WAWA BLOG  August 21, 2007

+updated Sept. 5, 2007

 Vanunu's Other Woman from Florida
Subtitle:  Appeals and Supplications
 


[East Jerusalem: Occupied Territory] +On September 2, 2007, Mordechai Vanunu's appeal was filed to fight the six month jail sentence he received on July 2, 2007, for speaking his mind to foreign media in Israel in 2004.

For the last three years, Mordecahi Vanunu's  speech and movement have been restricted under the British Mandate Emergency Regulations -a relic from the British Mandate period in Palestine-before the state of Israel was founded and replaced British rule in 1948. Nothing like it exists in any democracy in the world. When Vanunu was convicted, he joked, "Perhaps I should turn to the Queen or Tony Blair for justice."

In March 2006, just three months after Vanunu's historic freedom of speech trial in a Mid East democracy began, what played out in court was discussed between us in "30 Minutes with Vanunu" a video commentary by Vanunu on the irony of Israeli democracy implementing the British Mandate Regulations against him and millions of Palestinians, that led him to conclude, "Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew."

Jeff Halper, American Israeli, Founder and Coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions coined the term 'Ethnocracy' to describe Israeli rule; full and equal rights to all Jews, but nobody else. Halper has unequivocally affirmed, "Israeli is not a democracy, it is an Ethnocracy."

The maxim is never meet your hero's, but I am glad I met one of mine. My only regret is that it took me two years to realize the irony and my shortsightedness in not realizing the impossibility of Vanunu trusting another woman from Florida .

From 1986 to 2004, Israel kept Vanunu in a tomb sized cell with no window, most all of it in solitary confinement. Vanunu was drugged and interrogated without legal council and convicted of treason during a closed door trial. For the first two years of incarceration, a camera and light were on constantly. If Vanunu ever did nod off to sleep, "A guard would come and shine a brighter light into my face and say, 'Just checking if you had committed suicide yet.'"

In 2002, President Bush declared U.S. citizen, Jose Padilla an enemy combatant and he was stripped of all rights and detained at a Navy brig in South Carolina where he was held in solitary isolation for 43 months and denied access to an attorney for two years.

Forensic Psychiatrist Angela Hegarty examined Padilla last year and concluded the extreme isolation and torture had left Padilla essentially brain damaged, "What happened at the brig was essentially the destruction of a human being's mind." http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1323250

Padilla is devoid of a personality because of the cruel and inhumane treatment he endured for three and a half years. Vanunu has endured cruel and inhumane punishment for the last twenty-one years and has a challenging personality. Vanunu is justly paranoid for Israeli Security monitors his snail mail, email and telephone calls. He is justifiably angry at the injustice of being prevented from leaving Israel , which is all he has wanted for the last three years.

Speaking to Vanunu in such a place as a post office is guaranteed to gather a swarm of spies of strange kinds, people lacking finesse who would oh, so nonchalantly saunter over to a follow up meeting I requested with Vanunu after crossing paths with him in east Jerusalem . Vanunu insisted we could only meet at the Salah Adin Post Office, next door to the police station. It was not until that meeting, did I realize that this female from Florida had become a part of the Vanunu legend, for both cameras and spies occupy the Salah Adin Post Office.

During my two years of crossing paths with Vanunu scattered amongst five trips to Israel Palestine, I have found Vanunu to be articulate, funny, detached, and distant and I have never failed to ask a question which ended the conversation between us. I crossed paths with Vanunu for the first time most recently o n the third day of my fifth journey to Israel Palestine, July 16, 2007- which is also known as the 9th day of Av, the day the Jewish Temple was destroyed. I was on my way to my hotel on Nablus Road in East Jerusalem just after attending Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions media kick off day for the first of 300 homes to be rebuilt this summer, out of the 18,000 Israel has destroyed since 1967. I was witness to the pouring of the foundation of the new home of the Hamdan clan of nine who still have the deeds to their property that were filled-out during the Ottoman Empire.

In front of me I noticed an old man, hunched over as in the proverbial image of one whose back is breaking under the weight of the world, walking very slowly and talking to himself.

It was not until I passed him by and I recognized the voice that called out to me, "Hi, remember me?"

