Fleming quotes
Archbishop Desmond Tutu saying that after a visit to Israel in 2006: "Israel will never get true security
and safety through oppressing another people."
Such wisdom and perceptiveness seems to fall on deaf ears, however - even when it is spoken by respected people like Tutu and it is hard not to escape the conclusion that until people of good will on both sides control the argument, progress will not be made.
Eileen Fleming's book reveals the frustrations of
the truly committed in dealing with the half-committed - and the merely
good-willed.
There is no doubting the strength of her own convictions and sense of mission - she will always, one suspects, have difficulty in finding people who can match her relentless energy and conviction.
In the end, Beyond
Nuclear: Mordechai Vanunu ' s Freedom of
Speech Trial and My Life as a Muckraker is an extraordinary tale of courage and
conviction and the struggle of the individual 's right to tell the truth and the
State' s determination to obscure it or
subvert it for a perceived greater good:
The truth, as Oscar Wilde observed, is rarely simple and never pure.
And by the same token, the lesson Eileen Fleming would have us draw would be that the perceived good is seldom so good as to be worth it.
MJ Maguire
Author of The Night Traveller
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