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The Norwegians are way ahead of US in regards to people power and human rights activism for justice in Israel Palestine.
The Norwegian government dropped the Israeli firm Elbit Systems Ltd. from the government pension fund, because regular people brought to the attention of their government Elbit's involvement in building the Apartheid Wall in the Occupied West Bank.
"Norway's Council of Ethics cited the 2004 International Court of Justice ruling that declared the Separation Wall to be illegal. Elbit Systems supplies essential components for the building of the Wall, including surveillance technology, and is also a manufacturer of weapons used to sustain Israel's Occupation of Palestine [and] because of the firm's material support for the illegal Occupation and crimes against the Palestinian people [and because they] supplied arms to Israel in the full knowledge that these weapons would be used against civilians in Palestine and Lebanon." [5]
Knowledge always brings responsibility and there are no secrets on the World Wide Web!
On October 2, 2009, The Washington Times reported that "Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes secret [and] reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections."
In 2005, Vanunu, told me:
"President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. Prime Minister Ben Guirion 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.
"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."
On April 5, 2009, President Obama stood on the world stage in Prague and admitted, "As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
"When we fail to pursue peace, then it stays forever beyond our
grasp. We know the path when we choose fear over hope. To denounce or
shrug off a call for cooperation is an easy but also cowardly thing to
do. That's how wars begin. That's where human progress ends.
"The voices
of peace and progress must be raised together.
"Human destiny will be
what we make of it.
"Words must mean something."
Here's hoping
President Obama will courageously pursue the mandate issued from Oslo
with an unrestrained audacious daring and that President Peres is ready
to ease his conscience and allow Vanunu the right to leave occupied
east Jerusalem.
