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HomeBlogApril 2009 April 18, 2009: : Messing with the Mossad because Big Brother won't RSVP
April 18, 2009: : Messing with the Mossad because Big Brother won't RSVP
April 18, 2009: Messing with the Mossad because Big Brother won't RSVP UPDATE
April 22, 2009 @ end
As I have been contacting Secretary of State Clinton and President
Obama since they took office on this topic and still have been denied a reply, I am
going public with the email I sent on April 15, 2009.
Dear Office of Secretary of State Clinton,
On April 13, 2009 @1:58PM I FAXED a copy of background information:
I
am seeking a statement from the Administration regarding the human
rights abuses and religious persecution of Mordechai Vanunu.
Thank
you for a swift reply as the restrictions that deny Vanunu the RIGHT to
speak to non-Israelis and the RIGHT to leave Israel- where his life is
in danger- expire April 21, 2009.
Eileen Fleming, Correspondent for http://www.arabisto.com Founder http://www.wearewideawake.org/ Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" I
produced "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" because
corporate media has been MIA all during a Freedom of Speech Trial in
Israel. [end email]
My article was a follow up of the
April 10, 2009, Billy Briggs report of his recent dinner conversation
with Vanunu, who informed him that he had been followed, publicly
verbally harassed and then taken "to the local station and warned not
to go to Bethlehem this year to celebrate Christmas. They said they'd
be watching me and that I should also not speak to journalists or
foreigners."
Vanunu has been denied the right to speak to
foreigners since his release from 18 years in an Israeli jail on April
21, 2004. Briggs and I both met Vanunu first in 2005, and that was when
Vanunu explained to me that “The Shin Bet is like the FBI and the
Mossad is like the CIA."
I last saw Vanunu in Nov. 2008, and also noted some of the same changes as Briggs did: "uneasy and downbeat."
But
Brigg's also saw Vanunu when he seemed "more relaxed and sanguine and
talked about writing his autobiography and how he wants to travel the
world when he finally leaves Israel. He says that one day he would like
to meet his "honey trap", Cindy, to have a coffee and to chat about how
their lives turned out. He bears no grudges, he says, despite her
deceit. At one point he even breaks into a smile."[1]
Cindy/Cheryl Hanin Ben Tov has been
living the good life in an exclusive gated community golf course home-
purchased in Hanin's name in 1998 at $528,000.00.
On April 6, 1996, in an investigative report, The St. Petersburg Times, located Cheryl Ben Tov and reported that she continues to work for the Mossad.
It is illegal under American-Israeli diplomatic protocols for the Mossad to operate in America.
In
1986, Hanin was a 26 year old Mossad agent posing as an American
tourist in London. She grew up in Pennsylvania and Orlando in a Jewish
family that owed its affluence to tires.
I moved to
Orlando in the mid 1970's and still can recall her father, Stanley
Hanin, the founder and pitch man for the Allied Discount Tires chain
stores, shrill refrain in his self-produced cheesy TV commercials,
"Tahrs ain't pretty, but you gotta have them!"
As her parents
went through an acrimonious divorce, Hanin embarked upon a long love
affair with the Jewish State. In 1977, she spent a semester in Israel,
studied Hebrew and Jewish history and threw herself into her academic
and religious studies in a three-month residential course funded by the
World Zionist Organization.
Upon graduation in 1978, she joined the Israeli army and married Ofer Ben Tov and then was recruited by the Mossad.
In
1986, "She left Israel to flee the media and the people who burrowed
into her life," a friend in Florida told the Israeli daily, Yedioth
Ahronoth.
"This bothered her a lot. She was terrified. She
felt the need to run. Since this affair Cheryl only wants one thing: a
normal quiet life." [2]
In
March 2006-during but not included- in the "30 Minutes with Vanunu" I
asked him what he was thinking when he took off with Cindy.
Vanunu
maintained eye contact as he replied, "It wasn't like THAT-when
Maxwell's paper published my photo without ever talking to me and some
of the stolen Dimona photos with a very bad story against me, I knew
the Mossad was after me. Cindy said she had a sister in Rome and I
thought I would be safe there until I could return to London.
"We went
to movies and art galleries, I trusted her. But, as soon as I got into
the apartment, I was hit on the head and drugged. When I woke up and
they took me for interrogation, they threw the Times article on the table and said, 'Look, what you did.' I was so relieved they had published it and that I had done what I did."
The London Sunday Times
published a front-page photo of the Dimona reactor and a story that
spread over three pages revealing Israel's arsenal of upwards of 200
nuclear warheads on Oct. 5, 1986, five days after Vanunu was kidnapped
by the Mossad.
Vanunu's case continues to focuses attention on
Israel's nuclear weapons program while Iran, North Korea and other
countries are being pressured to abandon theirs.
On April 5, 2009, in Prague President Obama said:
"We
are here today because enough people ignored the voices who told them
that the world could not change. We're here today because of the
courage of those who stood up and took risks to say that freedom is a
right for all people, no matter what side of a wall they live on, and
no matter what they look like. We are here today because the simple and
principled pursuit of liberty and opportunity shamed those who relied
on the power of tanks and arms to put down the will of a people…
"Words
must mean something…There is violence and injustice in our world that
must be confronted. We must confront it by standing together as free
nations, as free people. I know that a call to arms can stir the souls
of men and women more than a call to lay them down. But that is why the
voices for peace and progress must be raised together…Human destiny
will be what we make of it."
Only God knows
where Vanunu's destiny leads and what he will make of it, but I am
hoping he he gets to have that meeting with Cindy/Cheryl.
I happen
to know someone who lives in the Ben Tov's gated community who will buzz me
through the gated wall that shields the Mossad agents sanctuary. And come
April 21, 2009, if Israel still forbids Vanunu the right to leave the
state, I could make a house call on Cindy/Cheryl, for I live an hour away from
her sanctuary and I know her exact address.
Take a 3-D tour of the Dimona that utilizes Vanunu's photos in this video with English subtitles:
This
week Home Front Command, one of the authorities dealing with Vanunu's
case, called in his attorneys Avigdor Feldman and Michael Sfard to tell
them that the warrants restricting Vanunu's freedom of movement and
speech will remain unchanged. A similar announcement will be made by the
Interior Ministry. Moreover, Vanunu still faces a four-month prison
term for violating the restrictions - because he tried to enter
Bethlehem on Christmas and spoke with foreign reporters. He has appealed
to the Supreme Court.
"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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