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The ticking time bomb in the Negev Desert is still ticking, marking danger for the people of Israel and all neighboring countries. The calls for international inspection of the Dimona nuclear facility are growing louder, particularly from Israel's near neighbors. But Mordechai, sad to say, has four more years left to serve. The length of time he must continue to bear his terrible burden will depend very much on you and me and others committed to helping free this brave man, and advance his cause of a nuclear-free world. THERE IS STILL TIME TO TELL THEM TO
FREE MORDECHAI VANUNU! For more background information, visit the original version of this site. To read the trial transcripts and the story as it unfolded from November
1999 - Feb 2000, click here. |
One thousand two hundred and thirty-eight.
If you can believe the word of the State of Israel, that is the number of days that remain before Mordechai Vanunu can be released from prison for the crime of telling the world the truth about his government’s secret nuclear weapons program. That information came a few weeks ago from Mordechai’s brother Asher, a Jerusalem school administrator, who said officials at Ashkelon Prison had given Vanunu an “out-date” of April 22, 2004, just five months short of completion of his 18-year sentence. Israel once claimed that the transcript of Vanunu’s closed door trial was so sensitive it could never be made public. But a year ago, bending to public pressure, it released most of the trial record and permitted the Knesset’s first open debate on nuclear secrecy. Current Prime Minister Ehud Barak, seeking to shore up his right-wing support, hinted for months that Vanunu could never be safely set free because of the state secrets locked in his brain. But, bowing to world-wide pressure, his government has now set an official release date-albeit one that is intolerably distant. Pressure from his supporters in America and abroad has pried
open the lock on Mordechai’s isolation cell and the lock on the policy
of secrecy by which his government and our own have protected Israel’s
illicit production of weapons of mass destruction. Continuing pressure
can shorten Vanunu’s suffering and strengthen the cause of nuclear abolition. |
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The U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
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maintained by Gail
Beyer Vaughn: gvaughn@datarealm.com
last updated Feb 14 2001.
