Israeli Nuclear Scientist Sent Back to Jail
source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/2010523153326127852.html
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An Israeli court had in December sentenced Vanunu to serve three months community service or three months in prison, for violating the terms of his release from prison in 2004.
Vanunu was jailed in 1986 for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper. Since his release in 2004, he has been detained several times for violating the terms of his release that ban him from travel or contact with foreigners.
Israel has restricted his movements and personal contacts since he finished his first jail term. Israeli authorities argue that Vanunu could leak new details on his past work at the Dimona nuclear reactor.
But Vanunu, a convert from Judaism to Christianity, denies charges that he has more classified information that he can leak if he is allowed to emigrate.
Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, with around 200 warheads, but it has a policy of neither confirming nor denying that. It has refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or to allow international surveillance of Dimona in the southern Negev desert.
"Shame on you, Israel, and the stupid Shin Bet and Mossad spies who are returning me to jail after 24 years in which I have spoken only the truth," Vanunu shouted in court before being led away, referring to Israel's internal security arm and its international spy service."
"Freedom is a basic part of human rights. I am not an animal. You punished me in the past, but I cannot accept a violation of my freedom of expression."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/2010523153326127852.html
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actualy they can and will violate your freedom of expression when it takes the form of comprimising national security.
just like we would
or the soviets
or any nation really.
israel isnt the only middle east nuclear power as india and pakistan have a shitload of nukes.
and god forbid push every comes to shove we will see other arab nations have them too, but use pakistan as thier storage shed for them.what is iran's major project at the moment?cancer research no that wasnt it, its impoverished? no, was it dealing with the green revolution, no a smattering of bullets is all that requires, oh yeah nukes.
is iran no longer in the mid east? did i miss that episode of mega movers?
or did israel oppress them out? - 2 years ago
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freecrack:
i got this one freecrack...
When Israel recieved their nuclear deterrent it was in the context of the Cold War and the threats at the time. Had the Soviets chosen to back the Arab states more vigorously(instead of planes and tanks from WW2) during 67' and 73' wars we may have seen the second nuclear catasrophe of the era.
However, in the modern context the Israeli nuclear deterrent is a part of the "Matrix of Control" that both the US and Israel maintain domestically and throughout the region. The two nations are so preoccupied with their notion of "defense" that we actually create threats and the opportunity to have them carried out.
You often state that Israel is the only nuclear weapons carrier in the middle east. well, what does that mean? For the region, which has seen merciless Israeli retaliation for reasons ranging from questionably justified (67') to outright opression and colonialism (Lebanon 80',06'), a nuclear Israel means that an already agressive state has the capacity to destroy an entire country unilaterally and without penalty while still backed by the United States.
The motivation for Iran to attain a "nuclear threshold" (a capacity to go from 20% enriched uranium aka. civilian grade to weapons grade around 80% enriched) is to balance the nuclear equation in the middle east. Its unreasonable to think that any state in the region would put up with a nuclear monopoly and Iran is in the position to upset that equation.
This scientist was merely bringing the truth to light back then and now. Israel has none of its weapons documented by the UN, is not a signatory of the NPT, and uses its influence in the UN to get US veto's for choice legislation. Iran would never comply with such double standards hence our current state of affairs."The United States is committed to defend Israel's existance, but not Israel's conquests"
- Henry Kissinger 1970 - 2 years ago
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grassroutes:
my man thank you
despite what ever context israel gained the weaponry, they still have it nonethe less, they cant (as a nation) unlearn what they were taught.just as osama cant be made to unlearn what he got from us in the 80s despite using cia tactics against us. while even the most pragamatic must concede that thier is in some form a wizard of oz behind the scenes pulling geo political strings, to know how this is done is purely speculative and inconclusive as it can be applied to china or the soviets as much as us or israel.its funny but your argument showing israels tyrany is self defeating. you claim that israel is guilty of merciless retaliation in the region.firstly it all israels actions come as a retaliation to another countries initial aggression. take away the arab aggression (the basis) and there is no retaliation. your position places the origin of blame on other arab states.further more the region is a vague term and its my understanding that the "region"refers to the middle east, where israel has yet to wage war on any nation other than thier immediate nieghbors who threaten them.israel has never attacked ciaro or amann even when egypt and jordan attacked them.
as to merciless, i think calling civililians in advance of air strikes is as mercifull as war can be compared to suicide bombings and rocket fire aimed at schools. - 2 years ago
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israels preoccupation with defense would seem unwarrented if a decade could pass without an arab nation declaring war on them, being as they have had more wars impossed on them in 62 years than we have in 300 makes thier concern quit valid and needed.
i dont know how israel can be called a colonial power as they control no other territories outside of thier borders. isreal isnt a colony of something else it is a self governing entity. if anything we are more a colonialist power (puerto rico,samoa,guam) than israel.in response to israel being an aggressive state how many times has israel agreed to peace and how many times have the palastinians? how many times has israel offered the olive branch compared to the palastinians? how many cease fires has israel followed compared to palastinians?
actualy it is quit reasonable to not persue nuclear capabilities as mexico feels no need to amass nukes despite us being the wallmart of nukes.more importantly than will is process. thier are guidlines by wich nuclear states are allowed, and iran has ignored these guidlines that the world, including china and the soviets, require to insure peace.iran is scapegoating a country (israel) who has never,doesnt,nor will pose a threat to them.the only war iran ever had was with iraq.despite what leftist spin doctors claim israel has never threatened to invade, or go to war with iran. a military strike on a nuclear facility may be an act of war but it is not a threat nor a declaration, as it wasnt when israel took out syrias nukes, or when israel took out iraqs nukes.
niether country are flying the star of david flag as israel didnt go to war with them.outside of politics it doesnt concern you that a heavily sanctioned country that lacks the appropriate materials are making nukes substituting (metaphoricaly of course) duct tape for actual sealents?
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