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Free Mordechai Vanunu - Info & Action Alert #1

In this Alert:

1. Restrictions on Vanunu's release announced
2. Action to Take

1. Restrictions on Vanunu's release announced

On Thursday, April 8, a letter was given to Mordechai Vanunu detailing the restrictions the government Intends to enforce following his release from prison April 21.

Vanunu will have one week to appeal. An lsraeli civil rights group is prepared to argue for his complete freedom, because he will have completed his entire sentence behind bars.

Press reports say that the document, signed by Minister of the Interior Avraham Poraz, remind Vanunu that he is stilt bound by the secrecy agreement that he signed when he went to work at Dimcna, and that if he violates this agreement he will be prohibited from using telephone/internet and might lose his freedom. He would reportedly be prohibited to go within 100 meters of a foreign embassy, or within 300 meters of Israel's international borders or the Occupied Territories. Also, an order prohibiting him from leaving the country will soon be delivered to Mordechai.

As soon as details of the restrictions are confirmed, we will post an alert to this list and ask you to protest by phone, fax or email to appropriate offices of the Israeli government.

2. Action to Take

In the meantime, please telephone the Israeli Embassy in your country. Tell them that you are concerned about Mordechai Vanunu and watching the situation closely, and demand he be set free without restriction by April 21.

Israeli embassy contact details

Washington, DC
Political Department
Tel; (202)364-5581, 5582
Fax: (202)364-5490
Press Office
Tel: (202) 364-5538
Fax: (202) 364-5610

Ottawa, Canada
Tel: (613)587-6450
Fax: (613)237-8865
Email: embisrott@cyberus.ca

London, United Kingdom
Tel: 0207 957 9500
Fax: 0207 957 9555
Email: Info-assist@london.mfa.gov.il

The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel: 070-3760500
Fax: 070-3760555
Email: ambassade@lsrael.nl

International delegation

An international delegation is being organised to go to Israel for Mordechai's release from prison on April 21st. As of April 1st there are over 70 people booked to go on the delegation from 11 countries, America, UK, Australia, Japan, Italy, Holland, Norway, Hungary, Germany and Poland. Many more Israeli well wishers and supporters are expected to join the delegation. MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Colin Breed will be on the delegation as will MEP Luisa Morganitini (Italy). Also going are trustees of the Campaign; Susannah York, Bruce Kent, Ben Birnberg and Andrew Wilski.

Mairaed Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will be heading a small group from the executive of the Peace People of Ireland. And many of the others who are going from the UK and America are long time peace activists and campaigners against nuclear weapons.

Supporters and well wishers have been very generous with their donations to help cover the cost of the delegation. However, if you would like to add your contribution to this appeal there is still time.

The delegation will be in Israel from April 19th to April 23/24.

Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 392.

To date 36 MPs have signed the motion.

View the motion online at:
The Early Day Motions Web Site

The Motion:

MORDECHAI VANUNU 12.01.04

Primary sponsor Jeremy Corbyn

That this House welcomes the forthcoming release of Dr Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower and voice for peace, in April 2004, after 17 1/2 years in prison, 12 of which were, regrettably, spent in solitary confinement; calls upon the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to contact the Israeli authorities to confirm the definite date and time of Mr Vanunu's release and, furthermore, to establish that no conditions will be attached to his release; and calls upon Israel, as an additional move towards peace in the Middle East, to follow the example of the Libyan President and renounce its dependence on nuclear weapons, and to engage with the Independent Atomic Energy Agency to initiate a process of inspection of its nuclear weapons, installations and production facilities.

Welcome Vanunu out of prison on April 21st 2004!

We call on all our supporters to join us outside Ashkelon Prison on the day Mordechai is due for release.  If you intend coming, inform the office soon to let us know.  We will contact you over travel arrangements nearer the time. Please help us provide for Mordechai's future. Please click on the following link to download a form.

Printable donation/enquiry/travel form

Vigil

Every Saturday for 11 years the Campaign has held a vigil near the Israel Embassy, in Kensington, from noon till 2 pm, to call for Mordechai's release, and to continue his work of telling the world about Israel's nuclear weapons and the dangers that they represent. Join us.

LATEST VIGIL REPORT

As delegates and well-wishers from around the world, including British MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Colin Breed prepare to go to Israel to greet Mordechai and celebrate his freedom, the few people left at the British Campaign base in London will be hard-pressed to respond individually to all enquiries, and to events as they unfold. Here are the plans.

