimona nuclear reactor with a UK newspaper.
"He (Mr Vanunu) has been taken to our International Crimes Unit for questioning," Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Mr Vanunu flashed a victory sign before being taken away in a police vehicle. Asked what he had done to prompt the arrest, he said: "Nothing. They just want to arrest me again. They don't want me to enjoy freedom."
Christianity convert
Mr Vanunu served most of his jail term in solitary confinement. He was released in April 2004 under strict conditions.
Mr Vanunu has not been allowed to have a passport, is forbidden to approach ports and airports, and is banned from talking to foreigners without permission. Israel insists Mr Vanunu - who has converted to Christianity - still poses a security threat.( AGAIN, THESE CONSTANT REFERENCES TO HIS RELIGIOUS CONVERSION, WHICH IS A PRIVATE DECISION BEING TREATED AS SYMPTOMATIC OF YET ANOTHER BETRAYAL, TO THE JEWISH FAITH THIS TIME. A CLUMSY ATTEMPT TO ALIENATE JEWISH SYMPATHIZERS FROM HIS CAUSE.) In March, he was charged with violating the terms of his release from jail by giving interviews to the foreign media.
Mr Vanunu says his action in revealing Israel's nuclear secrets aimed to avert a nuclear holocaust in the region.
Many Israelis view him as a traitor. (ON THIS LAST POINT- WELL? SO WHAT. PEACE LOVING ISRAELIS, also many in number, I hope,VIEW HIM AS A HERO, as do MANY OF US.)
FOOTNOTE: Vanunu wrote,
" last Friday again the israel authorities use the power to arrest me, but this time to continue by putting me back in prison for 2 days, sending me back to remember all the cruelty and hard life of 18 years in isolation , the reason this time was i come very close to the check point near the wall in Aram,a small Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem that still not decided were the apartheid wall going to move, I took a bus from the Bus station in east Jerusalem .the bus travel to the Aram without checking, and bus return to Jerusalem , but before leaving Aram they have a check point,
In the check point , they check my ID card and the soldiers there received the order to arrest me , they took my camera and my mobile, and took me to the nearest police station, where i was waiting for the special police unite who came from Tel Aviv to take me to there to be question,
meanwhile the police themselves invited the israel media TV to come and let them take photos as much as they want and report my arrest in their main news, as a man who is going to the occupied territories where the "enemies ","fighting" them. so they want the israel public to regard me equal to terrorist.
I said to the media "they arrested me when i went to see the Aram check point,to see the Apartheid wall, the Palestinians ghettos.".
In Tel Aviv they questioned me about this "entering" to the Palestine occupied territories.what am I doing there.why I am not following the general Army orders.I said Aram is still part of Palestine east Jerusalem,I am not interesting to see the occupied territories,I just want to see the apartheid wall,to see this village,I said it is not yet clear where is the borders in Jerusalem,he want to know with whom I was there,names,why I am with foreigners,he want to see the camera photos,
the police decided to arrest me because they want to release under court orders,but there was no court in Jewish sabbath day,so they need to wait until Saturday night,
so they imprisoned me in Tel Aviv,in a cell without any thing just mattrest and a blanket,
Saturday morning my lawyer Feldman and Sfard, came to see me,to hear what happened,
to represent me in court,in the evening the police took me back to the court ,the woman judge heard my case at 20:30.Feldman did not agree to the police terms of my release.they want 2 weeks house arrest,and 50.000 shekels.Feldman convinced the judge and even the police that this arrest was a big mistake because I was not violating the terms of my release, as it is not clear where yet israel want to put its apartheid wall,
before the judge make her decision the police capitulated and agree for immediate release without any condition just by my self signature,
that was a small victory for Feldman defending me,and my friend Gideon took me back to Jerusalem ,St. George, where we have a glass of Beer,
But the police with the israel spies ,couldn't go without something,
they demanded from me to give them my Camera and my mobile to check them,
so now I don't have my mobile .no phone connection until receiving them back.
So that was another harassment in this new serial cruelty since my release,until they will give up and let me go,leave isreal.or if they will they can put me back in prison.
My conclusion the world continue to ignore my situation and not doing for my freedom as they use to do during 18 years,no intervene to demand my release,the world let israel to do as they want.
let them commit more crimes.kidnapping,injustice and cruelty,
vmjc
--
message
Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free.
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.R Lovelace.