Then I realized it was Vanunu. I had never seen Vanunu wear sunglasses and he now sports big black frames. Last November, when I saw Vanunu last, he walked as fast as I, [a former New Yorker] but his gait that day, was like any other old man's on the hot streets of Jerusalem in July.

"This is the very spot where they stoned to death the first Christian martyr for freedom of speech," he told me as we had crossed paths in front of St. Stephen's Church. Saint Stephen was the first follower of Jesus to be stoned to death for speaking truth to power 2,000 years ago.

In June 2007, Vanunu emailed me to delete the "30 Minutes with Vanunu" from my website, but he never gave me his reason why. I emailed him back that I could not comply for the video is cross posted on You tube and Information Clearing House and belongs to history. He never emailed me back after that, but now that we were face to face, I asked, "Just exactly why do you want the video deleted from my site?"


 "It's not making any money."

"Look, I have no control over people's generosity or lack."

He smiled when he challenged, "If you want to keep running my video, you should pay me $1,000.00 a month."

We both laughed because his brother Meir had the idea that all the media that caused his recent trial and six months conviction should donate at least a thousand dollars to his defense fund. I defended myself anyway, "Look, I never claimed I was a fundraiser. I am a writer and the only way I can really help you is to keep writing your story and running that video. My little 2005 and 2006 videos belong to history now, and we the people must stand up and claim our liberties and rights, or we don't have them. It is only right that it remains on my site because: '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. ' -Article 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights,  which Israel agreed to uphold and was contingent upon their statehood."

Last November Vanunu was frequently attending political and religious meetings. Nine months ago, he was frequently eating out or having a beer with most anyone who would pick up the tab. In July 2007, Vanunu is still soft-spoken and calm, but spends most all day walking the ancient streets of East Jerusalem alone. He will still stop and speak to anyone who speaks to him, but not to any reporters. He quit hanging out at the American Colony six months ago and has moved three times in a year. He reads the newspapers in his $10.00 a night with breakfast room in a time worn building and eats dinner there alone most every night.

Through the years, Vanunu has spoken to many hundreds of internationals about his torture in prison or of being a small boy in Marrakech, uprooted and sent to the desert of Beersheba, where he wandered the streets of the Old City all alone. A solitary throughout his life, it seems as if Vanunu was being 'groomed' to withstand more years in solitary confinement than any other known human being in all of history ever has.

I met Vanunu for the first time, in June 2005, two months after he learned the news that the restrictions against his movement and speech were renewed for another year and he had just disbanded his American campaign.

When Vanunu met me in June 2005, he thought I was interested in a date with him, and I should have been more cognizant of such an eventuality since he had been locked up for 18 years. But since I have been married nearly as long as Vanunu has been in prison, and because he failed high school English, I explained the English translation of "I am married" to mean: an end to that topic of conversation.

From the moment I met Vanunu, and being nine months older than he, I related to him as a sister and never hesitated to speak to him as I would to any of my blood brothers, or any friend. Trouble was it took me two years to see the tragic-comic irony of Vanunu crossing paths with another woman from Florida and the impossibility he would have to ever be able to trust one. Things I said to Vanunu to be a guide, an FYI, a warning; he perceived as a threat. What else could he think after crossing paths in 1986 with Cindy/Cheryl, American from Florida? It was not until my third visit to Jerusalem in March 2006, did I ask Vanunu about Cindy/Cheryl. In 1986 Vanunu thought she was a beautician on holiday, but Cindy/Cheryl, was a spy for the Mossad.

In 1986, Vanunu left London and flew to Rome with Cindy/Cheryl, just days prior to the London Sunday Times publishing the scientific corroboration to the sixty odd photos Vanunu had taken in the underground Dimona WMD plant that proved Israel had gone nuclear.

Legend has it that Vanunu flew to Rome from London with Cindy/Cheryl, just to have sex, although opportunity for that already existed in London. In March 2006, I brought up the topic and asked Vanunu, "What were you thinking?"

He immediately replied, "No, it wasn't like that. A tabloid paper published a story with some of the photos of the Dimona I had taken. They never contacted me for my side of the story but they published my photo with a bad report; lots of lies. I knew I was in danger and I wasn't sure if the Times would still print my story. I thought I would just leave London with her for a few days."