VIGILS.

We will gather at noon on 17 April on Kensington High Street, as we have for over a decade, to bear witness to the injustice of Mordechai's punishment and to inform the public, as usual, of the ideals for which he stands. His message of peace and defiance has not dimmed over 18 years.

On 24 April, the last vigil is planned to celebrate Mordechai's freedom and to stand in solidarity with him in his demand for a future of freedom to speak and to travel with his message of hope for a future free of nuclear weapons.

PROTEST.

If though by 24 April, Mordechai is not free, for any reason - including re-arrest after his release - the vigil will again become a protest and a call for action. Should this happen, the website will be updated as necessary to keep you informed of events: what the Campaign is doing and what you can do.

At present, we expect the release to go ahead on 21 April, and we believe Mordechai will be able to meet his supporters with no restrictions on his movements within Israel. We also think surveillance on him will be heavy and probably oppressive, and that provocation and re-arrest, once he exercises his freedom of speech, are real threats.

UPDATES.

Keep your eye on the website for news as we get it, and join us on our (hopefully) final vigils. On 24 April, why not come in fancy dress, and bring food, drink and music or noise-makers - including children!

AROUND THE COUNTRY EVENTS

Mid Somerset CND are planning a vigil outside Shepton Mallet Prison in Town Street, Shepton Mallet, Sommerset, UK on 21 April, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Contact Helena Eden, 01761 419333

West Midlands CND is having a vigil on April 22nd. Unfortunately we'd booked the date before the release day was changed, but never mind.

It's in Birmingham Cathedral Churchyard, at 5pm, a time when a lot of people walk across the churchyard.

Our placards will read:

• "Mordechai Vanunu - 18 years in an Israeli prison"
• "Israel's nuclear weapons revealed"
• "Mordechai Vanunu - now released"

If he is not released properly, we shall write "Cancelled" on the final set of placards.

For more details email Jenny Maxwell

Pax Christi group in Leeds plan to do something on the 21 April.

For more details email Joe and Carol

Scottish CND vigils will be held as follows:

5.30 pm Wed 21 April Buchanan St underground, Glasgow
5.30 pm Wed 21 April Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Contact details:
John Ainslie, Coordinator, Scottish CND,
15 Barrland Street, Glasgow, G41 1QH
Tel: 0141 423 1222
Email: scnd@banthebomb.org
Website: www.banthebomb.org

Join Greater Manchester & District CND at 12 noon in St. Ann's Square, Manchester on Wednesday 21st April.

We are hoping to have a telephone link with our friends who will be at Ashkelon prison to greet Mordechai when he is released.

For more details email gmdcnd@gn.apc.org

The Camden Palestine Campaign has organised a picket at Camden Town Hall on 21 April.

For more details email camdenpc@btopenworld.com

Dublin Catholic Worker & Pit Stop Ploughshares are holding an all night vigil at

Dublin's Israeli Embassy April 20 - 21
122 Pembrooke Rd, Dublin D4
Begins Tuesday April 20 7.30 pm
- Multi faith service 8.30pm
- Walk to Dail Wed 11 am

Contact details:
Email: pitstopploughshares@hotmail.com
Website: irishantiwar.org

Salisbury CND is holding a small gathering in the city centre on 21 April.

They also invite everyone to a Public Meeting on Tuesday, 23rd March, 7.30 pm, at Sarum College, The Close.
The Speaker is our own Ernest Rodker from the Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu and for a Nuclear-free Middle East.

For more details on both / either of the above please telephone 01722 325110

Message from the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone

21 April 2004

Dear Mordechai,

I am sorry I cannot be with your other supporters today as they celebrate your release from prison. I salute your courage and determination over the past 17 and half years, sacrificing your freedom for the sake of a nuclear free Middle East and nuclear free world. I hope at a some point you may want to come to London to meet the many supporters who have campaigned tirelessly on your behalf. I look forward to welcoming you.

Restrictions to be faced by Mordechai Vanunu on release - more info

Mordechai Vanunu will face many restrictions on his release from Ashkelon Prison, so many that his new freedom will be seriously compromised. " It is absolutely disgraceful that these restrictions are being imposed on a man who has finished his 18 year sentence, has no charges to face and has suffered so much already" said Rayna Moss of the Israeli Free Vanunu Campaign.

