Israel also kidnapped Vanunu in 1986, but Article 9 of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights states: "No one shall he subjected to
arbitrary arrest or detention", including abduction of a person by agents
of one state to another state.
Vanunu was charged with and convicted of treason and espionage.
Section 99 of the Israeli Penal Code, treason is defined as "an act
calculated to assist (an enemy) in time of war...delivering information with
the intention that it fall into the hands of the enemy."
Section 113 defines aggravated espionage as "deliver(ing) any secret
information without being authorized to do so and with intent to impair the
security of the state" and a sub-clause provides for a penalty of seven
years for the unauthorized collection, preparation, recording or holding of
secret information; if this is done with intent to impair the security of the
state and then, the penalty is increased to 15 years.
During my interviews with Vanunu, he informed me that, "All the secrets I
had were published in 1989 in an important book, by Frank Barnaby, The Invisible
Bomb: Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East."
Frank Barnaby, the Nuclear Physicist, who was hired by the London Sunday Times
to interrogate Vanunu, testified at his closed door trial, "I very
vigorously cross-examined Vanunu, relentlessly asking the same questions in a
number of different ways and at different times...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."
But, Vanunu was rendered defenseless during that closed door trial when the
court ruled that his motivations were not ideological and they refused to allow
Vanunu's own statements regarding his intentions to even be considered in his
defense.
On November 24th, 2006 Vanunu wrote:
"My lawyer succeeded to reveal a few very important facts: This General of
the Army also was not allowed to see all the secrets that he is required to
protect by these restrictions that they claim I know them. So, he gave orders
of restrictions without knowing what he is protecting or that he is also
following orders blindly, and Mossad Sheen Bet using its authority for just
punishing me. He testified that it is not a crime for me to talk with
foreigners in general anywhere. He testified that I can speak freely to any
Israeli citizens about anything; it is not his concern what I am saying to
them. These Israelis can give this information to any foreigners. It was
difficult for the Judge to understand why this dichotomy exits between
foreigners and Israelis. It means that it is not about secrecy but about
something else."
The "Something Else"
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."
Melman described Horev as devoted to duty and bland, petty and acutely
suspiciousness, but also a man of personal integrity with a desire to expose
corruption and failures coupled with a penchant for vengefulness.
"The affairs of the secrets that leaked from the two places considered
Horev's holiest sites - the Biological Institute, which produced a senior spy
in the person of Prof. Marcus Klingberg, and the Dimona nuclear plant, about
which secret information was revealed through Mordechai Vanunu - were formative
events in the development of his world view. 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 the world that Israel had developed between one hundred and
two hundred atomic bombs [in 1986!] and had gone on to develop neutron bombs
and thermonuclear weapons. Enough to destroy the entire Middle East and nobody
has done anything about it since." -Peter Hounam, 2003 for the BBC.
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
"President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons.
Kennedy insisted on an open internal 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 March 26, 2006, Vanunu told me:
"Many journalists come here to the American Colony, from CNN and NY Times.
They all want to cover my story, but their EDITORS say no...CNN wants to
interview me; but they say they can't do it because they don't want problems
with the Israeli censor. BBC is doing the same thing.
"Sixty Minutes from the United States from the beginning they wanted to do
a program, but because of the censor situation they decide not to do it. Also
big media from Germany, France, Italy, Japan. None of them wants problems with
the Israelis."
I began the taping of "30 Minutes with Vanunu" with this question:
"If the British Mandate has expired why not the British Mandate's Emergency
Defense Regulations?"
Vaunu replied, "The reason given is security but it is because Israel is
not a democracy unless you are a Jew. This administration tells me I am not
allowed to speak to foreigners, the Media, and the world. But I do because that
is how I prove my true humanity to the world. My freedom of speech trial began
January 25, 2006 for speaking to the media, the same day as the Palestinian
elections."
The day before Vanunu returned to jail for 78 days in solitary to punish him
for speaking to foreign media in 2004, he emailed me:
From: Vanunu Mordechai J C.
To: [me]
Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM
Subject: SHAME ON YOU
SHAME ON YOU.
ISRAEL VERY STUPID SPIES.
MOSSAD SHABACK FOR PUTTING ME BACK IN PRISON AFTER 24 YEARS FOR SPEAKING THE
TRUTH.
SHAME ON YOU. ISRAEL MEDIA STUPID SPIES, HAAREZ EDIOT AHARONOT MAARIVE FOR SELF
DECEPTION.
SHAME ON YOU. ISRAEL DEMOCRACY, KNESET=BET KNESET=SINAGOUGS DEMOCRACY FOR NOT
LEARNING IN 2000 YEARS THAT THE BASIC RIGHT IN DEMOCRACY IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
SHAME ON YOU. ALL WORLD MEDIA BBC PPC CNN ABC CBS NBC FOX SKY HERALD TRIBUNE
NEW YORK TIMES AND ALL THE WORLD MEDIA NRK NHK STA WD ZDF 24 FRANCE ALZAJJIRA
SUNDAY TIMES FOR LET SUCH CASE HAPPENING AND NOT PROTECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
SHAME ON YOU ALL THE ARABS STUPID SPIES FROM EGYPT TO DUBAI
SAUDI,LEBANON.JORDAN FOR LET ME GO BACK TO PRISON.
SHAME ON YOU. US SENATE CONGRESS WHITE HOUSE. UN IAEA MOHAMED ELBARADY FOR NOT
PROTECTING MY FREEDOM.
SHAME ON YOU ALL THE RELIGIOUS STUPID SPIES JEWS, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIMS, BIG SHAME
ON YOU FOR NOT BRINGING MY RELEASE IN 24 YEARS, RELIGION IS BIG BULLSHIT SHOW,
SHAME ON YOU.ALL THE WORLD STUPID SPIES CIA FBI MI5 MI6 AND ALL THE STUPID
SPIES OF EVERY STATE WHO WANT ME BACK IN PRISON YOU WILL NOT GET ANY THING FROM
ME.
FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM WILL SURVIVE AND CONTINUE FOR EVER,
VMJC FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW.
VANUNU MORDECHAI John Crossman.
KIDNAPPED IN ROME SEP' 30 TH'-1986.
18 YEARS IN ISRAEL PRISON.OUT IN APR'-21-2004.
Waiting In East Jerusalem. To Be Free,To Leave .
My question to PM Netanyahu is PLEASE view this video by Vanunu and tell me how much longer will Israel make Vanunu
wait?
VANUN FREEDOM OF SPEECH MAY 23-2010.m4v
My next question regarding this nuclear fallout published in Haaretz:
"50 Japanese workers who have remained at Fukushima amid the unfolding
crisis, in an effort to bring the facility under control, are two individuals
who were in Israel about three weeks ago, where they underwent training to
transfer the operation of the security system to the Japanese themselves. The
system includes cameras and a warning system, enabling the facility's security
staff to monitor anyone attempting to trespass onto the site or damage the
perimeter fence. The security system was designed to guard the plant against
any hostile elements seeking to seize radioactive material to use in a terrorist
attack." [3]
My question is: Was any thought ever given to SECURE the SAFETY of the public before a Natural Disaster has also now wrecked havoc on the 10 year partnership between the Dimona and Japan?
And I add the Dimona has never been INSPECTED by the IAEA!
2. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000631094&fid=1725
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons
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