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Home Blog January 2011 January 17, 2011: Response from The White House RE: Mordechai Vanunu Via The New York Times
January 17, 2011: Response from The White House RE: Mordechai Vanunu Via The New York Times |
January 17, 2011:
Response from The White House RE: Mordechai Vanunu Via
The New York Times

When President Obama
took office, this activist reporter began phoning, faxing and emailing him and
Secretary of State Clinton to speak up regarding the fact that Israel continues
to deny the Nuclear Whistle Blower the right to leave the state ever since he emerged
from a tomb sized windowless cell on 21 April 2004, after 18 years in jail for
telling the world the truth and providing the photographic proof that Israel
had manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads by 1986, in the Dimona's seven-story
underground nuclear facility.
For the last two
years, I have been requesting a statement from this Administration vis-à-vis
the fact that Israel’s very statehood was established contingent upon their
upholding the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a co-signer of
the Declaration of Human Rights, America is responsible for holding all Member
States accountable when they fail to honor it. I have relentlessly reminded my
government that Article 13-2 guarantees “Everyone has the right to
leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”
Both Mr. Edgar
Vasques, State Department Media Affairs Officer and Ms. Nicole Thompson, Press
Relations Officer for Clinton, have been gracious to me and Ms. Thompson even raised
my hopes when she told me “it is not impossible to receive an answer from the
Secretary of State.”
As
we cannot know the future, there is no way to ascertain the impossible so I persist. De Gaul
pulled all of France's million settlers out of Algeria when few believed he
would. For decades, South African whites refused to share power with the
country's black majority, and then, overnight, they agreed to do exactly that!
The Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall both fell; and so, I struggle now to break
down the walls of hypocrisy that The New York Times illuminated which also led me to
comprehend why I have not received a statement from The White House, regarding Vanunu yet.
“The Dimona
complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s
never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make
atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to intelligence
and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new,
equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and
Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make
a bomb of its own. Behind Dimona’s barbed wire, the experts say, Israel has
spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian
scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. They say Dimona tested the
effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a
destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran’s
nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran’s ability to
make its first nuclear arms.
“Though American
and Israeli officials refuse to talk publicly about what goes on at Dimona, the
operations there, as well as related efforts in the United States, are among
the newest and strongest clues suggesting that the virus was designed as an
American-Israeli project to sabotage the Iranian program…Officially, neither
American nor Israeli officials will even utter the name of the malicious
computer program, much less describe any role in designing it.
“How and when
Israel obtained this kind of first-generation centrifuge remains unclear,
whether from Europe, or the Khan network, or by other means. But nuclear
experts agree that Dimona came to hold row upon row of spinning centrifuges…Another
clue involves the United States….[An] expert added that Israel worked in
collaboration with the United States in targeting Iran, but that Washington was
eager for ‘plausible deniability.’” [1]
When FDR met with labor leaders for four hours in 1934, he told them, “You've
convinced me that you are right. Now, go out there and FORCE ME TO DO IT.”
What he meant, was that the pressures on a President to stay with the status
quo, the forces of the economic and political elites of the country so
enormous, that even when a President wants to change direction, he requires
forces that will push him in the correct direction.
On April 5, 2009, President Obama raised the hopes of millions with his
promises in Prague:
"We are here today because enough people ignored the voices who told them
that the world could not change. We're here today because of the courage of
those who stood up and took risks to say that freedom is a right for all
people, no matter what side of a wall they live on, and no matter what they
look like. We are here today because the simple and principled pursuit of
liberty and opportunity shamed those who relied on the power of tanks and arms
to put down the will of a people.
"Some argue that the spread of these weapons cannot be stopped, cannot be
checked - that we are destined to live in a world where more nations and more
people possess the ultimate tools of destruction. Such fatalism is a deadly
adversary, for if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable,
then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons
is inevitable.
"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States
has a moral responsibility to act…It will take patience and persistence. But
now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change.
We have to insist, 'Yes, we can.'
"There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted. We
must confront it by standing together as free nations, as free people. I know
that a call to arms can stir the souls of men and women more than a call to lay
them down. But that is why the voices for peace and progress must be raised
together.
"Let us honor our past by reaching for a better future. Let us bridge our
divisions, build upon our hopes, and accept our responsibility to leave this
world more prosperous and more peaceful than we found it. Together we can do
it.
"Words must mean something [and] violence and injustice must be confronted
by standing together as free nations, as free people…[and] Human destiny will
be what we make of it."
In 1987, from Ashkelon prison,
Vanunu wrote:
"The passive acceptance
and complacency with regard to the existence of nuclear weapons anywhere on
earth is the disease of society today…This struggle is not only a legitimate
one - it is a moral, inescapable struggle...no government, not even the most
democratic, can force us to live under this threat. No state in the world can
offer any kind of security against this menace of a nuclear holocaust, or
guarantee to prevent it.
"Already now there are enough nuclear missiles to destroy the world many
times over…This issue should unite us all, because that is our real enemy…Any
country, which manufactures and stocks nuclear weapons, is first of all
endangering its own citizens. This is why the citizens must confront their
government and warn it that it has no right to expose them to this danger.
"Because, in effect, the citizens are being held hostage by their own
government, just as if they have been hijacked and deprived of their freedom
and threatened…Indeed, when governments develop nuclear weapons without the
consent of their citizens - and this is true in most cases - they are violating
the basic rights of their citizens, the basic right not to live under constant
threat of annihilation.
"Is any government qualified and authorized to produce such weapons?”
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
"When I became the spy for the world, I did it all for the people of the
world. If governments do not report the truth, and if the media does not report
the truth, then all we can do is follow our consciences. Daniel Ellsberg did,
the woman from Enron did, and I did.
"President Kennedy tried
to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. Prime Minister Ben Guirion said, 'The nuclear reactor is only for peace."
"Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters
demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
"When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two
senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the
Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways.
From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that
hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
"Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a
result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred
bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.
"The Israelis have 200
atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and Muslims of terrorism. The
Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years. The Dimona has never been
inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but all
the Arab states have.
"Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was
blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now. The
world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the
Palestinians have lived under that terror regime for 40 years.”
While campaigning, Obama once admitted that if we took the Sermon on the Mount
seriously, it would lead to the abolishment of the Industrial Military Complex
and "Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”-Dorothy
Day
“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.
There can be no question that unless nuclear weapons and war are abolished and
all people are free and known as equals; the world will remain in a state of
madness run by hypocrites in high places.
US and Israeli Nuclear Deceptions
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2&pagewanted=all
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“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 |
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