Nuclear whistleblower Vanunu arrested again by Israel...
In May 2010, Mordechai Vanunu was re-arrested and sentenced to three months in jail on suspicion that he had met with foreigners (meetings with his Norwegian girlfriend and journalists), thus violating one of the unreasonable conditions of his 2004 release from jail.
When is this idiocy going to end, and Israel finally allows him to leave the country in accordance with his stated wishes. They have already subjected him to almost 2 decades of prison, much of it under inhumane conditions such as 11 years of isolation, essentially robbing him of much of his life, and all for revealing publicly the covert nuclear program that Israel still doesn't officially admit to. To those who believe in nuclear non-proliferation, the man is a hero. Amnesty International considers him 'a prisoner of conscience'.
If the British and their allies had not "unofficially" facilitated the original development of Israel's nuclear program, perhaps we would not be witnessing other countries in the region scrambling to develop one of their own. It's decidedly hypocritical of the West to condemn and punish through sanctions Israel's Middle Eastern neighbours for the same action they condone when the nation is Israel.
Mordechai Vanunu jailed by Israeli court for unauthorised meetings.
Israeli whistleblower, who spent 18 years in jail for exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal, given new three-month sentence
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 May 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israeli-nuclear-whistleblower-prison-sentence
Bloomberg
Israel Will Not Take Part in ‘Flawed’ NPT Resolution (Update1)
May 29, 2010
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-29/israel-will-not-take-part-in-flawed-npt-resolution-update1-.html
When is this idiocy going to end, and Israel finally allows him to leave the country in accordance with his stated wishes. They have already subjected him to almost 2 decades of prison, much of it under inhumane conditions such as 11 years of isolation, essentially robbing him of much of his life, and all for revealing publicly the covert nuclear program that Israel still doesn't officially admit to. To those who believe in nuclear non-proliferation, the man is a hero. Amnesty International considers him 'a prisoner of conscience'.
If the British and their allies had not "unofficially" facilitated the original development of Israel's nuclear program, perhaps we would not be witnessing other countries in the region scrambling to develop one of their own. It's decidedly hypocritical of the West to condemn and punish through sanctions Israel's Middle Eastern neighbours for the same action they condone when the nation is Israel.
Mordechai Vanunu jailed by Israeli court for unauthorised meetings.
Israeli whistleblower, who spent 18 years in jail for exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal, given new three-month sentence
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 May 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israeli-nuclear-whistleblower-prison-sentence
Bloomberg
Israel Will Not Take Part in ‘Flawed’ NPT Resolution (Update1)
May 29, 2010
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-29/israel-will-not-take-part-in-flawed-npt-resolution-update1-.html
posted by Dawn One at 4:37 pm
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Why Israel Put Mordechai Vanunu Back In Jail
On 24 April 2004, which was three days after Mordechai Vanunu was released from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell jail for providing the photographic proof and telling the truth about Israel's clandestine seven story underground WMD Program in the Negev, Uri Avnery wrote:
"Everybody understands that he has no more secrets. What can a technician know after 18 years in jail, during which technology has advanced with giant steps?
"But gradually it becomes clear what the security establishment is really afraid of. Vanunu is in a position to expose the close partnership with the United States in the development of Israel's nuclear armaments.
"This worries Washington so much, that the man responsible in the State Department for 'arms control', Under-Secretary John Bolton, has come to Israel in person for the occasion. Vanunu, it appears, can cause severe damage to the mighty super-power.
"The Americans, it seems, are very worried. The Israeli security services have to dance to their tune. The world must be prevented by all available means from hearing, from the lips of a credible witness, that the Americans are full partners in Israel's nuclear arms program, while pretending to be the world's sheriff for the prevention of nuclear proliferation."
"Vanunu told the world that Israel had developed between one hundred and two hundred atomic bombs [in 1986!] and had gone on to develop neutron bombs and thermonuclear weapons. Enough to destroy the entire Middle East and nobody has done anything about it since."-Peter Hounam, 2003 for the BBC.
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
"President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection.
"When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
"Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year."
Please listen to Vanunu in 2005, 2006 and 2008 video interviews and learn all about his FREEDOM OF SPEECH Trial at WeAreWideAwake.org
THE VANUNU SAGA 2005-2010
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