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DO NOT REWARD THE PIRATES: The Financial Crisis of September 2008
By Citizen Paul
09/30/08
Our current financial-industry crisis started brewing years ago because of political and ideological extremism. The antiregulation zealots have systematically eroded and eliminated the essential safeguards that have kept the industry honest and accountable, and these actions, over time, allowed and encouraged unbridled greed to run amuck on Wall Street and throughout the banking [...]
A chance meeting with Mordechai Vanunu
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Mordechai Vanunu
Israel’s Secret Nuclear Program and Its Bitter Revenge
I was fortunate to meet with Mordechai on my recent visit to Israel and to speak with him not only about his own situation but of the great dangers of a future nuclear war in the Middle East.
Mordechai Vanunu is a former Israeli and a former Jew*. As a man of great courage and integrity, Vanunu decided years ago that he could not tolerate Israel’s many and repeated violations of international law and that because of the work he had done, he had a civic responsibility to tell the world what he knew about Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program.
Consequently, Vanunu decided to become a Christian and renounce his Israeli citizenship. And, he went to London to reveal his story.
On October 5, 1986, the entire front page of the London Sunday Times was all about Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, complete with pictures.
Mordechai Vanunu had become a “nuclear whistleblower.” Vanunu believes, and rightly so, that Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program was setting the region on a course that would eventually result in nuclear proliferation leading to nuclear war.
Israeli nuclear facility at Dimon in Negev Desert
Like other major whistleblowers to whom we owe so much (Daniel Ellsberg from the past and Sibel Edmonds more recently come to mind in our own country) Vanunu acted out of conscience and not at all for personal gain. Indeed, he was made to pay a tremendous price and he is still being forced into submission now 22 years later.
The Israelis enticed Vanunu into a “honey trap” with their American-pretending Mossad agent –– Cheryl Hanin Bentov, “Cindy,” now said to be living comfortably thanks to the Israelis and the U.S. in Florida.
After enticing him into an affair, “Cindy” convinced Vanunu to go with her on a “vacation” to Rome.
There, Mossad agents drugged and kidnapped him. In contemptuous violation of international law, they smuggled him secretly on a ship to Israel.**
In a secret trial he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. For 11 of those years Vanunu was kept in solitary confinement in conditions that Amnesty International characterized as “cruel, inhuman, and degrading.”
Finally, after protests throughout the world and Amnesty adopting him as a special “Prisoner of Conscience,” Vanunu was released in 2004.
But the Israelis then did what they seem to relish. They used various new legal tricks to make it a crime for Vanunu to speak with foreign journalists or even to travel a few miles to pray in Bethlehem at Christmas time.
Supposedly, according to the Israelis, this single man whom they kidnapped and imprisoned for 18 years, was even now so dangerous that he had to be further deprived of his basic human rights, and confined in Jerusalem where he is shunned and ostracized by most Israelis. Indeed, new efforts are underway to imprison Vanunu again after all he has already been subjected to.
Mordechai was right and he has certainly earned the right to be listened to for his heroic and continuing acts of conscience. For whatever reasons, the Israelis are the ones who introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East.
It is Israel that repeatedly violated international law and even today it is Israel that continues to lie about its nuclear weapons program and refuse any and all forms of international inspection. It is Israel, in fact, that has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NPT. Iran has not only signed this treaty and, year after year, allowed and cooperated with international inspections. Iran, in fact, has not even been charged with violating the NPT which it has carefully lived up to.
But more than anything else the NPT is preventing nuclear war in the Middle East, which all of us should be striving to achieve. That is one of the main reasons I decided at this time to see for myself what is happening in Israel and in Occupied Palestine.
Vanunu displays copy of the original newspaper in which he revealed Israel’s nuclear secrets.
Resolving the core conflict in the region, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and then working overtime to make the entire Middle East region one free of weapons of mass destruction is a central theme in the Goals for Americans publication PLAN PALESTINE and A NEW MIDDLE EAST.
*Believing now in the “Golden Rule” … unlike the Mossad and Israel’s government. **It was more convenient for them to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea than to take him all the way from London.
PALESTINIANS and also AMERICANS BETRAYED!
By Citizen Paul
The United Nations in March of this year appointed Professor Richard Falk as the key person to report to the international community about what the Israelis have done and are doing to the Palestinian People. Falk is one of our country’s most discussed experts on world affairs and himself a proud [...]
BEWARE: ISRAEL LOBBY PREPARES FOR U.S. ELECTION
One Arm of the Lobby’s: “Grand Strategy for America and the Middle East”
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Whether it’s Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin in the White House in January, the Israeli Lobby is in high-gear and getting ready.
Both parties and both campaigns have been infiltrated and pretty much already captured by different [...]
A Golden Opportunity: Turning Bitter Fruit into Gold
I have great admiration for the Israeli people and for Jewish people as a whole. Their accomplishments are many, their talents abundant, their past suffering truly horrible beyond description.
And yet the policies of the Israeli government toward the Palestinian people are terrible, cruel, and uncivilized and, as such, unacceptable. They are abhorrent and must be changed.
Facing such injustices, we Citizens [...]
Yahav Zohar – Settlement Peace Activist Volunteer
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Citizen Paul and Yahav on balcony over-looking Israeli settlement
During our trip, we met Yahav Zohar, an Israeli who has worked as a journalist and translator but also commits at least one day a week to volunteering his time to work toward a just peace –– to end the Israeli occupation. Yahav was the official guide for the antidemolition group The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD), an organization that
opposes the demolition of Palestinian homes and unjust tactics taken by the military and housing authority for demolishing homes and granting permits.
On the day we met, we had attended a presentation by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory. We were briefed on the humanitarian crisis and consequences that need to be addressed:
The United Nations deserves the World’s Support –– it has had little help and has had many obstructions from Israel!
- Lack of protection for civilians and continuing violence
- Closure, movement restrictions and lack of access
- Political geographical and institutional fragmentation
- High Food Insecurity
- Continuous Decline in the Economy and Socio-Economic Conditions
- Agricultural Livelihoods Threatened
- Health-Care Quality Deteriorating; Mental-Health-Disorder Symptoms on Rise
- Access to Quality Water and Sanitation Problematic
- Basic education standards Deteriorating
- Palestinian Civilians at Risk and in Need of Protection
- Children Exposed to Violence and Rights Violations on a Daily Basis
- Increased Humanitarian Coordination Needed
- Gender-Based Impact of the Crisis
Following the meeting, Zohar took us to some key areas where Israelis have demolished Palestinian homes and expropriated land to build new Jewish-only settlements. Despite announced agreements otherwise, this practice continues to make the prospect of a two-state solution less possible.
The UN holds the West Bank and Gaza Strip together –– almost Single-Handedly!
About the film THE IRON WALL
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:
“Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – [...]