I read up on this guy this week.. and found this article. Here are some excerpts. We need more Israeli's like this. A truly brave and moral person.... SHAME ON ISRAEL!!!!!!!!

http://www.counterpunch.org/gaffney01312003.html

his name is Mordechai Vannunu

excerpts from the article:

In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu was illegally abducted by agents of the Mossad for revealing to the world press information that confirmed the existence of Israel's often-denied plutonium separation plant. The plant is buried eighty feet below ground in the Negev desert, and had long escaped detection. Since the 1960s it has been used to recover plutonium from spent fuel rods from the Dimona nuclear reactor, located nearby. The plant continues to be an integral part of Israel's ongoing nuclear weapons program. Israel is believed to possess at least 200 nukes.

Then Prime Minister Shimon Peres ordered Vanunu' s abduction to silence the whistleblower, and to bring him to trial for allegedly jeopardizing the securi ty of the state of Israel. But Vanunu's real "crime" was speaking the truth. And for that he was made to suffer a fate worse than death: eleven years and five months in solitary confinement. Isolation in a tiny cell is a well known form of torture, and one that can cause deep emotional scars and mental impairment. During this period Vanunu was subjected to constant harassments and humiliations: an obvious attempt by the Mossad to "break" his will, or drive him over the edge. Amnesty International described the conditions of his ordeal as "cruel, inhuman, and degrading."

Yet, the prisoner held firm as a rock. Nor has Vanunu since wavered from the position of principle he articulated in the very beginning: that the only sane path is full disclosure and abolition of nuclear weapons. From his prison cell Mordechai wrote: "It is a dangerous illusion to believe they [nuclear weapons] can be defensive....Only peace between states can promise security."

The world gained another glimpse of Vanunu's character in 1998, shortly after his removal from solitary and his placement in the general prison population. At that time he was queried by Israeli officials about whether he would agree to remain silent on the nuclear issue, implying an offer of conditional release. But Vanunu refused. He insisted on his right to speak freely. And he made it plain that being muzzled on the nuclear issue was non-negotiable: not an option for his release. Vanunu is currently starting the seventeenth year of his eighteen year sentence.

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Over the years the case of Mordechai Vanunu has come to symbolize the intractable problem of state secrecy that continues to stymie all efforts toward world nuclear disarmament. This is why Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since1987. Though his name is a household word in Europe, Australia, and throughout much of the rest of the world, here in America Vanunu remains almost unknown. The US press ignores his case because it is an embarrassment to Israel and to the US government.

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israel is not signator to the non proliferation act.
shame on israel for putting in jail a traitor

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Amazing how foreign observers always tend to take political "Outcasts" such as Uri Avneri, Amira Hass, Beilin and Vanunu and make them heroes by (subcosciously?) converting the notion of "the majority isn't always right" into "the minority is always right".
Which is also a lie.
Vanunu is a typical case of a "traitor", yup. He's happy to have traited Israel and not some Arab country. Had he done the same to say, the Iraqui regime, he'd have found himself lynched and hanged up in some market place or soccer stadium, in order to frighten more potential traitors.
Israeli Heros are Menachem Begin, David Ben Gurion, Eli Cohen, Ron Arad, Ilan Ramon, Yoni Netanyahu, Moshe Dayan.. R..a.. I ehm..donno bout the last one.

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In my opinion.. he did the RIGHT thing and exposed to the world how deceiving the Isearli army is. Im sure you would want to know where each and every nuclear weapon is made seeing that Izzy and other Americans are meticulously scrutinizing the UN while they search for them at this moment in Iraq. Just cause one's a traitor to a nation doesnt makes him a bad person! Im sure if someone in Iraq sold out and revealed the supposed WMD in Iraq.... you would all find him a hero... or is he a bad person or "traitor" as you call him....

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Well if Israel has right to imprison the guy for revealing it's secret weapons program, in that case Saddam has every right to threaten potentially traitorous scientists to kill them if they cooperate with the UN inspectors.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Well if Israel has right to imprison the guy for revealing it's secret weapons program, in that case Saddam has every right to threaten potentially traitorous scientists to kill them if they cooperate with the UN inspectors.

my exact thought , i don't like how the us/israel have the rights to do things but in the other hand they will stop anyone else who tries to do the same

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Originally posted by Cyrus King Im sure you would want to know where each and every nuclear weapon is made seeing that Izzy and other Americans are meticulously scrutinizing the UN while they search for them at this moment in Iraq.

dont play dumb, there is a reason why we are specifically going after saddam's weapons and not israel's, we've gone over this before.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Well if Israel has right to imprison the guy for revealing it's secret weapons program, in that case Saddam has every right to threaten potentially traitorous scientists to kill them if they cooperate with the UN inspectors.

you're right. saddam has as much right to punish traitors as israel does, there is nothing wrong with that and it matters little to me.

saying that doesnt do anything about the fact that one nation is hiding something that its not supposed to have and the other nation is hiding something it doesnt want anyone else to know about (and in no place does it say it cant have them).

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Moshe Dayan was a great Hero of ours!
if he did for any nation what he did for israel, they would all be proud to have him as one of their own!

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Originally posted by Izzy dont play dumb, there is a reason why we are specifically going after saddam's weapons and not israel's, we've gone over this before.

Then why did they keep it a secret???? They were hiding something...and i dont care which nation it is... hiding something like that is very wrong. You can say Saddam has weapons or not..but actually finding them... thats something.

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Originally posted by Cyrus King Then why did they keep it a secret???? They were hiding something...and i dont care which nation it is... hiding something like that is very wrong. You can say Saddam has weapons or not..but actually finding them... thats something.

they are keepign it secret and out of focus because they don't want people like you bitching and moaning about it. There is nothing wrong with Israel's nuclear program - inversly had it not had this nuclear program it might already have been destroyed, or more people on both sides, and arabs in particular would have died in failed attempts to re-invade Israel. So it saves lives, ya

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oh and you should obviously consider renaming the thread, perhaps something like "An Israeli I consider a Hero", as it is without doubt that Israelis do not consider him a hero, and therefore he is not an Israeli Hero in such context, after all you do want the appearance of correctness.

Last edited by Yoepus on Feb-09-2003 at 02:05

OUCH!!
You got burned!

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