These draconian restrictions have been imposed under the emergency regulations passed by the British mandate of 1945.

1. Vanunu will have to register to live in an Israeli city of his choice.
2. He will have to give notice to the authorities if he wishes to travel to another city.
3. He will not be allowed to leave Israel for 6 months. This restriction will be reviewed at the end of 6 months and could be renewed.
4. He will not be allowed to contact foreigners either by phone or in person.
5. It is unclear whether his American adoptive parents, who have been allowed to visit him while in custody, will be allowed to speak to him when free.
6. He will not be allowed to go within 100 meters of any embassy, visit any port of entry, come within 300 meters of any international boundary and he may not be allowed to worship in a church of his choice.

Harsh Restrictions to be Imposed on Vanunu After His Release Next Week

Vanunu's Relatives Enraged: We Won't be Able to Meet Him

The prisoner told his brother yesterday, that he won't be allowed to meet foreign nationals, go near air or sea ports and foreign embassies, possess a cellular phone or surf the internet. His adoptive parents: This is an absurd decision. Vanunu will appeal to the High Court of Justice against the restrictions immediately after his release.

By Tsadok Yechezkeli and Anat Tal-Shir
Yediot Ahronot, 150404

"I can't believe what they've decided to do to my life after I've spent 18 years in prison," Mordechai Vanunu told his brother yesterday, during their last meeting in Ashkelon Prison before his release next Wednesday. "Up to the last minute I still thought that they would let me go away from here."

Vanunu was referring to the document that he had received shortly earlier from security agents, which contained a full description of the restrictions that will be imposed on him during the first months of his life as a "free" person, mainly, a prohibition on leaving the country and an absolute prohibition on meeting with foreign nationals.

Vanunu told his brother yesterday, that he will be prohibited from leaving the country for a period of 12 months (after which the prohibition will be reconsidered), from meeting with foreign nationals and media persons from abroad. In addition, he will be prohibited from going near air and sea ports and foreign embassies, from possessing a cellular phone and from surfing theinternet. Vanunu will even have to inform the police 24 hours in advance if he decides to go from one city to another.

The sense of shock that Vanunu gave out yesterday also reflected the harsh atmosphere among his relatives and his many supporters, some of whom have already arrived in Israel to welcome him at the moment of his release after 18 years, of which he spent 11 years in solitary confinement. The list of restrictions - and mainly the absolute prohibition on meeting with foreign nationals - was received with amazement and rage, since it effectively erases from Vanunu's life all contact with his many supporters around the world, some of whom are the people closest to him.

"This is a destructive decision for Mordechai," Vanunu's adoptive mother, Mary Eoloff, said yesterday with undisguised anger. She and her husband Nicholas arrived from the U.S. yesterday. The couple, who adopted Vanunu several years ago, dreamed of leaving the country together with him and thereby realizing his dream of emigrating to the U.S. and opening a new chapter in his life. Yesterday they found it hard to digest the news, that Vanunu would not be able to leave the country and would even be forced to accept life under harsh restrictions.

"The terrible thing is, that the State is denying basic human rights to a person who has already completed his sentence," Mary Eoloff stated angrily in an interview with Yediot Ahronot. "They are assuming in advance, that he will use his freedom of speech to speak out against Israel. He has the right of expression just like any citizen, and that cannot be taken away from him." Eoloff, who lives with her husband in Minnesota, called the prohibition on meeting with foreign nationals that was imposed on Vanunu "absurd". "We are his legal parents and we intend to see him. Tomorrow (Thursday) we are going to meet him in prison. So is it conceivable, that we will be forbidden to be with him when he is freed? It is possible, that we are not included in that prohibition, but we don't know anything any more."

The prohibition on meeting with foreign nationals has put pressure on Vanunu's many supporters. A delegation of about 80 of his supporters, including British Members of Parliament, Nobel Peace Price Laureates and cinema stars, will be landing in Israel over the next few days. Many of them have kept in touch with Vanunu by means of letters. Now they fear, that if they meet with him, they will cause him to violate the restrictions, thereby giving the security forces a pretext to re-arrest him.

