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As we live Orwell’s nightmare, Peres was the one awarded for playing a part in achieving the Oslo Declaration of Principles.
According to the preamble of the DOP, this peace was supposed to be based on mutual respect and reconciliation.
Ever since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in achieving the Oslo agreement, Peres has been most instrumental in helping to destroy the agreement.
Alfred Nobel’s intention was to reward people with a moral backbone. Nobel had hoped to create icons and examples to humankind.
Annually since 1986, Vanunu has been nominated for The Nobel Peace Prize. When Bishop Tutu nominated him in 2007, Vanunu told me that he didn't want the award if Israel refused him the liberty and freedom to go and accept it.
In April 1999, thirty-six members of the House of Representatives signed a letter calling for Vanunu's release from prison because they believed "we have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who dare to articulate a brighter vision for humanity."
President Clinton responded with a public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the need for Israel and other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to adhere to it and accept IAEA safeguards, and ever since the silence has been deafening; but the times are always a changing.
Vanunu’s inspired refusal of his 23rd nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize scored a direct hit at the hypocrisy of the claim that Israel is a democracy. It also delivered a left to the liver to the Peres.
Niccolo Machiavelli, offered the Renaissance monarchy advice designed to keep power with policies to discourage mass political activism. Machiavelli held that political life cannot be governed by a single set of moral ethics or religious absolutes. Machiavelli offered the monarch excuses and rationales to enable them to sleep at night after ordering calculated acts of deception, lies, cover-ups, and ethically indefensible acts of violence upon innocent lives. To call a politician “Machiavellian” is to say that politician excels in the politics of manipulation and deception and is driven by lust for power.
But Machiavelli was also misunderstood and ignored in other regards, such as his concern with “republics” [states] controlled by a politically active citizenry. In his “Discourses” he emphasized that for a republic to survive, it needed to foster a spirit of patriotism and civic virtue among its citizens. Machiavelli argued that a republic would be strengthened by the conflicts generated through open political participation and debate.
This lesson Peres has yet to learn, but not due to the efforts of Vanunu. When Vanunu acted in 1985, he wanted to open up the dialogue on nuclear weapons as well as opening the Dimona up to international inspections.
Vanunu’s inspired move in 1986, to plaster his printed palm to the van of the window, he provoked Israel to silence him by blacking out the windows of the van and putting a helmet on his head.
Vanunu’s inspired move in 2009, to decline the Nobel was picked up by the The Wall Street Journal : Vanunu Writes to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee: "I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Shimon Peres" [1]
The WSJ is the first major USA corporate controlled media to allow a tear in the iron curtain media shield regarding Vanunu’s freedom of speech trial and conviction.
In the land of the free where freedom of speech is our greatest liberty, the USA corporate media has been missing in action all during a FREEDOM OF SPEECH Trial in the democracy of Israel.
"Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control." [2]
