In 1963, when Vanunu was nine years old, the Zionists came to his home town of Marrakesh and convinced his Orthodox father to abandon his general store and pack up the first seven of his eleven children for the land of milk and honey. Instead, the Vanunu's were banished to the desert of Beesheva, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village.
A few months later, Shimon Peres, then Israel's Deputy Minister of Defense, met with President John Kennedy inside the White House.
Kennedy told Peres, "You know that we follow very closely the discovery of any nuclear development in the region. This could create a very dangerous situation. For this reason we monitor your nuclear effort. What could you tell me about this?"
Peres replied, "I can tell you most clearly that we will not introduce nuclear weapons to the region and certainly we will not be the first."
Peres ordered the Mossad, to "Bring the son of a b*tch back here."
Peres ordered Vanunu's kidnapping that included a clubbing, drugging and being flung upon an Israeli cargo boat back to Israel for a closed-door trial, 18 years in jail, six years under 24/7 surveillance and another 78 days in solitary confinement that began 23 May 2010.
On 11 October 2010, Israel denied Vanunu's appeal to leave the state.
Also in October, it was announced that Vanunu was awarded the 2010 Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal which he is to be awarded in Berlin on 12 December 2010.
Within days of the announcement of a record 205 nominations for 2009's Nobel Peace Prize, [one of several prizes endowed by Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel], Vanunu declined that honor in a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo:
"I am asking the committee to remove my name from the nominations...I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres. Peres established and developed the atomic weapon program in Dimona in Israel. Peres was the man who ordered [my] kidnapping, he continues to oppose my freedom and release. WHAT I WANT IS FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM. FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW."
On 22 November 2010, I mailed the following letters and enclosed a copy of BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010
BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu 's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker
The LETTER to Netanyahu, Barak, Yishai from the International League for Human Rights on the official letterhead: Read more...
Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton,
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