From Occupied Palestine

I am your spy: Mordechai Vanunu interview
JOHANNES WAHLSTROM
IMEMC, 25 October 2004

Jerusalem -- Ten minutes stroll northward from the lively alleyways of the Old City and its renowned golden dome lays one of the Holy Land's smallest parishes; the Anglican Church, with its neo-gothic St George Cathedral. The massive towers and defence-walls give the impression of an impregnable bastion, while inside one finds a green oasis of tranquillity. In the inner yard, surrounded by grapes, almonds, olives, pomegranates, sage, narcissus, cypress, oleander, roses and all other imaginable and unimaginable biblical plants, lays a Guesthouse. Here, weary Jerusalem pilgrims rest their sore feet after a long day in the Holy City. And here for the past four months, a fellow-Anglican, the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has taken his refuge.

U.K. journalist Peter Hounam: Israel should be ashamed for arresting me
YOSSI MELMAN, et al.
Ha'artez, 28 May 2004

British journalist Peter Hounam said Thursday night Israel should be ashamed for arresting him, adding he had been held in a "dungeon with excrement on the walls."

Hounam was released from custody Thursday night, a day after the Shin Bet security services detained him on suspicion that he was involved in interviewing former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, who was freed in April after serving 18 years for spilling Israel's nuclear secrets.

Israeli arrest of UK reporter branded a farce
SHARMILA DEVI
Financial Times, 27 May 2004

Israel's arrest of the British Sunday Times journalist who broke the story of nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was described as a "farce" by his lawyer on Thursday.

Whistle-blower: 'I feared brain-washing... They were out to destroy my personality'
DONALD MacINTYRE
Independent, 25 April 2004

Nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu was convinced during his long years of imprisonment that his jailers were out to brainwash him.

The terrible secret
URI AVNERY
Gush Shalom, 24 April 2004

In the darkness of a cinema, a woman's voice: "Hey! Take your hands off! Not you! YOU!"

This old joke illustrates the American policy regarding nuclear armaments in the Middle East. "Hey, you there, Iraq and Iran and Libya, stop it! Not YOU, Israel!"

The danger of nuclear arms was the main pretext for the invasion of Iraq. Iran is threatened in order to compel it to stop its nuclear efforts. Libya has surrendered and is dismantling its nuclear installations.

The release of Mordechai Vanunu
STEVE BELL
Guardian, 22 April 2004

Steve Bell's cartoon about the release of Mordechai Vanunu: click here

'I am proud and happy to do what I did'
Vanunu released by Israel after 18 years but fears for his safety remain
DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Guardian, 22 April 2004

Ashkelon -- The hand that 18 years ago had the message "hijacked" scrawled across its palm was yesterday waving and making the peace sign as its owner passed through the blue and white bars of the gate of Shikma prison in Ashkelon.

Capturing nuclear whistle-blower was 'a lucky stroke,' agents recall
YOSSI MELMAN
Ha'aretz, 21 April 2004

"It was luck, pure luck, that we managed to track him down, establish contact with him, and bring him to Israel in the end," a former top Mossad official who was involved in Mordechai Vanunu's capture, recalled this week.

Nuclear hero's 'crime' was making us safer
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Los Angeles Times, 21 April 2004

Mordechai Vanunu is the preeminent hero of the nuclear era. He consciously risked all he had in life to warn his own country and the world of the true extent of the nuclear danger facing us. And he paid the full price, a burden in many ways worse than death, for his heroic act — for doing exactly what he should have done and what others should be doing.

Mazuz: Vanunu is a significant danger to state security
GIDEON ALON
Ha'aretz, 21 April 2004

The release of nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu from prison "will create a significant danger to state security," Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said yesterday.