Human Rights Activist Close to Getting U.S. Comment on Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu
January 20, 2011 posted by Veterans TodayWhen President Obama took office, Eillen Fleming began phoning, faxing and e-mailing him and Secretary of State Clinton seeking a statement regarding the fact that Israel continues to deny the Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu, the right to leave the state ever since he emerged from a tomb-sized, windowless cell on 21 April 2004; after 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth—providing the photographic proof that Israel had manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads by 1986, in the Dimona’s seven-story underground nuclear facility.
By Eillen Fleming in We Are Wide Awake- author of BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu’s FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker
For the last two years, I have been requesting a statement from this Administration vis-à-vis the fact that Israel’s very statehood was established contingent upon their upholding the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a co-signer of the Declaration of Human Rights, America is responsible for holding all Member States accountable when they fail to honor it. I have relentlessly reminded my government that Article 13-2 guarantees “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”
Both Mr. Edgar Vasques, State Department Media Affairs Officer and Ms. Nicole Thompson, Press Relations Officer for Clinton, have been gracious to me and Ms. Thompson even raised my hopes when she told me, “it is not impossible to receive an answer from the Secretary of State.”
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