NOTE: Vanunu has since been released . It appears that the arrest was in essence an Israeli engineered "media feed", aimed at discrediting Vanunu by casting suspicion upon him as a Palestinian sympathiser. He never entered the West Bank - the basis of the false arrest and the media stories it inspired, such as the BBC article which follows. SEE FOOTNOTE AT END FOR VANUNU'S OWN ACCOUNT OF THE ARREST.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4450004.stm
Friday, 18 November 2005, 16:02 GMT
Vanunu held after West Bank visit
Mordechai Vanunu says he has averted a nuclear holocaust in the region. (WHAT, TODAY? NOW , HERE'S A GREAT PIECE OF JOURNALISM. THE "OPENING" STATEMENT IS IN FACT REFERRING TO VANUNU'S ACTIONS OF OVER 18 YEARS AGO- AND THE CLAIM IS NOT ONE OF PERSONAL CONCEIT BUT WIDELY HELD BY HISTORIANS AND THE GLOBAL PEACE MOVEMENT) Israeli ex-nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu has been held for allegedly violating restrictions imposed after his release from prison in 2004. Police said he was held at the al-Ram checkpoint north of Jerusalem as he was returning by bus from the West Bank. .The former nuclear scientist is barred from leaving Israel and is not allowed to visit the Palestinian territories. He was jailed (READ- KIDNAPPED ABROAD BY MOSSAD AGENTS AND ILLEGALLY CONVICTED) in 1986 for 18 years after discussing his work at the Dimona nuclear reactor with a UK newspaper.
"He (Mr Vanunu) has been taken to our International Crimes Unit for questioning," Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Mr Vanunu flashed a victory sign before being taken away in a police vehicle. Asked what he had done to prompt the arrest, he said: "Nothing. They just want to arrest me again. They don't want me to enjoy freedom."
Christianity convert
Mr Vanunu served most of his jail term in solitary confinement. He was released in April 2004 under strict conditions.
Mr Vanunu has not been allowed to have a passport, is forbidden to approach ports and airports, and is banned from talking to foreigners without permission. Israel insists Mr Vanunu - who has converted to Christianity - still poses a security threat.( AGAIN, THESE CONSTANT REFERENCES TO HIS RELIGIOUS CONVERSION, WHICH IS A PRIVATE DECISION BEING TREATED AS SYMPTOMATIC OF YET ANOTHER BETRAYAL, TO THE JEWISH FAITH THIS TIME. A CLUMSY ATTEMPT TO ALIENATE JEWISH SYMPATHIZERS FROM HIS CAUSE.) In March, he was charged with violating the terms of his release from jail by giving interviews to the foreign media.
Mr Vanunu says his action in revealing Israel's nuclear secrets aimed to avert a nuclear holocaust in the region.
Many Israelis view him as a traitor. (ON THIS LAST POINT- WELL? SO WHAT. PEACE LOVING ISRAELIS, also many in number, I hope,VIEW HIM AS A HERO, as do MANY OF US.)
FOOTNOTE: Vanunu wrote,
" last Friday again the israel authorities use the power to arrest me, but this time to continue by putting me back in prison for 2 days, sending me back to remember all the cruelty and hard life of 18 years in isolation , the reason this time was i come very close to the check point near the wall in Aram,a small Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem that still not decided were the apartheid wall going to move, I took a bus from the Bus station in east Jerusalem .the bus travel to the Aram without checking, and bus return to Jerusalem , but before leaving Aram they have a check point,
In the check point , they check my ID card and the soldiers there received the order to arrest me , they took my camera and my mobile, and took me to the nearest police station, where i was waiting for the special police unite who came from Tel Aviv to take me to there to be question,
meanwhile the police themselves invited the israel media TV to come and let them take photos as much as they want and report my arrest in their main news, as a man who is going to the occupied territories where the "enemies ","fighting" them. so they want the israel public to regard me equal to terrorist.
I said to the media "they arrested me when i went to see the Aram check point,to see the Apartheid wall, the Palestinians ghettos.".
In Tel Aviv they questioned me about this "entering" to the Palestine occupied territories.what am I doing there.why I am not following the general Army orders.I said Aram is still part of Palestine east Jerusalem,I am not interesting to see the occupied territories,I just want to see the apartheid wall,to see this village,I said it is not yet clear where is the borders in Jerusalem,he want to know with whom I was there,names,why I am with foreigners,he want to see the camera photos,
the police decided to arrest me because they want to release under court orders,but there was no court in Jewish sabbath day,so they need to wait until Saturday night,
so they imprisoned me in Tel Aviv,in a cell without any thing just mattrest and a blanket,
Saturday morning my lawyer Feldman and Sfard, came to see me,to hear what happened,
to represent me in court,in the evening the police took me back to the court ,the woman judge heard my case at 20:30.Feldman did not agree to the police terms of my release.they want 2 weeks house arrest,and 50.000 shekels.Feldman convinced the judge and even the police that this arrest was a big mistake because I was not violating the terms of my release, as it is not clear where yet israel want to put its apartheid wall,
before the judge make her decision the police capitulated and agree for immediate release without any condition just by my self signature,
that was a small victory for Feldman defending me,and my friend Gideon took me back to Jerusalem ,St. George, where we have a glass of Beer,
But the police with the israel spies ,couldn't go without something,
they demanded from me to give them my Camera and my mobile to check them,
so now I don't have my mobile .no phone connection until receiving them back.
So that was another harassment in this new serial cruelty since my release,until they will give up and let me go,leave isreal.or if they will they can put me back in prison.
My conclusion the world continue to ignore my situation and not doing for my freedom as they use to do during 18 years,no intervene to demand my release,the world let israel to do as they want.
let them commit more crimes.kidnapping,injustice and cruelty,
vmjc
--
message
Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free.
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.R Lovelace.
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