I want you to know that Vanunu "fired" me as a friend and supporter on Face Book as well as in real life within three days of its publication but as an act of conscience I have --and will-continue to report on the ongoing saga of Vanunu until he is free to leave Israel.
I want you to know that ever since Vanunu quit talking to me, I have garnered all my information about him from his You Tube Channel vanunuvmjc for Vanunu has become his own Media:
Vanunu Mordechai Freedom of Speech,about all world Media, May 23-2010.
Israel's State
Prosecutor continues to claim concern that Israel's state security would be
undermined if the draconian restrictions imposed upon Vanunu were lifted, but
in 2004 it was already reported:
"At the time of his release Vanunu was banned from talking to the media, mixing
with foreigners and leaving the country for at least one year. Later the
government relented and allowed him to speak to foreigners and the media, but
not about his work at the Dimona nuclear plant. Israel claims he still holds
some of its nuclear secrets. Vanunu, however, said that he had "no more
secrets' to reveal." [2]
Also in 2004,
Yossi Melman wrote for Haaretz:
"This is the secret that hasn't yet been told in the affair: the story of
the security fiasco that made it possible for Vanunu to do what he did, and the
story of the subsequent attempts at cover-up, whitewashing and protection of
senior figures in the defense establishment, who were bent on divesting
themselves of responsibility for the failure. The 18-year prison term to which
Vanunu was sentenced is almost exactly the same period as that in which Yehiel
Horev has served as chief of internal security in the defense establishment
[who has been] involved in the affair as deputy chief of security at the
Defense Ministry, and also after Vanunu's abduction and arrest, as a member of
an investigative commission.
"Shortly after taking office as chief of security at the Defense Ministry,
Horev began to take punitive measures to hobble Vanunu. He is responsible for
the harsh conditions in which Vanunu was held, which included years in solitary
confinement, and the sharp limitations on the number of visitors he could
have"[and has fought] a rearguard battle to prevent Vanunu from leaving Israel
and to place him under supervision and restrictions that will be tantamount to
house arrest. Horev has always been considered the strictest of all the
security chiefs in Israel, especially in regard to the protection of
institutions such as the Dimona facility and the Biological Institute. He is
apprehensive that if Vanunu goes abroad, he will continue to be a nuisance by
stimulating the public debate over Israel's nuclear policy and the nuclear
weapons he says Israel possesses"all the hyperactivity being displayed by Horev
and those who support his approach is intended only to divert attention from
what has not yet been revealed: the security blunders and their
cover-ups."
Vanunu told me, "All the secrets I had were published in 1989 in an important book, by [Nuclear Physicist] Frank Barnaby, "The Invisible Bomb: Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East."
Barnaby testified, "I found Vanunu very straightforward about his motives for violating Israel's secrecy laws he explained to me that he believed that both the Israeli and the world public had the right to know about the information he passed on. He seemed to me to be acting ideologically.
"Israel's political leaders have, he said, consistently lied about Israel's nuclear-weapons programme and he found this unacceptable in a democracy. The knowledge that Vanunu had about Israel's nuclear weapons, about the operations at Dimona, and about security at Dimona could not be of any use to anyone today. He left Dimona in October 1985." [3 ]
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