A New York City audience that turned
out September 28th to hear Shimon Peres brag about his role as a Middle
East peacemaker got quite a different story from 300 leaflets passed out
at the Columbia University event.
“Shimon Peres Bears Full Responsibility for the Abduction and Imprisonment of
Mordechai Vanunu,” said the leaflet headline.
The leaflets went on to describe how Peres helped establish Israel’s
clandestine nuclear weapons program in the 1950s and then, as prime
minister in 1986, gave orders for the former nuclear weapons technician to
be kidnapped in Italy and punished in Israel for telling the world about his
government’s secret nuclear arsenal.
The leaflets were distributed by the Center for Economic and
Social Rights of Brooklyn, New York, in observance of the 14th
anniversary of the abduction.