When Vanunu arrived in Rome at what he thought was Cindy/Cheryl's sister's home, he was clubbed, drugged, bound and transported back to Israel in either a small yacht or a cargo ship. Just prior to being driven to his closed door trial, Vanunu had been inspired to write his Rome flight number and the word 'HIJACKED" upon his palm and press it to the window of the van he was being transported in. His inspired move was immortalized by a photographer and so inflamed the Israeli government, that afterwards, when ever Vanunu was being transported to his closed door trial, windows were curtained and he was made to wear a helmet on his head.

Vanunu was naïve not to imagine he would be trapped in such a way, and from the few hours of being in his presence, I can believe he was indeed that naïve. I also laugh every time he accuses me of being, too naïve too.

 In July 2007, he was laughing when he said, "You are too naïve. You think you're going to change anything with your website? Maybe a few hundred people a day read anything you say."

I replied, "I know I am just one voice in the wilderness, but there are more like me all the time and all we have are words to fight with. I have a link on my site that tells me the U.S. Government and Military visit me daily, and even if Big Brother were my only readers, it is worth it to me to speak out and agitate them with the truth. It is the right thing to do."


Every time I see Vanunu I always remind him that when I was a child, my dream was to grow up and become Brenda Starr, the ace investigative journalist of the Sunday Comics. Vanunu laughed the last time I brought it up, but when I first told him about Brenda in June 2005, he thought I was nuts for I told him I was convinced that his story would wake up American Christians about the truth in the Holy Land, and I was going to do all I could to tell them his story. Just like Brenda would.

I also told Vanunu how a little boy of Beit Jala, a suburb on the west side of the Little Town of Bethlehem, irrevocably changed my life and how he-Vanunu got caught up in my mind with that little boy of Bethlehem. George's face adorns the banner of my homepage. His photo was taken in 2000, by photographer Debbie Hill, the morning after the Israeli army destroyed his bedroom in retaliation for a few hopeless militants who had infiltrated his once peaceful Christian village to snipe across the way into the illegal settlement/colony of Gilo.

The shrapnel that pierced the wall of George's sanctuary read 'Made in USA ' and was delivered via American made Apache helicopters.

The second I saw George's eyes, in the photo that was first published by the Florida Catholic, my heart said "DO SOMETHING!"

What could I possibly do I wondered, but I did make a copy of the photo, put it in a frame and placed it upon the altar [a bar high table] in the upper room of my home. Dozens of times a day, I would stop and gaze into the eyes of that little boy of Bethlehem and beg God to end the insane cycle of violence in the Holy Land for the sake of all the children who live there and free me from the incessant voice that demands:

"DO SOMETHING!"

All these years later, every time I look at George's eyes-or even think about him-the persistent voice continues the incessant refrain:

"DO SOMETHING!"

When I met George for the first time in June 2005, I vowed to him that the rest of my life will be dedicated to doing all I could to help bring about the end of the occupation of Palestine, which has now entered its 40th year.

In April 2005, two months before my first trip to Israel Palestine, I tuned the TV on and the History channel appeared. They were broadcasting a show called, "Sexpionage" all about Russian female spies and one from the Mossad.

The very clip that ran before my eyes was of Vanunu being transported to his closed door trial depicting his inspired move to write upon his palm: "HIJACKED" and the Rome flight number he had been on. It was the first time I had seen that historic clip and also of Shimon Perez in 1986 stating that Israel would never be the first in the Mid East to possess nuclear weapons.

When a black and white photo of a bearded, unkempt and disheveled Vanunu filled the TV screen, I thought his eyes looked just like George's of Beit Jala's, and I heard in my heart:

"Do Something!"

Vanunu's eyes are nothing like George's of Beit Jala. Vanunu's eyes can be 52, 92, 16 or 6, because Vanunu is all of those ages. Vanunu may never speak to the media again, he may never write his own story. But he has said more with his life than a million words ever could about a solitary man who spoke truth in a democracy that America fully supports which denies the right of a human being the inalienable right to speak to any other and the freedom to leave a place that doesn't feel like home.

On my last afternoon in Jerusalem in July, 2007, I crossed paths with Vanunu again very near to St. Stephens Church. But, that's another story...

