Israel Detains Nuclear Whistleblower Near Bethlehem

[seemslikeadream]

Dec 24, 2004 — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was detained on Friday as he tried to enter the West Bank city of Bethlehem for Christmas in defiance of restrictions on his movement, Israeli police said.

Vanunu, a Christian convert from Judaism, was freed in April at the end of an 18-year prison term for treason. Vanunu's revelations to a British newspaper led experts to conclude that Israel had between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons.

"Vanunu said in preliminary investigations that even though he knew he was banned by the Israeli authorities from traveling to Bethlehem, he asked to pray at the Church of the Nativity. He is being transferred for further investigation," a statement said.
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[Wright Patman]

1. That Vanunu fellow

is being treated as if he were "radioactive."

[karl meltdown]

2. IF HE were iranian whistleblower ...

he would be tortured then be-headed or shot in public then a wide variety of his family would be persecuted harshly also.

[pinerow]

4. And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle...in other words...

what does Iran or anything Iranian have to do with this poor fellow who only wants to pray to his version of an invisible cloud being...or so he claims...

[Minstrel Boy]

6. If he WERE an Iranian whistleblower

he would be feted in the US as a hero, receive a $$$ book deal, and be a fixture of cable news.

As it is, how many even know his name?


"Vanunu was hijacked in Rome, Italy, 30/9/86, 21:00 hours"

[pinerow]

8. Good point...!!

nt

[Jim Sagle]

13. One is too many.

[Forkboy]

14. One of you or him?

[Jim Sagle]

16. One of you, actually.

[QueerJustice]

17. Yes...

...but hes not....

[Jim Sagle]

3. Fuck'm.

[wuushew]

7. No fuck Israel

why should one man who reveals secrets on an illegal nuclear arms program be denounced? What ever happened to honor amongst thieves?

Are you going to say that somehow you know Israel to be intrinsically benevolent and beyond the cold impartial watch of international law?

[Jim Sagle]

9. International law shrieks in horror when a Palestinian gets a hangnail

but yawns in boredom when millions of Africans are slaughtered.

International law ain't nuthin' but shit.

[pinerow]

10. Nothing like people of color bashing other people of color...

nt

[Gyre]

11. International Law may shriek

when Israeli troops slaughter defenseless Palestinians in wheel-chairs with Hellfire missles bought and paid for with US taxpayer money, but good little Israel-lovers like Jim Sagle say "hey, boyz will be boyz, they were just having a little fun. Lighten up!"

I personally have never heard any Law shriek, and I'm immersed in it everyday. And I certainly have never heard anybody complain about Palestinians with hangnails. I have however, felt sick at the complete lack of due process and weak lies that zionists put forth to justify the non-stop, completely despicable behavior of the IDF in their dealings with an Occupied people.

Methinks Sagle has a taste for overstatement, thereby marginalizing himself at the same time he thinks he's making a point. Hee hee!

Gyre

[Jim Sagle]

12. It's called editorial license. Bone up and I'm sure you'll eventually

dope it out.

[The Magistrate]

15. You Know, Mr. Gyre

It really is a stretch to mouth pious complaints over the dispatch of Sheik Yassin to the Paradise he craved so long, and facilitated so many others' early arrival at: as the leader of an armed militia body, he fits any sensible definition of a leading combatant; there have been infirm genmerals before this....

Of course, how mention of a paroled prisoner's violation of the conditions of that grace worked its way around to such statements must remain a mystery for the ages, eh?

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

[QueerJustice]

26. weak lies that zionists put out?

...mmmm some of my best friends are zionists??

[drdon326]

25. And the UN

CAN'T issue condemnations against Israel fast enough....

Meanwhile they ignore worldwide terrorism and genocide in Darfur.



The UN IS A joke.

[Jim Sagle]

27. Hey, the UN is doin' the best it...aahh, fuck it.

[Paleocon]

28. No, no... Please, finish your thought...

:silly:

[QueerJustice]

18. Fuck Israel.... ??

I say...

Kol Hakavod...


...and Am Yisrael Chai...

[Darranar]

29. Yes, Kol Hakavod Israel!

Who needs justice? Who needs peace? Who needs human rights?

No, let's build more settlements, steal more land, gun down more children, and bulldoze more houses!

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[QueerJustice]

19. When you say....

`Sharon and Likud turn more into Nazis every day!`
``

not only are you ashamed to be a Jew....

....but we are ashamed a Jew would say such an idiotic ,stupid,mindnumbing ,ignorant thing....

obviously you got absolutely NO concept what a NAZI is or was....

[pelsar]

22. Zanti......nazis?

rather pathetic comment. Either you dont know what the Nazis did or you dont know whats happening in the terrirtories...or you just dont want to know.

i would suggest that only realy comparison is that both the Nazis and the IDF wear uniforms, as do the US forces, French, New Zealand, Swedish, Danish armed forces.....

anything else is based on....well why dont you exlain it to us.... (your comparison....)

[The Magistrate]

23. That Comment, Mr. Pelsar

Was made while this discussion was up in the Breaking News forum; it was only transfered down here after the nineteenth comment. Such a comparison is against the rules of this forum; those rules were devised because the commentary on this matter used to contain a tremendous quantity of such bilge, and a good deal of cut and thrust was often necessary to maintain even a semblance of civil discussion. Many people seemingly know no other way to press a point than by exaggeration taken past the point of hyperbole into the realm of the grotesque. It is a confession one has nothing at all to say worth hearing to do so, in my view....

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[regnaD kciN]

21. No, this is DU, all right...

...where the knee-jerk "Israel is always right" crew can be guaranteed to drown out any discussion that might - gasp! - suggest the contrary. I'm only surprised that none of the crew have called you an "anti-Semite" yet. I wonder how much longer it will take...

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