"This is a terrible scandal," said Peter Hounam, the Sunday Times reporter who exposed the Vanunu affair and who arrived in Israel to meet him after 18 years. "We don't want to cause him any problems. If I reach the conclusion that I am putting him at risk - I'll give up on the meeting. But this is an outrage. Imagine, I won't even be able to shake the man's hand."

Vanunu has been given the right to appeal against the restrictions by next Sunday, and he intends to do so. He has empowered the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to petition the High Court of Justice against the restrictions on his behalf, and the petition will be made to the Court immediately after his release next week.

translated by Rayna Moss

To: London Supporters
April 2004

Dear Friend,

The Vigil and Delegation

As many from the Campaign go to Israel to greet Mordechai and celebrate his freedom, the few people left at the Office will be hard-pressed to respond individually to all enquiries and to events as they unfold. Here are the plans.

VIGILS

We will gather at noon on 17 April on Kensington High Street, as we have for over a decade, to bear witness to the injustice of Mordechai's punishment and to inform the public, as usual, of the ideals for which he stands. His message of peace and defiance has not dimmed over the 18 years.

On 24 April, the last vigil is planned to celebrate Mordechai's freedom and to stand in solidarity with him in his demand for a future of freedom to speak and to travel with his message of hope for a future free of nuclear weapons. Why not come in fancy dress, and bring food, drink and music or noise-makers - including children! Other groups throughout the country are planning events for 21, 22 and 24 April. Please see our website for updates, events and further details.

If, by 24 April, Mordechai is not free, for any reason - including re-arrest after his release - the vigil will continue as a protest and a call for action.

At present, we expect the release to go ahead on 21 April, and although we believe Mordechai will be able to meet his supporters with no immediate restrictions on his movements within Israel. We also expect surveillance on him will be heavy and probably oppressive, and that provocation and re-arrest, once he exercises his freedom of speech, are possibilities.

[ … ] Should the Israeli government, for whatever reasons, continue the imprisonment, including house arrest, [ … ] a response will be made here in London on 22 April. For more information on this possibility

send your contact details to the Office

marked "for the attention of Dan Martin".

An international delegation is going to Israel for Mordechai's release from prison on April 21st. As of April 1st, over 80 people from 11 countries, including British MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Colin Breed, are booked to go. Countries include America, UK, Australia, Japan, Italy, Holland, Norway, Hungary, Germany and Poland. Many more Israeli supporters will join us.

Supporters have once again been very generous with their donations to help cover the cost of the delegation including sponsoring delegates, and so far the costs have been met. However, if you would like to add your contribution to this appeal there is still the time, and the need, especially to help with this mailing!

Thank you sincerely for all your support for Mordechai over these long and difficult years,

Ernest Rodker

September 30TH 2003 - Vigil Reports

FROM LONDON:

Our vigil started slowly at 12.00 noon, on September 30th. However, by this time we have taken over the area of the vigil with 4 banners; a whole range of placards; a cell with a chained Vanunu figure standing inside and a fair number of leaflets. A new banner, 2.3 X 1.5 metres, especially made for the day, declared, Countdown to Freedom. Mordechai Vanunu set for release, April 21st 2004. 205 days till Freedom from Ashkelon Prison. Join us there. (The day numbers will be reduced each week at the regular Saturday vigil).

By 12.30pm the numbers had grown to about 30 people, and between 30 and 40 people were present for the rest of the afternoon till 3pm.

During that time there was a continuous presentation of music, statements and readings from supporters. One or two elderly supporters had traveled long distance to get to the vigil to read their poems for Mordechai.

All the contributions were recorded and this recording, with two specially made cards full of moving messages of support and good will, will be sent to Mordechai, including a signed copy of Professor Joseph Rotblat's new book, War No More.

As yet we have heard no news of the Youth & Student CND vigil that was planned for the same evening.

11th September, 2003

Dear Friend and Vanunu Supporter,

It does look as if we may be nearing the end of Mordechai's long ordeal and with it our lengthy campaign in support of him and all he has stood for.

We can't be sure of anything in relation to his situation or the Israeli attitude towards him, but we do now have a release date for Mordechai, and as we relate in the newsletter, which you will possibly have seen by now, we are making our plans based on April 22nd (a further complication is that Mordechai writes that he has been told April 21st, for his release, so this difference will have to be resolved as soon as possible).