Learn More:

"30 Minutes With Vanunu" freely streaming on this site

Eileen Fleming, Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory, "Brother V", pages 95-115.

http://www.fatherdave.org/Books/Letters%20from%20Solitary%20SE.pdf

From USA checks for Vanunu's appeal can be mailed to:

Postal Credit Union
8499 Tamarack Road
Woodbury, MN 55125

Account Name: Trust For Mordechai Vanunu
Account Number: 8785737S1

Everywhere else in the world donate through Vanunu's Pay Pal @ www.vanunu.com

PS: Israel has held up his snail mail for months.

On the third day of my fifth journey to Israel Palestine, on July 16, 2007-which is also known as the 9th day of Av, the day the Jewish Temple was destroyed, I was on my way down Nablus Road in East Jerusalem just after attending Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions media kick off day for the first of 300 homes to be rebuilt this summer, out of the 18,000 Israel has destroyed.

I was witness to the pouring of the foundation of the new home of the Hamdan clan of nine who still have the deeds to their property that were filled-out during the Ottoman Empire.

In front of me I noticed an old man, hunched over shoulders, walking very slowly and talking to himself.

It was not until I passed him by and I recognized the voice that called out to me, "Hi, do you remember me?"

That I realized it was Vanunu.

I was on my way back to the American Colony for a swim when we crossed paths in front of St. Stephen’s Dominican Church on Nablus Road.

Vanunu told me, "This is the spot where they stoned to death the first Christian martyr for freedom of speech."

St. Stephen was indeed the very first Christian martyr to be stoned to death for speaking truth to power...

Vanunu isn't giving any more interviews, because, "All the interviews I have given, haven't helped me."

I told him, it's not over yet!......

Just before my first of five journeys to Israel Palestine, a Palestinian American friend warned me, “Don’t visit Vanunu, if you see him; don’t speak to him. He’s not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble.”

I responded, “OK, I won’t track him down, but Jerusalem is a small town and if our paths cross, I will speak to him. What kind of government is that, that will tell a human being who they can and cannot talk with?”

I met Vanunu for the first time in June 2005 and he told me, "When I was in prison my mother came to me and told me that I was suffering because I was a Christian. I know I caused them a lot of pain and they have suffered because of my case. I forgive them even though they rejected me and my Christian faith. I have always thought for myself and made up my own mind.

“I really had no idea what I was doing by getting baptized a Christian, I just felt like I had to do it. It was my way to be a new being. It wasn’t until after my trial that I started to read the New Testament. While I was in prison I would read aloud for ½ hour twice a day. I would read the entire New Testament and begin it again when I finished the Book of Revelation. I did this for me as well as for my captors. Not so much the prison guards but the ones who watched me on camera 24 hours a day.

“The Shen Beet, you know like the FBI and the Mossad, like your CIA were watching me constantly. They tortured me by keeping a light on in my cell constantly for two years. They told me it was because they were afraid I would commit suicide, and the oppressive camera was for my safety. They recruited the guards and other prisoners to irritate me. They would deprive me of sleep by making loud noises near my cell all night long.

“I chose to read them 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 instead; Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with THE TRUTH! It always protects, it always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.

“My human rights have been denied me because I am a Christian. When I was on trial I was treated just like a Palestinian; no human rights at all and cruel and unusual punishment, all because I told the truth.

“The only real way to worship is in loving one’s enemies. It was not easy to love my tormentors, it was only because I felt so much like Jesus crucified on the cross, and me crucified in prison, that I could do it. It was not ever easy. I have forgiven but not forgotten anything and I never will.

“In Israel, a life sentence is 25 years. Even murderers go free after 17. They imposed the same restrictions on me that Palestinians receive; no human rights at all.

“The only way to peace is peace; the only way is non-violence. The only answer to Israeli nuclear weapons, their aggression, occupation and oppression, the wall and refugee camps is to answer them with truth and a peace-full voice. When I became the spy for the world I did it all for the people of the world.

"If governments do not report the truth, if media does not report the truth, all we can do is follow our conscience. Daniel Ellsberg did, the woman from Enron did, and I did. The USA needs to wake up and see the truth that Israel is not a democracy unless you are a Jew.

"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where America can right now find WMD’s. America can also find where basic human rights have been denied Christians, right here in Israel.”

