Among the columnists for the site that published "Why Israel Needs to Get Serious about Treason" are Alan M. Dershowitz and Daniel Pipes.
As I never see 'enemies' but opportunities, I seized this one to converse with the factually-challenged
Why Israel Needs to Get Serious about Treason
Posted by Steven Plaut on Jun 28th, 2011
Israel recently passed a law that would strip Israelis of their citizenship if convicted of espionage or treason. Condemned for this by countries all over the world, almost all of whom have far harsher anti-treason laws than Israel, the Israeli law has yet to be applied to anyone. Sometimes called the "Azmi Bishara Law," it was motivated by an Arab member of the Israeli parliament (or Knesset), Azmi Bishara, from one of the Arab fascist parties, who had openly engaged in espionage and treason, including passing on intelligence to the Hezb'Allah terrorist organization while it was firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Bishara is now in hiding and has yet to be prosecuted. The anti-Israel lobby has denounced this law as "racist," just as it denounces everything Israel does as racist (including rescuing Haitian earthquake victims).
Treason itself is left undefined under this new Israeli law, and in general it has been interpreted by the legal authorities in Israel so loosely that virtually no one has ever been prosecuted for it. Israeli law defines treason as "acts that impair the integrity of Israel" or "impair its sovereignty," and the granting of assistance to the enemy during time of war. Based on British law, Article 99(a) of the Israeli Criminal Code states, "If a person with intent to assist an enemy in war against Israel commits an act calculated to do so, he is liable to the death penalty or to life imprisonment." It goes without saying that no one at all has ever been sentenced to either punishment for treason in Israel. Only a few people engaged in actual espionage, and this includes nuclear spy Mordecai Vanunu and some old-time spies for the Soviet Union, have ever even been so charged with "treason."
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Reply by eileen
fleming
Vanunu is now calling for Israel to honor their new law and strip him of his Israeli citizenship. see it @ Youtube:
Vanunu Mordechai ,Revoking my Citizenship-MAY 5-2011eng'
In 1986, Israel kidnapped Vanunu from Rome 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.
According to 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."
Vanunu gave away his photos to the London Sunday Times because "Israel's
political leaders have consistently lied about Israel's nuclear-weapons
programme and he found this unacceptable in a democracy" and he wanted to
prevent a nuclear holocaust.
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.
Vanunu got 18 years behind bars and was also rendered defenseless when the
court ruled that his motivations were not ideological and they refused to allow
Vanunu's own statements regarding his intentions to be considered in his
defense.
The restrictions that continue to hold Vanunu captive come from the Emergency
Defense Regulations which were implemented by Britain against Palestinians and
Jews after World War II.
After WW II, Attorney Yaccov Shapiro, who later became Israel's Minister Of
Justice, described the Emergency Defense Regulations as "unparalleled in
any civilized country: there were no such laws in Nazi Germany."
During one of my seven trips to Jerusalem since 2005, I asked Vanunu, "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"When I decided to expose Israel's nuclear weapons I acted out of
conscience and to warn the world to prevent a nuclear
holocaust."-excerpted from "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's
FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010" by Eileen
Fleming
Reply by Rami Reed:
This is nonsense. Vanunu asked for and was paid very well by the London Sunday times. 10,000 pounds i believe. Quite a lot of money in those days. Thats real conscience isn't it? Reply by eileen
fleming:
A total
of 1,200 pages of transcript of Vanunu's closed door trial have been released.
Defense witness and the Sunday Times journalist who broke Vanunu's story, Peter
Hounam stated, "We did not pay him money, but only covered his expenses...
Money did not motivate him."
Sunday Times journalist Wendy Robbins wrote, "Mordechai never asked for
nor received a single penny for his information... he blurted out the whole
tale without first setting out any financial preconditions. Mordechai got
nothing out of the whole episode. He never 'sold' Israel's secrets -- he told
them."-excerpted from
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