In the newsletter you will see that we again, draw attention to September 30th, the anniversary of Mordechai's kidnapping 17 years ago. As we have done for the last few years we are helping to organize many of these annual vigils around the world outside Israeli consulates and embassies, to mark this illegal and brutal act. Already we have received positive responses from new and established groups that they want to do something around the 30th.

This year the last day of September falls on a Tuesday and we are asking you to try your utmost to come and support the vigil on this day, particularly because it may be the last September 30th vigil and it would be encouraging for it to be as well attended as possible. The vigil will take place between 12 noon and 3pm at the usual place, in Kensington Court, W8, close to the Israeli Embassy. We are hoping to make it a celebration of Mordechai's courage and triumph over adversity: his steadfast refusal to apologise for telling the truth, and his determination not to retract his statements that all nuclear weapons are wrong despite constant pressure to do so from the Israeli authorities.

To this end we should like the afternoon to be a tribute to Dr. Vanunu with readings, poetry, statements, music and song. We are looking for a wide range of participation from all supporters, including our 'names', who we are also asking to make contributions.

Other than this date, there is the benefit on November 15th to look forward to; and the regular Saturday vigil goes on and on. Please continue your good work of keeping MPs, MEPs and the Israeli Embassy under pressure and writing to the pres and to Mordechai; as well as raising money whenever you can for our various activities and Mordechai's future.

We look forward to seeing you on the 30th.

Best wishes,

Ernest Rodker
The Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu and for a Nuclear Free Middle East

'Human rights and Mordechai Vanunu'

On 22 February, at the Liberal Synagogue in John's Wood Road, London, a panel of speakers dicussed the topic 'Human rights and Mordechai Vanunu'. The Speakers included Susannah York, Helen Bamber and Peter Hounam. Below is the contribution from Helen Bamber, Founder of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.

Mordechai Vannunu

I have spent my life confronting human cruelty. It started for me when, as a child I listened to the stories of violence and loss told in my household by refugees who my father had helped to leave Nazi Germany. It hardened my resolve when I went with the Jewish Relief Unit to work in Bergen Belsen shortly after its liberation.

My preocupation with the catastropnic effects of persecution and torture accompanied me in my work with the Medical Group of Amnesty International and led me finally to establish the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and other forms of organised violence at the end of 1985.

Throughout the developmental years of the Medical Foundation in which over 30,000 people from over 91 countries in the world sought our help, I was conscious of one man whose punishment seemed to me to be so cruel, so fuelled by revenge as to contain nothing of humanity.

Solitary confinement has been referred to by those who have survived it as a form of torture. Torture has been described as a means of killing a man without his dying. And indeed, if we look at the years of solitary confinement and beyond we can only view Mordechai's punishment as a means of killing him without his dying.

Whatever we feel about the justification or not for such a form of punishment, there can be no excuse for extending it by one means or another. The man must, by now, be psychologically damaged. It is clear that what sustains his sanity is his one hope of leaving Israel, when freed, and joining his adopted family in the United States.

What possible danger can he be to Israel, a country supported by the most powerful country in the world, eighteen years on? What can he say that the world does not already know?

The Campaign to Free Vannuni must not fail now. It needs financial support and the voices and presence of those who care sufficiently to support a cause, which most people have forgotten.

It was my Jewish background growing up in the thirties witnessing the fate the Jewish people, which many did not care about, which taught me to respect humanity and to fight cruelty. I never dreamt that one day I would be confronting my own people in terms of their inhumanity. But I am doing so and I would ask everyone here, whoever you are, to ask for an end to this cruelty, a humane and even still, a dignified end.

22 February 2004
Helen Bamber

BBC Correspondent Programme

A hard-hitting BBC documentary screened in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq brought the largest postbag and email bag the programme had ever had, by telling and showing the story of Mordechai, the Eoloffs, and the continuing danger posed by biological and nuclear installations in Israel. The energetic and eloquent Nick and Mary Eoloff as always gave the human dimension of the story; describing the cruel years of solitary confinement: "He was buried alive...How can a country treat a human being that way?"

Peter Hounam, the Sunday Times reporter who first broke Vanunu's story, outlined Mordechai's work in the plutonium separation plant at Dimona in the 70s and 80s, which for years Israel called a textile factory. We then saw security camera shots of Mossad agents in Wapping, looking for Mordechai in 1986. The programme was blunt: it said the kidnap was an illegal act on foreign soil.

