User:Eileenfleming

In 2005 I met Mordechai Vanunu while I was in east Jerusalem researching for my first historical fiction. We began a series of interviews beginning with his childhood, crisis of faith, kidnapping and in January 2006 when his historic freedom of speech trial began [because he spoke to foreign media such as Amy Goodman whose 2004 interview with Vanunu was major testimony against him] I documented the trial which culminated in Vanunu's return to 78 days in solitary confinemnt in 2010. That trial had NOTHING to do with his then girl friend Kristin Joachimsen as your page currently states.

I became a reporter in 2005 because Vanunu told me:

"The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there, almost twenty years ago. Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors underground. In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.

"Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’ Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.

"When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.”

This book details Vanunu's freedom of speech trial and includes stories he shared about his childhood, crisis of faith, etc: https://www.amazon.com/BEYOND-NUCLEAR-Mordechai-Vanunus-Muckracker-ebook/dp/B0047T7IXW/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Please check out UNCENSORED "30 Minutes with Vanunu" taped a few weeks after Vanunu's freedom of speech trial began on in January 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwdz6dLbfok

Please know Vanunu returns to Supreme Court on 20 March 2017 for the delayed ruling on his latest appeal seeking to end all restrictions that have essentially kept him captive since he emerged from 18 yrs.behind bars in 2004.