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May 13, 2009: Open Letter to the Mossad Published May 12, 2009 10:30 AM EST
On
Mother's Day I mailed the following letter to Cindy/Cheryl Hanin Ben Tov, the
Mossad agent that befriended and then trapped Mordechai Vanunu in 1986. As
Cheryl lives an hour's drive away and I printed my home address on the outside
of the greeting card envelope, I go public today:
Dear
Cheryl,
I
am the reporter who has been following Mordechai Vanunu's freedom of speech
trial and streaming 2005, 2006, 2008 video of him. In my second book, I wrote
my first four experiences of Vanunu and I am now in process of writing my third
book which will include much more, but I will not publish it until I can
rewrite the final page which currently reads:
[Regarding:
Vanunu's freedom of speech trial which began January 2006]
Attorney Michael Sfard
repeatedly requested Police Representative Mr. Peterburg to specifically state
what type of espionage activity Vanunu was accused of. According to Vanunu,
“The policeman did not have any answers and said that he brought all the
evidence to the court. When Sfard asked him again about any material related to
the espionage charge, Peterburg had no answers.
“Sfard proved that the
police had misled the judges who gave the orders to arrest me: to search my
room, to go through my email, to confiscate my computers and that they misled
Microsoft to believe they are helping in a case of espionage. The State came to
the court with two special secret Government orders, called Hisaion, which are
documents or information that are deemed confidential by the government and
kept from the court, the defendant, and lawyers. This allows the prosecution to
keep documents related to my court hearing secret. One was from the Minister
for Interior Security and one from the Minister of Defense.”
According to Vanunu, his
secretly taped police interrogations, his 2004 Christmas Eve arrest for
“attempting to leave the country” while traveling the four miles from Jerusalem
to Bethlehem, the confiscation of his private property by thirty IDF that
stormed into his room at St. George’s Cathedral had all “been done…under the
false and misleading statements to the courts of ‘suspicion of espionage’, and
yet they are not charging me with spy crimes. And the fact is that I have not
committed any crimes.”
As of this writing Vanunu
and the Palestinians are still waiting for the Jewish State to do Micah 6:8:
“What does the Lord require? He has already told you o’man! Be just, be
merciful and walk humbly with your God.”
My
point in writing you is that I have hope that you can be moved by conscience to
do something to help Vanunu go free, and you should know that on April 11,
2009, Billy Brigg's reported Vanunu continues to say, "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."
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.
"What
is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the
rest is commentary. Go and learn it."-Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a [End of
letter]
The
reason I believe the woman from the Mossad can be moved by conscience is that
she is still a human being and also a mother and perhaps a grandmother by now.
I know a few of her neighbors and in fact, am close to someone who knows
someone who dated her in high school. I imagine that for her children's sake she may welcome an opportunity to do something to relieve
her conscience-that is if she still has one-and only God knows that.
On April 6, 1996, an
investigative report by The St.
Petersburg Times, located Cheryl Hanin 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, Cheryl 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. As her parents went through an acrimonious
divorce, Cheryl embarked upon a 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, a friend in Florida told the Israeli daily, Yedioth
Ahronoth, "She left Israel to flee the media and the
people who burrowed into her life. 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."
Vanunu also has the right to one too, and the first step requires leaving the Jewish
State where his life is in danger from Zionist zealots, whose goal is to "dramatically alter the "holy basin" — the sensitive area in and
around the Old City that is home to sites holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims…
The government has largely kept the plan secret, not soliciting input from the
city's Christians and Muslims or opening it to objections from the public" reported Matti
Friedman, Associated Press Writer in Jerusalem on May 12, 2009.
"An
Israeli government plan to develop parks, hiking trails and tourist sites in
east Jerusalem will permanently change
the landscape of the contested city and cement Israel's hold there, an Israeli
group charged in a report released Sunday ahead of the pope's visit to the
city.
"It's
being done in a way that is opaque, with no public knowledge, without
coordination with the churches or with the Muslim Waqf, in the precise opposite
of transparent terms," Daniel Seidemann, [Israeli attorney]. [1]
Under
international law, it is illegal for Israel to annex east Jerusalem and the OldCity, which they captured in
the 1967 War. Second to the right of refugees to return to their homes or even
to be compensated for their loss, the issue of Jerusalem is the most intractable
issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and most necessary to justly address
as a shared capitol for Israel and Palestine.
Pope
Benedict XVI's first visit to Jerusalem, is shining a light on this dispute
over the city including the demolitions of Palestinian homes to make way for
the construction of Jewish only neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
Anglican
Rev. Naim Ateek, founder of Sabeel [Arabic for The Way] Ecumenical Christian
Liberation Theology organization who relate to the Palestinian Jewish Jesus,
who was always NONVIOLENT but never silent in the face of injustice stated, "Jerusalem cannot be the monopoly of
one religion or one state. We hope that the voice of his holiness the Pope is
that Jerusalem must be shared."
[Ibid]
The light also
must continue to shine upon the ongoing injustices Israel inflicts upon Vanunu by continuing
to deny him the right to speak to non-Israelis, so on Mother's Day,
along with a prayer I mailed my letter to Mrs. Ben Tov with my return address
on the outside of the greeting card envelope.
I do not expect a reply, but I do
imagine a few phone calls will be made and a few more visitors will read my
site today. My hope is that consciences will be pricked because this little
American reporter is not afraid to contact the Mossad and I want them to know that in order for America to remain the
home of the FREE and the brave- freedom of conscience, speech and press are
necessary and inalienable human rights that must be seized if they are to be reality.
Thus, I hereby and unequivocally affirm that the Jewish State's continuing
persecution of Vanunu, an ex-Orthodox Jew baptized a Christian just day's
before meeting the woman from the Mossad who betrayed him as Judas betrayed
Jesus- with a kiss-can still change course from self-destruct and choose to do Micah
6:8.
Just weeks after his FREEDOM OF SPEECH TRIAL began the whistle blower of Israel's underground WMD Facility
sent this message to Senator
Clinton and USA Christians re: The Apartheid Wall. Excerpted from "30
Minutes with Vanunu"
freely streaming @ http://www.wearewideawake.org
Related links:
The
Jewish State VS Mordechai Vanunu: A Case of Christian Persecution
"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