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May 22, 2010: Email from and "something else" about Mordechai Vanunu
From: Vanunu Mordechai
J C.
To:[me] Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM
Subject: SHAME ON
YOU
SHAME ON YOU.
ISRAEL VERY STUPID SPIES.
MOSSAD SHABACK FOR PUTTING ME
BACK IN PRISON AFTER 24 YEARS FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
SHAME ON YOU. ISRAEL MEDIA STUPID SPIES, HAAREZ EDIOT AHARONOT MAARIVE FOR SELF
DECEPTION.
SHAME ON YOU. ISRAEL
DEMOCRACY, KNESET=BET KNESET=SINAGOUGS DEMOCRACY FOR NOT LEARNING IN 2000 YEARS
THAT THE BASIC RIGHT IN DEMOCRACY IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
SHAME ON YOU. ALL WORLD MEDIA BBC PPC CNN ABC CBS NBC FOX SKY HERALD TRIBUNE
NEW YORK TIMES AND ALL THE WORLD MEDIA NRK NHK STA WD ZDF 24 FRANCE ALZAJJIRA
SUNDAY TIMES FOR LET SUCH CASE HAPPENING AND NOT PROTECT FREEDOM OF
SPEECH.
SHAME ON YOU ALL THE ARABS STUPID SPIES FROM EGYPT TO DUBAI
SAUDI,LEBANON.JORDAN FOR LET ME GO BACK TO PRISON.
SHAME ON YOU. US SENATE CONGRESS WHITE HOUSE. UN IAEA MOHAMED ELBARADY FOR NOT
PROTECTING MY FREEDOM.
SHAME ON YOU ALL THE
RELIGIOUS STUPID SPIES JEWS, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIMS, BIG SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT
BRINGING MY RELEASE IN 24 YEARS, RELIGION IS BIG BULLSHIT SHOW,
SHAME ON YOU.ALL THE WORLD STUPID SPIES CIA FBI MI5 MI6 AND ALL THE STUPID
SPIES OF EVERY STATE WHO WANT ME BACK IN PRISON YOU WILL NOT GET ANY THING FROM
ME.
FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM WILL SURVIVE AND CONTINUE FOR EVER,
VMJC
FREEDOM
AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW.
VANUNU MORDECHAI John
Crossman.
KIDNAPPED IN ROME SEP' 30 TH'-1986.
18 YEARS IN ISRAEL PRISON.OUT IN APR'-21-2004.
Waiting In East Jerusalem. To Be
Free,To Leave . YouTube - vanunuvmjc
http:/www.vanunu.com
Email.
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A
brief background:
Beginning
in 1986, Mordechai Vanunu’s life was sacrificed on the altar of TRUTH largely because THE MEDIA failed at its commission to go, seek and report THE TRUTH, no
matter how inconvenient, ugly or brutal.
"Vanunu told the world that Israel had developed
between one hundred and two hundred atomic bombs [in 1986!] and had gone on to
develop neutron bombs and thermonuclear weapons. Enough to destroy the entire
Middle East and nobody has done anything about it since."-Peter Hounam, 2003
for the BBC.
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 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, Israel sentenced Vanunu to six more months in jail for speaking
to foreign media in 2004.
On September 23, 2008, the Jerusalem District Court reduced
Mordechai Vanunu’s six-month jail sentence for speaking with foreign media in
2004, 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."
Vanunu returned to jail on May 23, 2010,
because the Israeli Supreme Court refused his offer to do community service in
occupied east Jerusalem, as they do not view that side of town to be a part of
their community.
The
restrictions that have held Vanunu captive ever since he emerged from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell for telling THE TRUTH, come from the Emergency Defense
Regulations, which were implemented by Britain against Palestinians and Jews
after World War II.
Attorney Yaccov Shapiro, who later became Israel's Minister Of Justice,
described the Emergency Defense Regulations as "unparalleled in any
civilized country: there were no such laws in Nazi Germany."