Mordechai's lawyer, Avigdor Feldman, explained the snatch and long, hard sentence simply, "He broke the taboos of a very closed society; more like a tribe."

Topically, a map was shown with the location of Israel's nuclear reprocessing facilities, its three nuclear submarines, and the biological and chemical weapons location at Nes Ziona in northern Israel. Uzi Even, a nuclear scientist who worked on the weapons from 1962-68, explained the rationale behind their development: they saw these weapons, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a "final insurance policy." The U.S. feared the rogue developments at the time, however, and an inspection team sent from the U.S. to Dimona. As we know, they were tricked when they inspected in May 1961, as all entrances to the lower floors at Dimona were bricked up. Peres's justification for tricking the U.S. inspectors? "I don't have to answer your questions. You are having a dialogue with yourself."

Increasing Dangers

The professor pointed out that accidents become more likely with a reactor as old as Dimona, and workers' safety and environmental safety are not monitored, even though thousands of people work there. Evidence has "seeped out," according to the programme, of accidents and deceit. Workers secretly removed contaminated waste from the ground, according to a recent documentary shown in Israel, and replaced it with clean earth and trees - to show there was no contaminated waste. There have been fires, spills, and explosions of toxic gas. Ex-workers who are ill, including a hundred or more with cancer, make no progress with claims for compensation because the authorities deny they worked with nuclear material. Victims are warned off. "You will end up like Vanunu," they are told.

Poison Gas

The most striking footage in the film was of a Palestinian youth with convulsions after exposure to what the Israelis claim was just tear gas deployed in Gaza in February 2001. There were 180 patients at that time with severe convulsions. A Palestinian doctor, Mohammed Salama, remembered his helplessness as there was no way of knowing what antidote or treatment could be used - it was not tear gas. "We are an occupied area, and it is impossible to send samples to international labs to test it." Israel refuses to say what the new gas was, and, of course, is required to do so by no chemical or biological treaties, because of its unique exemption.

Courage

The "small group" of Israeli activists who have worked with us over the years got some airtime. They expressed their frustration, understandable as all of their and our efforts to secure Mordechai's release have failed to free him, although the publicity for his stand reaches around the world. "Vanunu would have had a Nobel Peace prize if he was a Korean, or Iranian or Pakistani technician. He would have been the second Sakharov," said one. "He is a non-person." "I am afraid we are dealing with the most privileged nation on earth; we started the nuclear arms race in the Middle East, no doubt about it," said another. Rayna Moss pointed out, "Dimona workers have Vanunu as a deterrent. They hear, 'If you speak out, you will be cut off from everyone and everything...You will be Vanunu-ized, a person without a number and without a name."

Yehiel Horev

For the first time, we saw a full-face photo of the shadowy security minister, the one blocking Mordechai's release, using bald assertions that he still has important secrets. In the last parole hearing, his prosecutor added the war with Iraq as a new reason for refusing parole. As predicted by Mordechai's lawyer, the court, in secret, heard "secrets about secrets - I will hear only secrets about secrets about secrets. The court will get something a bit more concrete, but no one will hear the actual secrets, if indeed they exist." Horev, chillingly, has let it be known that he does not intend to let Mordechai ever leave Israel.

The Land of the Free

The Correspondent team led by Oleinka Frenkel, was met with a blank refusal by the Bush administration to allow an interview about Israel, but did agree to talk about the balance of power in the Middle East, so long as questions were submitted in advance. Douglas Feith of the Pentagon then cancelled the interview, stating that only questions towards the Iraqi situation could be accepted. The president's voice then came on, ringingly declaring, "The greatest danger to the world is nuclear, chemical and biological weapons."

The film was screened at the Human Rights Film Festival in London; then on British TV in April, and finally, on the World Programme in June. The last showing prompted an angry response from the Israeli government, accusing the BBC of having anti-Israeli policies bordering on anti-Semitism. They have withdrawn co-operation from the BBC in retaliation. They have not denied the truth of any of the material in the programme.

If you would like details of how to obtain the BBC documentary please :

Telephone/Fax us on +44 (0) 20 8808 7568,

email us,

or write to us at:

Vanunu DOCUMENTARY
Campaign to Free Vanunu and for a Nuclear Free Middle East
146 Arnold Road,
London N15 4JH
United Kingdom

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