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HomeBlogApril / May 2012 May 6, 2012: TO: Mossad/Shabak RE: Your Vendetta against Israeli nuclear Whistle Blower Vanunu Mord
May 6, 2012: TO: Mossad/Shabak RE: Your Vendetta against Israeli nuclear Whistle Blower Vanunu Mord
May 6, 2012: TO: Mossad/Shabak RE: Your Vendetta against Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower, Vanunu Mordechai
On May 2, 2012, Israeli press reported that the Military Censor announced that
the Israeli Defense Forces have launched a new system to monitor information on
Facebook, Twitter, blogs and news sites.
“The new system will examine information using
keywords labeled in advance.” [1]
None replied, but I feel my message might have gotten through to Power
for Vanunu disappeared from TWITTER a few hours after I received this message on
May 1st via a private FB message from
Hi. Today they sent first notice, they will renew the restrictions.sent to my Lawyer. Now you are free,we can close the Cause.either you do it or I will do it. I am going to deactivate my Facebook,very soon.
A few hours later, Vanunu Mordechai’s image at
Free
Mordechai Vanunu had become a ghost. A few days later I resumed my previous
position as lone administrator, but that is another long story and as this is
an ongoing series I punt it forward.
Free Mordechai
Vanunu currently are 5,536
strong and new members join daily. No doubt the least we are doing is being a
gnat in the eye, a mosquito on the neck and a royal pain in the ass to all who
want the world to forget that all Vanunu did twenty-six years ago was tell the
truth and provide the photographic proof that led nuclear physicist, Frank
Barnaby to testify at Vanunu’s closed door trial:
"I found Vanunu very straightforward about his motives for violating
Israel's secrecy laws he explained to me that he believed that both the Israeli
and the world public had the right to know about the information he passed on.
He seemed to me to be acting ideologically.
"Israel's political leaders
have, he said, consistently lied about Israel's nuclear-weapons programme and
he found this unacceptable in a democracy. The knowledge that Vanunu had about
Israel's nuclear weapons, about the operations at Dimona, and about security at
Dimona could not be of any use to anyone today. He left Dimona in October
1985." [2]
Now, as Vanunu had sent out less than thirty TWEETS to less than thirty
followers, the very fact that he disappeared from TWITTER and Facebook is no
doubt due to pressure from SECURITY/Mossad/Shabbak and their many
helpers known as Sayanim,
who monitor this reporter.
I invite all to read me, but WHY can’t we
talk? After all, I have sent YOU via Vanunu’s gmail and yahoo accounts many
alerts to my articles about Vanunu with the Subject: SECURITY ALERT!
And here’s WHY I do, what I do and WHY I won't shut
up:
“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it
bothers no one else” is a line in “The HELP” by Kathryn Stockett.
When I read it, I took it as a message from God,
for that is exactly what i have been doing since THAT DAY we call 9/11
And after a serendipitous meeting with Vanunu on the first day of summer in
2005, which was five days before I departed back to USA from my first of seven trips
to Israel Palestine, we began a series of interviews focused on his childhood
in an Orthodox Jewish home in Marrakech. I was most interested in his crisis of faith and
culture which began when his family resettled in Beersheba in 1963.
Vanunu was nine
while America was grieving the incomprehensible loss of President Kennedy and I am nine months older than Vanunu. My initial interest
was and remains in Vanunu's welfare which requires his freedom from 24/7 surveillance and the right to fade into the world. As a sister/friend, I pray for his endurance in what I see as his crucifixion of twenty-six years because he told The TRUTH about Israel’s
nukes and became a Christian-the 'unpardonable sin' for particular Jews.
A few weeks before being kidnapped by the Mossad in
1986, Vanunu stumbled into Christianity and within minutes of emerging from his
windowless tomb sized cell on 21 April 2004, Vanunu announced,
"I am not harming Israel. I am not interested
in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18
years because I am a Christian, because I was baptized into Christianity. If I
was a Jew I wouldn't have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years.
Only because I was a Christian man."
On April 30, 2007, the Jerusalem
Magistrate's Court, convicted Vanunu on 14 [out of 21] counts of violating a
court order prohibiting him from speaking to foreign journalists.
Vanunu was also convicted for traveling
from Jerusalem to Bethlehem when he hoped to attend Christmas Eve mass at the
Church of the Nativity, his first Christmas after being released from 18 years
in jail.
On July 2, 2007, Israel sentenced
Vanunu to six months in jail for speaking to foreign media in 2004.