During my March 2006 interview with Vanunu he told me, “When I decided to expose Israel’s nuclear weapons I acted out of conscience and to warn the world to prevent a nuclear holocaust. The Israeli media demonized me. They published many lies about me and Israel kept me totally isolated in prison for most of the 18 years. I am also regarded as a traitor because I was baptized a Christian.

“My Christian conversion was also considered as treason and led to me receiving more time in jail than any murderer has ever served. The Israelis have this very beautiful article about freedom and liberty but they want to destroy anyone who criticizes them for revealing the truth to the world. The world must look and see what kind of democracy Israel is when one speaks out the truth.”

“It’s very sad that Hillary Clinton went to the Jewish Wailing Wall and forgot the real crying wall is the Palestinian wall...the apartheid wall... the wall is not for defense, but to keep this conflict permanent...the people who need the help are the Palestinian Christians. We need all Christians to come and see the true facts on the ground.

“The Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years. The Dimona has never been inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but all the Arab states have...Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now.

“The Israelis have 200 atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and Muslims of terrorism. The world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the Palestinians have
lived under that terror regime for 40 years.

“Israel propaganda portrays all Palestinians as Muslim extremists and Hamas terrorists and neglect that Palestinian Christians are following the true message of Jesus Christ with nonviolent resistance. We need all Christians to come and see the truth for themselves. Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew."

I once wrote an Op-ed that stated that Vanunu was also a prophet. When he read the piece, he emailed me and in bold letters wrote: “DON’T CALL ME THAT!”

I won’t to his face, but in the spirit of freedom of speech, I cannot help myself. Prophets do NOT predict the future-as much as they point out impending doom. Vanunu pointed the way to the weapons of mass destruction program underground in the Negev desert, and they have yet to receive an International Inspection.

The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah also spent much of his life under house arrest in Jerusalem, for being a truth teller. We know more about the personal life and struggles of Jeremiah than any other Hebrew prophet. Jeremiah, which translates as “The Lord throws”-as in hurling, had few friends and is considered primarily a prophet of doom.

Jeremiah was intensely introspective, self-critical, timid by nature but honest and open about his feelings. Jeremiah never married and began prophesying in Judah from 604-586, a time of storm and stress when the doom of entire nations-including Judah itself-was being sealed. Jeremiah had been the king's friend and confident, but the prophet soon entered a dreary round of persecution and imprisonment, alternating with only brief periods of freedom, and lived under virtual house arrest.

Jeremiah was also labeled a traitor by many for speaking truth to power, “I cannot keep silent…Disaster follows disaster; the land lies in ruins…My people are fools; they do not know me.”-Jeremiah 4:19.

Vanunu will appeal his six month jail sentence for speaking to professional media in 2004, this September.

This civilian journalist is freely streaming my 2005, 2006 interviews with Vanunu with HOPE that people will be moved to donate to his Pay Pal Defense Fund @

http://www.vanunu.com 

By mail:

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 On April 30, 2007 , in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, Mordechai Vanunu was convicted on 14 [out of 21] counts of violating a court order prohibiting him from speaking to foreign journalists in 2004.

Vanunu was also convicted for traveling the four miles 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 [most of it in solitary] on April 21, 2004.

On July 2, 2007 he was sentenced to six more months in jail and a six month suspended sentence.

In 2004, "60 Minutes" [in Australia, NOT CBS] and Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow! both interviewed Vanunu.

Neither has yet to do a follow up, but The New Fourth Estate; civilian journalists/bloggers have.

Annually, for the last twenty years Mordechai Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This year, Vanunu has been nominated by Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Prize in 1984, for his courageous and fearless opposition against the South African apartheid system.

Instead of Christmas Mass, Vanunu spent the night in jail and charged with attempting to flee Israel. Vanunu also has no passport and has been held under the draconian 1945 British Mandate State of Emergency Regulations, which forbids him from leaving Israel and speaking to media and foreigners, these last three years since his release.

Following the verdict, Vanunu pointed out, "Perhaps I should turn to the Queen or Tony Blair for justice...All that I want is to be free, to leave the country." http://www.serve.com/vanunu/20070430haaretz.html

Israel's statehood was contingent upon its upholding of the UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

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. -Article 19 UDHR

Vanunu's historic freedom of speech trial began on January 25, 2006 and concluded on February 2, 2007. The court brought 21 charges against him for giving interviews to foreign media in 2004: but the professional paid media has been missing in action during this historic trial.

