by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
November 21, 2010
Cosmic Irony [is] the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations. It also [encompasses] the belief that the universe is so large and man so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man.
Mordechai Vanunu was born on 13 October 1954 in Marrakesh, Morocco. From east Jerusalem in 2005, he told me: Continue reading
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18 June 2010
Amnesty International has accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement.
The 56-year-old, who spent 18 years in prison for revealing details of the country’s nuclear arsenal to a UK newspaper in 1986, was sent back to jail for three months on 23 May on charges of contact with a foreign national, and almost immediately placed in solitary confinement.
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“Mordechai Vanunu should not be in prison at all, let alone be held in solitary confinement in a unit intended for violent criminals,” said Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East Programme.
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via Israeli nuclear whistleblower returned to solitary confinement | Amnesty International
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by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
7 June, 2010
Eighty-nine-year old Journalist Helen Thomas has taken a lot of heat for daring to address the fact that any Jew without any historical connection to Israel is encouraged to settle-as in colonize-upon legally owned Palestinian land.
I learned about, Aliyah, which means ‘going up,’ during my first of seven trips to Israel and occupied Palestine in June 2005 from an American Jewess who had taken the deal and she informed me: Continue reading
by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
26 May, 2010
TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
By Mairead Maguire – Nobel Peace Laureate
I never cease to be amazed at the power of the human spirit to survive. During my last visit to Gaza in October 2008 I was amazed and deeply moved by the power of the people I witnessed. In a triumph of hope over adversity and tremendous suffering, love still abides.
by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
24 May, 2010
On May 24, 2010, the international press blew the doors wide open regarding President Shimon Peres’ “secret” offer to sell nuclear warheads to the South African Apartheid regime in 1975.
It was reported that PW Botha, South Africa’s defense minister asked Shimon Peres-who was then Israel’s defense minister-for nuclear warheads.
Peres offered them “in three sizes” which are understood as conventional, chemical and nuclear weapons!
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May 24, 2010 — The first official evidence of Israel possessing nuclear weapons may have been discovered by an US academic. Britain’s Guardian newspaper has published the declassified agreement, which suggests Israel offered to sell arms to South Africa in the 1970s.
by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
22 May, 2010
eileenfleming — May 9, 2011
View WAWA’s exclusive and uncensored interview with Mordechai Vanunu from March 24, 2006, (that has not gone through Israeli Military censors), and understand his thoughts on what is taking place in modern Israel Palestine, his views on human rights, as well as his current situation and persecution from the Israeli Government.
by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
22 May, 2010
15-Feb-09 Vanunu updates the world on the second anniversary of his three year long FREEDOM of SPEECH trial in Israel. Vanunu’s Supreme Court Appeal is still TBA. The 5th year of restrictions that deny him the RIGHT to leave the state, the RIGHT to speak to non-Israelis expire April 21, 2009. Learn More: VANUNU ARCHIVES WeAreWideAwake.org
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by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
22 May, 2010
Updated: May 24, 2010
Here’s Vanunu reading his speech, Shame on you: Vanunu med tordentale før fengslingen – Verden – NRK Nyheter
From: Vanunu Mordechai J C.
To: [me]
Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM
Subject: SHAME ON YOUSHAME ON YOU.
ISRAEL VERY STUPID SPIES.
MOSSAD SHABACK FOR PUTTING ME BACK IN PRISON AFTER 24 YEARS FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
SHAME ON YOU. ISRAEL MEDIA STUPID SPIES, HAAREZ EDIOT AHARONOT MAARIVE FOR SELF DECEPTION.
by Eileen Fleming
Writer, Dandelion Salad
14 May, 2010
On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service.” [1]
Vanunu is scheduled to return to jail on May 23, 2010, because the ‘justices’ refused his offer to do community service in occupied east Jerusalem as they do not view that side of town to be a part of their community.
On May 12, 2010, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL urged the Israeli government not to re-imprison Mordechai Vanunu.
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by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
11 May, 2010
On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service.” [1]
The ‘justices’ refused Vanunu’s offer to do community service in occupied east Jerusalem, because they do not view that side of town to be a part of their community.
On April 30, 2007, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, convicted Vanunu on 14 [out of 21] counts of violating a court order prohibiting him from speaking to foreign journalists in 2004. Vanunu was also convicted for traveling the four miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem when he hoped to attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of the Nativity, his first Christmas after being released from 18 years in jail [most of it in solitary] on April 21, 2004.
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by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
May 1, 2010
The NPT/Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, was created in 1968, and maintains that nuclear weapons proliferation can only be curtailed if nuclear countries move toward disarmament.
The purpose of the NPT Review, which happens every five years, is to reaffirm the signatories’ commitments to the treaty’s three purposes: disarmament, nonproliferation, and peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Countries without nuclear weapons that signed the NPT, such as Iran, were promised full support in developing other nuclear technologies in exchange for renouncing nuclear weapons. The five nuclear powers that signed the NPT agreed to get rid of their nuclear weapons.
By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
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liberalpro.blogspot.com September 27, 2009
October 1, 2009
Anyone with a modicum of sense knows what this post is about. We all feel a bit angry with Iran for running a clandestine nuclear facility. If you took this issue and didn’t involve anything else into it, sure, tight sanctions may be just what are needed. It’s unfortunate that our government works that way. We see the United States, time after time, reacting to world events instead of looking at the big picture. Reacting to events leaves us being wrapped around the axle every time. Too many crises will leave us little time to forge ahead with our own agenda, whatever that may be.
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By Eileen Fleming
12/27/07 “ICH”
On Christmas Eve evening I picked up my mail and opened up a card from Jerusalem sent to me by Mordechai Vanunu. He made me laugh out loud, for he addressed it to: “Eileen Flaming” not Fleming, which is my actual name.
But, upon reflection, I think Vanunu has renamed me well; for I am flaming over the hypocrisy and injustice of empire and apathy and ignorance of good Christians who have no eyes to see, ears to hear, or hearts that bleed for the poor and oppressed in the Holy land and the entire Middle East. Continue reading
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