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From: freethemedia2002@yahoo.com (Arther Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.cia,alt.politics.org.fbi,alt.politics.media,alt.politics.usa
Subject: FlashBack: ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
Date: 29 Jun 2003 20:41:44 -0700
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www.MiddleEast.Org ISRAEL'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
AND THE NUCLEAR PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
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MORDECHAI VANUNU -
ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
MER - Washington - 20 March 1998:
While the Americans force disarmament on Iraq --
with sponsored client-regimes controlling the region
while boycotts and embargoes are used to constrain
all who refuse to submit -- Israel remains the regional
Goliath. Indeed, Israeli military power is said to be
more than 7 times greater than all of the Arab armies
combined; and that's before the ever-present backup of
the American superpower!
Of course it is precisely Israel's super weapons of
mass destruction that are at issue. No country has
violated more U.N. resolutions, defied the international
community, and refused to sign international treaties
and allow international inspection than Israel. American
hypocrisy and duplicity are overwhelmingly obvious
After 12 years Mordechai Vanunu remains imprisoned in
Israel after being internationally seduced and kidnapped
by the Mossad. The fact that he is no longer held totally
in solitary confinement is positive, but only a very small
victory in the struggle to free Vanunu.
It was back in 1986 that Vanunu first told the world
about Israel's then secret arsenal of nuclear weapons.
In the article below, Peter Hounam of THE SUNDAY TIMES in
London, recalls what happened.
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Last year, MER-TV made a series of programs specifically
about Mordechai Vanunu. These programs show the yearly
Vanunu demonstration at the Israeli Embassy for Vanunu,
scenes from a BBC documentary about Vanunu, and exclusive
interviews with the leaders of the free Vanunu movement
in the U.S., Europe and Israel.
For information how to obtain these videos:
http://www.MiddleEast.org/vanunu.htm
or
Email to INFOCURRENT@MiddleEast.org
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London Sunday Times - March 15, 1998
Peter Hounam recalls how and why
Vanunu broke the story to him
WHISTLEBLOWER WITH A CONSCIENCE
THE tragedy of Mordechai Vanunu began on the other side of the world,
when he made the fateful decision to disclose details of his
country's clandestine nuclear program.
Shaking with trepidation, he recounted to me how he had worked in
Israel's most secret military establishment, making nuclear warheads
in an underground factory. The account suggested that Israel had
become the world's sixth biggest nuclear power. But was it true?
Exhaustive checks confirmed that Mordechai was a classic dissident -
motivated partly by dissatisfaction with the way he had been
dismissed from his job, but mostly by a conviction that his country
had taken an insane course.
He eventually paid a terrible penalty for warning the world but, even
today, his correspondence shows he is unrepentant. He firmly denies
that he was a spy or a traitor.
"The truth is important," he told me in a recent letter. "I will not
let them change my mind."
As the facts unfolded in our initial conversations, it grew easier to
comprehend Mordechai's decision to become a whistleblower. He said he
would have understood if, back in the 1960s, his country had decided
it needed a small number of atomic bombs - perhaps half a dozen to
deter the hostile Arab states on its borders.
Instead, it established a nuclear plant near Dimona in the Negev
desert including a state-of-the-art, French-supplied plutonium
separation plant in a building that extended six floors underground.
Here the weapons-grade material for making bombs was chemically
separated from the fuel rods of a nearby reactor. As he was often in
charge of supervising this immense and complex process, it was
evident to him that its purpose was to build several hundred
warheads.
Over and over again, he said to me: "Why do they want all these
bombs. Are they planning to fight with them and destroy the Middle
East?"
During his shifts, Mordechai pondered these issues, pacing the floor
of a control room with instrument panels stretching 30 yards. He was
often alone. During quiet periods in the dead of night he explored
other floors and found rooms in which the plutonium was machined into
bomb parts. He knew this meant Israel had taken the ultimate step. It
was making thermonuclear weapons capable of destroying a city.
On October 5, 1986, Mordechai's testimony was published in The Sunday
Times across pages one, two and three, with the headline "Revealed:
the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
Israel immediately adopted a posture of no comment, as did France.
The United States, Israel's ally, came under hard questioning from a
number of Arab states, but Mordechai's reaction was impossible to
gauge. He saw The Sunday Times article while manacled in an Israeli
cell, following a calamitous error of judgment on his part.
One day, while walking in London, he had met an American tourist
called "Cindy". Five days before the story was published, she
persuaded him to fly to Italy. He realised she was a Mossad agent
only when he entered a flat in Rome and was thrown to the floor by
two men. They chained him up and he was injected with a sedative.
Several days later he was "home" in Israel. Within weeks, he had been
charged with "helping the enemy" and espionage, and branded his
country's worst-ever traitor.
It was this cataclysmic development that put him on the front pages
of newspapers around the world and prompted a campaign by a small but
dogged group of supporters to secure his release. The news that the
nightmare of his solitary confinement had ended brought the first
glimmer of hope that he may soon be a free man.
Israel, however, must be concerned about how he will react on his
release, and what further light this might shed on the nuclear issue.
The Dimona plant is still functioning, with the capacity to produce
scores of nuclear weapons every year. Unlike Iraq, Israel seems
immune from any sanctions or even pressure. Mordechai's letters make
it clear he will not be silenced until this issue is resolved.
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