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Home Blog August / September 2012 September 3, 2012: Here’s about Israel’s nuclear weapons
September 3, 2012: Here’s about Israel’s nuclear weapons |
September 3, 2012: Here's About Israel's Nuclear Weapons
Last Friday, Patrick B. Pexton,
journalist and Ombudsman for The Washington Post asked What about Israel's nuclear weapons?
Paxton mentioned the “Israeli military
censors that can and do prevent publication of material on Israel’s nuclear
forces. Censorship applies to foreign correspondents working there, too [and]
relatively few people have overall knowledge of the Israeli program and no one
leaks. Those in the program certainly do not leak; it is a crime to do so. The
last time an Israeli insider leaked, in 1986, nuclear technician Mordechai
Vanunu was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Italy, taken home to trial,
convicted and served 18 years in jail, much of it in solitary confinement.
“And perhaps most important, Americans don’t
leak about the Israeli nuclear program either… information about Israeli
nuclear capabilities is some of the most compartmentalized and secret
information the U.S. government holds…
“It’s like all things having to do with Israel and the United
States. If you want to get ahead, you don’t talk about it; you don’t criticize
Israel, you protect Israel. You don’t talk about illegal settlements on the
West Bank even though everyone knows they are there.”
A Few Omissions of The Media’s Commission to search
and report accurately by this candidate for US HOUSE of Representatives:
On 24 April 2004, which was three days after
Mordechai Vanunu was released from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell
jail for providing the photographic proof and telling the truth about Israel's
clandestine seven story underground WMD Program in the Negev, Uri Avnery wrote:
"Everybody understands that he 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."
On 9/1/2012 8:24 AM EDT I commented
as eileenfleming4HOUSE at What about Israel's nuclear weapons? The
photo is me with Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu who is still
waiting in east Jerusalem for his right to leave Israel.

In 2005, I began a series of interviews with Vanunu and he told me what every
one in the world needs to know about Israel's WMD:
“Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic
weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was
not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The
Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’
“Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding
that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
“The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans
gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay
their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there,
almost twenty years ago. Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors
underground.
“In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a
nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez
Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the
Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.
“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.” -excerpted from BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010 by Eileen Fleming.
I am Eileen Fleming for US HOUSE, D. 5, Fl. and I approve of all of my
messages.###
Vanunu also 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."
However, 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 March 26, 2006, Vanunu told me:
"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."
I began the taping of "30 Minutes with Vanunu" which did NOT go through Israeli Military censors with this question to Vanunu, "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."
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."
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."
In 2003, Peter Hounam, the investigative reporter who broke the Vanunu story in 1986 told the BBC, "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."
On
December 22, 2011, Vanunu wrote: "2012 IS HERE. Vanunu still not FREE from 1986-2012,without freedom of
speech and freedom to leave Israel. All the world watching but no one dare to
act for my release, for the end of my suffering in Israel prison."
My conscience is clear that I have done what I
could -but I am not done yet and this story will be continued.
I am Eileen Fleming for US HOUSE and I approve of
all of my messages.

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