Back in 1986, when Vanunu was only a low tech worker in Israel's WMD facility, he easily obtained the keys to the restricted areas after they had been carelessly left in the shower room. Vanunu was able to shoot two rolls of film in the underground WMD facility without detection that proved to the world that Israel was nuclear in 1986.

Instead of Israel being grateful for the alert to the inadequate security in the nuclear reactor facility, they kidnap and lock Vanunu up for 18 years, most all of it in solitary. Vanunu has not set foot into the Dimona in 21 years and International Inspectors never have.

On April 21, 2004, Vanunu was released.

But, NOT free.

He has lived under the draconian 1945 British Mandate State of Emergency Regulations, which forbids him from leaving Israel and speaking to media and foreigners.

I met Vanunu for the first time in June 2005, and I learned about his childhood and why and how he became a Christian just a few weeks before being clubbed, drugged and kidnapped by the Mossad then undergoing a closed door trial.

In March 2006, Vanunu told me,"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."

Although 'free' for the last three years, "Vanunu has suffered a spate of verbal attacks and threats as a result of his activism from Zionists, both Jewish and Christian. However, given the fact that Israel's nuclear capability is no longer a secret, he feels that the attacks are personal in nature and tied to the fact that he "abandoned the tribe" by converting to Christianity."
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/...

In May 2006, Vanunu informed American Free Press correspondent, Mark Glenn, "that this was something that was a common theme during his prison term, where he would receive regular visits from Shin Bet and Mossad agents who would dangle the bait of parole in front of him if he would just renounce his conversion and "return to the fold." His comments concerning his conversion reveal why "interested parties" might engage in a program of vindictiveness against him:

"In the same way that Jesus criticized Judaism 2,000 years ago, I was unwilling to accept what they teach. The Jews believe that there is only one Chosen People of God and preach their superiority. I decided that after 2,000 years these ideas were nonsense. There are 6 billion people around the world, all equal, all part of the human race. There is no such thing as a super race.

"We should all respect and love each other, and that was the beginning of my rejecting Judaism and accepting the teachings of Jesus Christ and of accepting humanity. Those who teach Judaism control and ruin the lives of those under them, telling them what they must do every hour of every day, but at the same time they do not teach them to respect non-Jews as human beings. This is Judaism, a collection of primitive traditions thousands of years old that has not changed."

He added that "the Jews came to Palestine in the name of their god and took this land and expelled the people and gave them hard, cruel, barbaric lives for the last 60 years. This way of thinking, this faith, cannot exist within this new age, and it was this that also led me to expose Israel's nuclear secrets." http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/...

In June 2005 and March 2006, Vanunu informed this civilian journalist:

"The Shen Beet, you know like the FBI and the Mossad, like your CIA were watching me constantly. They tortured me by keeping a light on in my cell constantly for two years. They told me it was because they were afraid I would commit suicide, and the oppressive camera was for my safety. They recruited the guards and other prisoners to irritate me. They would deprive me of sleep by making loud noises near my cell all night long.

"The Israelis have 200 atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and Muslims of terrorism. The Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years. The Dimona has never been inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but all the Arab states have."

"Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now. The world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the Palestinians have lived under that terror regime for 40 years.

"It's very sad that Hillary Clinton went to the Jewish Wailing Wall and forgot the real crying wall is the Palestinian wall; the apartheid wall, the wall is not for defense, but to keep this conflict permanent.

"Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew."

On May 13th Vanunu learned that all the restrictions against him will continue another year.

On June 25, 2007 he will learn how much more time he will spend behind bars for speaking his mind in a Mid East 'Democracy'.

This civilian journalist wonders if "30 Minutes with Vanunu" will be the NEXT testimony used against him in the 'democracy' of Israel.

This civilian journalist, a member of The New Fourth Estate will feel a sense of RESPONSIBILITY if it is.

I wonder too, if feeling a sense of responsibility just might be the difference between paid professional journalists and The New Fourth Estate; who do NOT take orders from Editors or paychecks from conglomerates.

Vanunu's June 2005 message to USA Christians and my March 2006 video interview: "30 Minutes With Vanunu" can be accessed under "Vanunu Archives" far right side under the WAWA Banner