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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (5398)	7/6/2004 1:44:17 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

Why Israel is still afraid of Mordechai Vanunu electronicintifada.net "But the severest restriction has been the confiscation of his passport to prevent him from leaving the country — an infringement of his civil liberties he is currently challenging in the courts. Vanunu says that since his release he has been receiving a flood of death threats from Israelis, most of whom revile him as a traitor, and that he wants to leave for the safety of Europe or the United States. Israel, however, claims that the gamut of restrictions is needed because, even after 18 years, Vanunu still has many secrets to tell that could jeopardise the country's security. Officials argue that it was for this reason he had to endure 12 years of absolute solitary confinement, a further six years of segregation from other prisoners and now these latest restraints. Critics, including his family, friends and supporters, on the other hand, claim Vanunu revealed to the world all the secrets he knew in 1986. In any case, they add, it is inconceivable that Israel has not overhauled the security arrangements at its nuclear weapons plant in the Negev desert in the intervening 18 years. Vanunu's treatment, says his brother Meir, who is living with him at St George's, is a continuation of the psychological torture he endured in prison, a form of abuse designed to break his spirit. It has nothing to do with Israel's security." The Vanunu brothers MUST BE anti-semites [sic]! len