This is zionism: 'Vanunu is a prisoner of conscience'

Friday, 18 June 2010

'Vanunu is a prisoner of conscience'

Amnesty International has criticized Israel for sending nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu back to prison.

"Mordechai Vanunu should not be in prison at all, let alone be held in solitary confinement in a unit intended for violent criminals," said Malcolm Smart, the London-based rights group's Middle East program director, AFP reported.

In 1986, the nuclear technician was sentenced to 18 years in prison for exposing details about Israel's nuclear program and the military activities at the Dimona nuclear facility, where he was a worker, which provided convincing evidence that Israel possessed a nuclear arsenal.

Vanunu, who is now 55 years old, was released from prison on probation in 2004, after serving his 18-year sentence, but has been arrested several times for allegedly violating the terms of his release.

Most recently, an Israeli court said he had to either perform community service or go back to prison for allegedly meeting with a foreign national, which is not permitted in the terms of his release.

He was forced to serve time when the Israeli supreme court refused to allow him to perform the compulsory labor in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), where he had requested to do the work in order to avoid the risk of being harassed by Israelis.

"Mordechai Vanunu is a prisoner of conscience," said Smart. "He suffered immensely when he was held in solitary confinement for 11 years after his imprisonment in 1986 and to return him to such conditions now is nothing less than cruel, inhuman or degrading."

"His re-imprisonment is both harsh and unjustified," he added.

In late May, when Vanunu began to serve his three-month sentence, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz quoted him as saying, "Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons… but no one is talking about it."

Construction work began on Dimona in 1958, and Israel is believed to have manufactured scores of nuclear warheads since the 1960s.

Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that Israel possesses between 200 and 300 nuclear warheads.

However, Tel Aviv has maintained a policy of "nuclear ambiguity" in which it neither confirms nor denies having nuclear weapons.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=131028&sectionid=351020202

2 comments:

eileen fleming said...: 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.”

On March 26, 2006, Vanunu told me:

“Many journalists come here to the American Colony, from CNN and NY Times. They all want to cover my story, but their EDITORS say no…CNN wants to interview me; but they say they can’t do it because they don’t want problems with the Israeli censor. BBC is doing the same thing.
“Sixty Minutes from the United States from the beginning they wanted to do a program, but because of the censor situation they decide not to do it. Also big media from Germany, France, Italy, Japan. None of them wants problems with the Israelis.”

I began the taping of “30 Minutes with Vanunu” with this question:
“If the British Mandate has expired why not the British Mandate’s Emergency Defense Regulations?”

Vaunu replied, “The reason given is security but it is because Israel is not a democracy unless you are a Jew. This administration tells me I am not allowed to speak to foreigners, the Media, and the world. But I do because that is how I prove my true humanity to the world. My freedom of speech trial began January 25, 2006 for speaking to the media, the same day as the Palestinian elections.”

See that interview and learn much more @ http://wearewideawake.org/
THE VANUNU SAGA 2005-2010; 19 June 2010 at 06:15
w said...: eileen fleming said...

In 2005, Vanunu told me:...

Thank you for the link; 20 June 2010 at 01:19

Post a Comment

BLOOD PASSOVER

At the dawn of civilization, the blood rite, in which human blood is drunk from the body of a still-living victim, was known to many tribes. However, only one people, that has never progressed beyond the Stone Age, has continued to practice the blood rite and ritual murder. This people are known to the world as Jews.

The author of this book is not Christian, Muslim or Hindu but a Jew and is the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, and a professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv.

The following translation was performed free of charge to protest an injustice: the destruction by the ADL of Ariel Toaff’s BLOOD PASSOVER on Jewish ritual murder.

They cut this Palestinian kid's arms for "throwing Stones" before murdering him

Repeat: The author is the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, and a professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv.

Dr. Toaff is uniquely qualified to write this book, being thoroughly familiar with the derivative literature in English, French, German and Italian, as well as the original documentary sources in Latin, Medieval Italian, Hebrew and Yiddish. This is not something he worked on in secret. On the contrary, he worked on it openly with his university students and colleagues in Israel for several years; one of his students was even going to publish a paper on the subject. The author is extremely careful about what he says, and his conclusions must be taken seriously. It reads like a detective story.

If it had been published in Israel, in Hebrew, no one would have cared. There are large bodies of literature in Hebrew that Jews do not wish Gentiles to know about. But Dr. Toaff’s announcement of its publication in Italy, in Italian, raised a worldwide firestorm of fury. Under unbearable pressure, the book was withdrawn from publication, and is not to be re-issued.

You can strike a blow against censorship by circulating this text by e-mail or posting in on the Internet. No one can sue hundreds of people.

If the text is all over the Internet, and everybody has it and everybody knows what is in it, the cat will be out of the bag, and it will have to be published – sooner or later.

Come in out of the darkness, and strike a blow for the light.

This is zionism

Friday, 18 June 2010

'Vanunu is a prisoner of conscience'

2 comments:

BLOOD PASSOVER

Adolf Hitler Founder of Israel

'Jews do not proselytize', but it is possible to convert to Judaism

The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews

Authentic Zionist Mein Kampf