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November 2004 RE: Re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu
Dear Mr. Sharon,
I
am writing to express my outrage over the re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu on the
morning of November 11 in his room at St. George’s Cathedral in East Jerusalem,
by a large posse of police officers. While the world media turned its attention
to the burial of Yasser Arafat, your military police took full advantage of the
situation and proceeded to whisk away Vanunu to an undisclosed prison. His only
crime was to reveal the terrible truth that Israel is trying to hide: its large stockpile of WMD’s that have been
concealed from Israeli citizens and the world at large.
As
you aware, Vanunu worked in Israeli’s secret nuclear program in the Dimona
nuclear “research center” in the Negev Desert at Beersheba in the 1980's.
During this period he was increasingly troubled by his country’s disregard and
contempt for international law. Accordingly, he took extensive photographs
inside the nuclear facility and finally went public with his story in the
London Sunday Times on October 5, 1986. He was subsequently arrested and spent
the next 18 years in prison.
I
call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mordechai Vanunu.
It
is tragic that we have waged a war on Iraq who imposed no threat to us, but
remain silent to Israeli’s development of WMD’s for more than 20 years in
complete disregard and contempt for international law.
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