I read blogs on your web site 'we are wide awake'...I am a 24 year old engineer from Bangalore I am really impressed with your website...why does the media houses like CNN, BBC and even here in India ignore important news such as Mordechai Vannunu? Such a brave man, he did what was correct and he had to pay such a big price for telling the truth, when will this oppression end?
I responded and introduced more via Youtube :
Vanunu replied on Aug 31, 2010: "DON'T WAIT FOR MY READING.PUBLISH IT AND MOVE TO THE NEXT PROJECT. VMJC"
If all goes as planned the first press editions of BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker 2005-2010, will be available this October.
My next project begins September 20th when I join a few of the muckrakers from Salem-News.com who are filming a response to BBC's Panorama, which did not inform the audience regarding many things including "who is really to blame for the embargo?"
My plan and project for November 2010, is to go to Iran as a delegate with FOR: Fellowship of Reconciliation. I go because my government tells me that Iran is my 'enemy' but my faith informs me that I must love my enemies; not bomb, torture or occupy any.
I go because I also believe that in solidarity "we have it in our power to begin the world again" as Tom Paine said.
Paine also wrote: "Soon after I had published the pamphlet "Common Sense" [on Feb. 14, 1776] in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion... The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Mine too!
And what follows is an excerpt from my third book, BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker
Chapter 1: And so it began"
"If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."- Emile Zola
A few days before my first of seven journeys to Israel Palestine, a Palestinian American friend warned me, "Don't visit Vanunu, if you see him; don't speak to him. He's not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble."
I responded, "OK, I won't track him down, but Jerusalem is a small town and if
our paths cross, I will speak to him. What kind of government is that, that
will tell a human being who they can and cannot talk with?"
It was while researching for my first book-KEEP HOPE ALIVE- in 2004, that I stumbled upon Mordechai Vanunu's incredible story and wrote him into a chapter; and met him a few months after.
In the Chapter: "Thanksgiving Eve, 1987" Dr. Jake Hunter, a fictional character says:
"I have yet to read or heard a word from the American press about Vanunu who
had worked in a very compartmentalized position in the secret underground
Dimona nuclear research center in the Negev. The nuclear plant had a sign
outside claiming it was a Textile factory and it seems that when Vanunu finally
realized he was involved in the horrific work of manufacturing weapons of mass
destruction, he shot two rolls of film inside of the restricted areas. Seems
security was very lax and this low level tech was able to obtain the keys in
the shower room that opened the doors to what Israel has not admitted to.
"Vanunu quit the
job and leaves Israel and carried around the undeveloped film for nearly a year
as he traveled throughout Europe. He ended up in Sydney, Australia and
converted to Christianity. A few weeks after he shared his story with a British
reporter and Vanunu and the reporter returned to London. While the London
Sunday Times was verifying his story, Vanunu mysteriously disappeared. The
photos proved the fact that Israel had become a major nuclear power, but not a
word has been heard from my government or press!
"The Sunday Times reports this incredible news that Israel's underground
plutonium plant has material for two hundred nuclear warheads of advanced
design, but not a word have I read about it or heard from the US media! It
makes me wonder about all the iron curtains the media and government have
raised as a shield from the truth."
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