Two days before President Bush's first trip
to Israel and a day before Vanunu's appeal was to begin, Israel sentenced him
to community service instead.
On Feb. 5, 2008, Vanunu met with prison officials to arrange community service
and learned that to his "surprise they say there is no community service
in East Jerusalem. I told them the agreement for community service was on this
condition that it will be only in the East Jerusalem. They say no one told them
about this… I will do community service in the East Jerusalem or the appeal
begins and may be the prison sentence."
On September 23, 2008, the Jerusalem
District Court reduced Vanunu’s sentence to three months, "In light of
(Vanunu’s) ailing health and the absence of claims that his actions put the
country’s security in jeopardy."
In November 2009, Vanunu suffered another
crisis of faith and “fired God” from his case.
He emailed me the long version of his spin
on 1 Corinthians 13, but also went public on his You Tube Channel:
"
And if I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and speak in the tongues of men
and angels, BUT HAVE NO FREEDOM, I am NOTHING. And if I have all faith so as to
remove mountains, but have not FREEDOM, I am NOTHING."
1
FREEDOM 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not
FREEDOM, I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And if I have
prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so
as to remove mountains, but have not FREEDOM, I am nothing.
On May 23, 2010, Israel sent Vanunu back to
solitary confinement in a maximum prison facility and released him on August 8,
2010.
Vanunu emerged on fire and immediately became
active on Facebook. Within a short time had nearly 1,000 Facebook Friends, but soon
whittled them down to 46.
I was one of the many he “fired” and how we began
conversing again is another long story that I will punt forward.
Vanunu’s appeal seeking to revoke his
Israeli citizenship as a way to leave Israel is scheduled for July 2012 and can
be read at his Youtube Channel which as of this writing remains online as does his website with his contact
info: http://vanunu.com/
On 24 April
2004, Uri Avnery wrote:
"Everybody understands that Vanunu
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." [2]
Also in 2004, Haaretz reporter, Yossi Melman wrote:
"This
is the secret that hasn't yet been told in the affair: the story of the
security fiasco that made it possible for Vanunu to do what he did, and the
story of the subsequent attempts at cover-up, whitewashing and protection of
senior figures in the defense establishment, who were bent on divesting
themselves of responsibility for the failure. The 18-year prison term to which
Vanunu was sentenced is almost exactly the same period as that in which Yehiel
Horev has served as chief of internal security in the defense establishment
[who has been] involved in the affair as deputy chief of security at the
Defense Ministry, and also after Vanunu's abduction and arrest, as a member of
an investigative commission.
"Shortly after taking office as chief of security at the Defense Ministry,
Horev began to take punitive measures to hobble Vanunu. He is responsible for
the harsh conditions in which Vanunu was held, which included years in solitary
confinement, and the sharp limitations on the number of visitors he could
have…[and has fought] a rearguard battle to prevent Vanunu from leaving Israel
and to place him under supervision and restrictions that will be tantamount to
house arrest. Horev has always been considered the strictest of all the
security chiefs in Israel, especially in regard to the protection of
institutions such as the Dimona facility and the Biological Institute. He is
apprehensive that if Vanunu goes abroad, he will continue to be a nuisance by
stimulating the public debate over Israel's nuclear policy and the nuclear
weapons he says Israel possesses…all the hyperactivity being displayed by Horev
and those who support his approach is intended only to divert attention from
what has not yet been revealed: the security blunders and their
cover-ups." [Ibid]
I was NOT a
reporter in 2005, but I became one after 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." [Ibid]
In
2005, Vanunu also shared his dream of, “Leaving Israel. Having
a job. A home. A family.”
Vanunu
turns 58 this October 13th.
The last time I saw him in 2009, he
told me that he endures his open-air captivity by escaping into opera.
"Opera inspires me, it gives me strength. When
I was twenty-two I stopped listening to pop; The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Bob
Dylan. I like challenges and began listening to opera. It builds skyscrapers in
my mind. Opera is nutrition for the brain. Opera enlarges and develops the
brain. Opera speaks to my brain…
“Every morning I am in my room until eleven listening to opera. I find ways to
enjoy myself as my way of resistance. I transform anger into positive
energy."
Vanunu is a fan of Wagner, but this little sister recommends
Beethoven’s only opera in which he expressed his dream for humanity-a liberation
into true sister-brotherhood.
I also plead with all who have read this far to do something now:
Petition your political reps to help FREE Vanunu and request your Media report on his next scheduled appeal to be heard in July seeking to revoke his citizenship as a way to leave Israel:
"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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