‘Israel’ is such a democracy it’s about time the whole world gets the opportunity to vote on its name.

Palestine wiped off the map

This never occurred in 1948 – a regrettable oversight that can now be corrected.

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Keep them clean! (I don’t mean ‘ethnically clean‘)

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Last week, Eileen Fleming reported on Mordechai Vanunu’s Ongoing Ordeal in Dissident Voice.The Israeli State still continues to deny this heroic nuclear whitleblower freedom to travel; by now it has tormented him for 23 years, half in solitary confinement.

Shimon Peres" charlatan with a Nobel Peace Prize who hasn't even let an honest peace activist go free, after 23 years

They’re playing a protracted, very cruel game of game of cat and mouse with Vanunu – who has been a prisoner since 1986. The latest twist is trying to extract pledges that he won’t talk to media or foreigners; they still won’t grant Vanunu the most basic freedom; freedom to walk away and spend his life among less hateful people.

Few cases demonstrate so clearly how low the Israeli State has sunk in moral terms. What a shitty state these tribal fanatics have created! They’re so puffed up with selfish self-importance they won’t even let an honest free spirit leave:

Vanunu returned to court on July 6, 2009 and “his attorney Avigdor Feldman…and the state agreed that after six months, pending a review of his conduct, Vanunu will be able to ask for the restrictions to be lifted and be allowed to travel abroad.

Feldman said, “Vanunu is not going to change. He will still be the man who left the reactor and transferred sensitive material over to The Sunday Times. But it is inconceivable that a man be held in Israel for his entire life because of this. The world has anyway lost interest in the subject…You can say a lot of things about Vanunu, but you cannot say he is dishonest. Until now he wouldn’t commit to refrain from speaking of [Israel's nuclear program], but now he is. He wants to live, to raise a home, a family and children.”

However, the “Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish, did not agree with Feldman’s ‘lack of interest’ theory, saying that “the case is still generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media’s attention he gets is proof of that.”

Vanunu told reporters, “All I’m interested in is freedom. Give me a passport and I can tour the world. I want to walk around the streets of New York.”

That evening I phoned Vanunu and as always he said he was, “OK…You have freedom of speech and freedom of movement. Do what you want. But I am not publishing anything…Everything is already on the Internet.”

According to Ms Fleming, who runs the website We are Wide Awake:

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] perpetual nominee Vanunu (he has been nominated annually since 1986) declined the 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.”

Mordechai Vanunu: prefers not to share honours with war criminals

You can send an email to Israeli Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish at Dover@court.gov.il. Here’s Eileen Fleming’s suggested text:

Subject: FREE VANUNU NOW!!!

Dear Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish,

On July 6, 2009, in regards to Mordechai Vanunu, you stated that his “case is still generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media’s attention he gets is proof of that.”

The “great interest” is for Vanunu’s RIGHT to free speech and RIGHT to leave the state.

“Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”-Article 13:2 UN UDHR

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” -Article 19. UN UDHR

FREE VANUNU NOW!

Sincerely,
[Your name and state/country]

Ms Fleming reminds us of the deceptive rhetoric of Israel’s founders, back in 1948:

On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations.”

– May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel

Her article concludes:

On St. Patrick Day 2005, Vanunu spoke to the media immediately after he had been arrested for speaking with the media in 2004.

Vanunu said: “I have no more secrets to tell and have not set foot in Dimona for more than 18 years. I have been out of prison, although not free, for one year now. Despite the illegal restrictions on my speech, I have again and again spoken out against the use of nuclear weapons anywhere and by any nation. I have given away no sensitive secrets because I have none. I have not acted against the interests of Israel nor do I wish to. I have been investigated by the police again and again, and re-arrested. They have found nothing.

I have done nothing but speak for peace and world safety from a nuclear disaster… I  do not want to harm Israel, but rather to warn of an enormous danger. I want to work for world peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. I want the human race to survive.”

Just in case you missed it…

Back in March 2009, four months ago, the United States Director of National Intelligence Admiral Blair was questioned by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Committee chairman Carl Levin asked about the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Here’s his question – and Blair’s reply:

Admiral Dennis Blair: not everyone called 'Blair' is a Zionist stooge

LEVIN: In 2007, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran said that “the intelligence community judges with high confidence that in the fall of 2003 Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.” Is the position of the intelligence community the same as it was back in October of ‘07? Has that changed?

BLAIR: Mr. Chairman, the nuclear weapons program is one of the three components required for deliverable system, including the delivery system and the uranium. But as for the nuclear weapons program, the current position is the same, that Iran has stopped its nuclear weapons design and weaponization activities in 2003 and did not — has not started them again, at least as of mid-2007.

You can read informed commentary about this in a March 10th article by Ali Frick in Think Progress: see Dennis Blair: Iran Has Not Re-Started Its Nuclear Weapons Program. Or just watch the exchange on YouTube.

Admiral Blair’s entire ‘intelligence assessment’, published in mid-February, is declassified: see Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Certainly, this is no radical text. On my reading, it’s loaded with arrogant imperial assumptions and a prevailing Israeli bias – reflecting the general ethos of militarized, domineering, pro-Zionist modern America. But it does retain a modest connection with reality. The mind-bending pro-Israeli extremism of Bush era ‘intelligence’ is missing.

Pages 18-21 discuss WMDs in the middle east in some detail. There’s no mention of Israeli nuclear weapons (which actually exist in copious quantities, as anyone with a modicum of genuine ‘intelligence’ knows). The section is almost entirely about Iran  (which doesn’t have any).

Notwithstanding this bias, the underlying reality comes through: despite a vast program of US surveillance set up to ‘expose’ an Iranian nuclear weapons program, no such evidence has been found. The report notes the decision by Iran not to build nuclear bombs is ‘reversible’. For sure it is. Most decisions in life are reversible.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: his honesty is an irritant to Zionist control-freaks

It seems the current Iranian President is telling the plain truth when says his country is not developing nuclear weapons – even though Iran is incessantly hassled, embargoed, bullied and threatened by countries that do have nuclear weapons!

None of this is apparent to casual consumers of the mainstream western mass media, which continues to hype Ziocentric paranoia about Iran and vilify its current President on almost a daily basis.

Prior to his election in late 2007, Australian Prime Minister Rudd even demanded Ahmadinejad be put on trial by an international court. Why? Because of the Iranian President’s views about World War Two! (Talk about religious extremism!) Happily, after Rudd won Government, wiser council must have prevailed in Canberra and Rudd quietly dropped this extreme silliness. Putting on a show must have been sufficient to placate the Zionist Lobby in that case.

A fool and two paranoiacs: yet in fairness, even Bush didn't buy the 'attack Iran' nonsense

The Israeli State amassed its own huge stash of nuclear weapons by lying, cheating, stealing, assassinating, intimidating others into silent acquiescence – and generally displaying the ugliest traits of human behaviour over six decades since 1948 – including active collaboration with the South African Apartheid regime when it developed nuclear weapons in the 1970s and 80s.

Not surprisingly, Israelis find it hard to believe that others don’t have equally malevolent intent.

Like classical paranoiacs, they imagine they see a fearsome array of ‘existential threats’ when they glance out of the window.

In reality, they’re just looking in the mirror.