Israel kidnapped Vanunu in 1986, but Article 9 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights states: "No one shall he subjected to arbitrary
arrest or detention", including abduction of a person by agents of one
state to another state.
Vanunu was charged with and convicted of treason and espionage.
Section 99 of the Israeli Penal Code, treason is defined as "an act
calculated to assist (an enemy) in time of war...delivering information with
the intention that it fall into the hands of the enemy."
Section 113 defines aggravated espionage as "deliver(ing) any secret
information without being authorized to do so and with intent to impair the
security of the state" and a sub-clause provides for a penalty of seven
years for the unauthorized collection, preparation, recording or holding of
secret information; if this is done with intent to impair the security of the
state and then, the penalty is increased to 15 years.
Vanunu served 18 years in jail and has been subjected to 24/7 surveillance ever
since 21 April 2004.
During my interviews with Vanunu, he informed me that, "All the secrets I
had were published in 1989 in an important book, by Frank Barnaby, The
Invisible Bomb: Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East."
Frank Barnaby, the Nuclear Physicist, who was hired by the
London Sunday Times to interrogate Vanunu, testified at his closed door
trial, "I very vigorously cross-examined Vanunu, relentlessly asking
the same questions in a number of different ways and at different times...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."
But, Vanunu was rendered defenseless during that closed door trial when the
court ruled that his motivations were not ideological and they refused to allow
Vanunu's own statements regarding his intentions to even be considered in his
defense.
On November 24th, 2006 Vanunu wrote:
"My lawyer succeeded to reveal a
few very important facts: This General of the Army also was not allowed to see
all the secrets that he is required to protect by these restrictions that they
claim I know them. So, he gave orders of restrictions without knowing what he
is protecting or that he is also following orders blindly, and Mossad Sheen Bet
using its authority for just punishing me. He testified that it is not a
crime for me to talk with foreigners in general anywhere. He testified that I
can speak freely to any Israeli citizens about anything; it is not his concern
what I am saying to them. These Israelis can give this information to any
foreigners. It was difficult for the Judge to understand why this dichotomy
exits between foreigners and Israelis. It means that it is not about
secrecy but about something else."
The
“Something Else”
In
2004, Yossi Melman wrote for Haaretz:
"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." [1]
Melman described Horev as devoted to duty and bland, petty and
acutely suspiciousness, but also a man of personal integrity with a desire to
expose corruption and failures coupled with a penchant for vengefulness.
"The affairs of the secrets that leaked from the two places considered
Horev's holiest sites - the Biological Institute, which produced a senior spy
in the person of Prof. Marcus Klingberg, and the Dimona nuclear plant, about
which secret information was revealed through Mordechai Vanunu - were formative
events in the development of his world view. 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]
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."
And President Obama persists toTRY to bullshit US as exposed by a real Journalist: Helen
Thomas,whose got thatchers bigger than all the balls in THE PAID MEDIA Corp:
"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."
Vanunu also told me that his brother Meir had the great idea that all The Media who Vanunu had
granted interviews with in 2004 [and thus are culpable in his ongoing misery!] should
help pay his legal expenses.
I had more faith in regular
people to do something, and so I asked Vanunu for a video interview which began 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."
When
I returned to America, I snail-mailed "60 Minutes" and dozens of other U.S.A.
mainstream media outlets as well as walked the halls of Congress to deliver DVD copies
of "30 Minutes with Vanunu."
As of this writing, NOT one Media, Congressional rep or President of the U.S. has ever
responded to what Vanunu said:
"30
Minutes with Vanunu" WAWA's exclusive
uncensored interview from March 24, 2006 that did NOT
go through Israeli Military censors
In Solidarity "we have it in our power to begin the world again."-Tom
Paine
April 14, 2010: Deja Vu: Vanunu, Kamm and Blau and the Fragility of Freedom
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