WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." Unamuno
"Imagine All the People Sharing All the World." John Lennon
"If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees." Father Philip Francis Berrigan
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down." Tom Petty
"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet." Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again" Tom Paine
"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
DO SOMETHING!
Photo of George shown here and in web site banner courtesy of Debbie Hill, 2000.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence
Once upon a time, there was an old widow, who lived in a certain town with a judge who cared nothing about justice, people or God. But an old widowed crone kept coming to him with her plea, "Grant me justice against my adversary."
The judge ignored her until she became such a PIA [pain in the ass] he finally muttered to himself, "Even though I don't fear God or care a hoot about this old crone, she has become such a PIA, I will give into her, just to get her to leave me alone!" [Paraphrased from a story Jesus told in Luke 18 1-5]
Today, I begin knocking on the door [via cell phone] of The Supreme Court of Israel: +972-267-59612
Yesterday, I mailed the following letter:
Dorit Beinish, President Supreme Court of Israel Shaarei Mishpat Street Jerusalem, PR 91909 Israel
Dear Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish,
On July 6, 2009, you stated in regards to Mordechai Vanunu, that his "case is still generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media's attention he gets is proof of that."
On Vanunu's Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
, I counted a quick dozen footnotes to articles that I have written since 2007 from my interviews with Vanunu-and not in one did we discuss '"security-related" issues or nuclear weapons-but we did talk about his faith, human rights abuses by Israel, the Christian Exodus from the Holy Land and the news pertaining to his freedom of speech trial.
The enclosed book relates only my first four trips to Israel Palestine. I have been back three more times since it was printed and I encountered a different Vanunu each time.
I still have not written things he told me in 2005-and NOTHING he said referred to "security-related" issues or nuclear weapons.
Everything he said proved to me how severely he was tortured during 18 years in Ashkelon.
Those stories are only for Vanunu to go public with: I will not.
But, knowledge brings responsibility and when I last saw my brother in JC on June 14, 2009, it broke my heart all over again to see his ongoing suffering-and he never complained-I am sharing with you what I saw and what I feel is that the ongoing injustices against him are because he is a Christian, and THAT is the story I will persist to write and speak about, until I can write my last chapter about VMJC: Thank God Almighty he is FREE NOW!
Yours persistently, most sincerely and in solidarity with Micah 6:8: "What does God require? He has told you: Be just, be merciful, and walk humbly with your Lord."
Eileen Fleming, A Feature Correspondent for The Palestine Telegraph and Arabisto.com Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
Enclosed copies of:
The Jewish
State VS Mordechai Vanunu: A Case of Christian Persecution
Vanunu
Mordechai J.C.; like a prisoner in a world of mystery - Bob DylanRead more...
The
Martyrdom of Vanunu: Machiavelli and Peres Read more...
And
a copy of "Memoirs of a NiceIrish-AmericanGirl's Life
inOccupiedTerritory"
11 AM EST:
I reached the voice mail of Public Affairs in Jerusalem RE: wanting to dialogue with Dorit Beinish, President Supreme Court of Israel as I am sure she referred to me as media who has been interested in reporting on Vanunu.
Way past time for Israel to come out of Cold War thinking and see that in order to remain secure in their claim as a democracy, they must uphold universal human rights:
Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 13: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
July 9: Phone contact office of Israeli Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish and and I emailed:
Dear Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish,
On July 6, 2009, in regards to Mordechai Vanunu, you stated that his "case is still generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media's attention he gets is proof of that."
I am the USA media who has been reporting on Vanunu since June 2005, but never about security related issues.
My interest in Vanunu has always been about the person he was and is and how his faith helps him endure the denial of his inalienable human right to free speech and movement.
1. ^ Christmas Eve arrest 2. ^ The Vanunu Saga: 2008 By Eileen Fleming 3. ^ Voices - A Man without a Country has a Local and Global Community 4. ^ We Are Wide Awake.org - Eye Witness Reporting on Israel Palestine 5. ^ Vanunu's Fifth Year of Restrictions Begins and Norway Caves» OpEdNews 6. ^ On 13 May 2008 Vanunu wrote 7. ^ The Ongoing NAKBA And Vanunu by Eileen Fleming 8. ^ A Sunday with Vanunu The Palestine Telegraph by Eileen Fleming June 16th, 2009 9. ^ "Vanunu Writes to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee: 'I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Shimon Peres'". thepeoplesvoice.org. 2 March 2009. http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/03/02/vanunu-writes-to-the-nobel-peace-prize-c.
10. In June 2009, Letters to Netanyahu and Obama: FREE VANUNU NOW, was established as a Face Book Cause in support of Vanunu's right to leave Israel. [2]
On April 21, 2004, Vanunu stated:
"I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptised into Christianity. If I was a Jew I wouldn't have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years. Only because I was a Christian man."
On July 6, 2009, I phoned Vanunu and he said:
"You have freedom of speech and freedom of movement. Do what you want. But I am not publishing anything. Everything is already on the Internet."
On my site alone are 2005, 2006, 2008 video interviews with Vanunu and reports from day one of his freedom of speech trial.
As a reporter, I am asking the Court what can Israel gain by detaining Vanunu-other than the bad publicity generated through the internationals who will meet him?
I am pleading with the High Court to be just and merciful and put an end to the Vanunu Saga and reap good PR, by allowing him his right to leave Israel and have the opportunity to fade away into history, instead of continuing to make it.
Yours persistently, most sincerely and in solidarity with Micah 6:8: "What does God require? He has told you: Be just, be merciful, and walk humbly with your Lord."
Eileen Fleming, A Feature Correspondent for The Palestine Telegraph and Arabisto.com Founder of http://www.wearewideawake.org/ Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."-Article 13:2 UN UDHR
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -Article 19. UN UDHR
On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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