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Vanunu May Not Leave Israel, Supreme Court Says
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled today that nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu would remain under security restrictions forbidding him to leave the country or speak with foreign reporters (see GSN, May 28). Vanunu appeared to immediately violate the ruling by speaking to both Israeli and foreign journalists. “We are saying always that Israel is not a real democracy, and today we are seeing it inside the Supreme Court,” Vanunu told the reporters. “We will find a way to continue to survive and demand the rights to live as best we can,” he added. The state is investigating Vanunu for previous interviews he gave to foreign media following his release from prison in April and other potential violations of the rules, said Shai Nitzan, an attorney at the state prosecutor’s office (Laurie Copans, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, July 26). Vanunu warned in an interview published Sunday that the Middle East is at risk for a “second Chernobyl” from Israel’s 40-year-old Dimona nuclear power plant, Agence France-Presse reported. An accident at the facility in the southern Negev desert could pose a threat to the region through “leaking of nuclear radiation, threatening millions of people in neighboring countries,” Vanunu said (Agence France-Presse/Khaleej Times, July 25). Vanunu also said the Israeli government was behind the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, according to the Press Trust of India. In an interview published in the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper’s Arabic supplement yesterday, Vanunu said Kennedy was assassinated in retaliation for “pressure he exerted on then head of government, David Ben-Gurion, to shed light on Dimona’s nuclear reactor” (Press Trust of India/Hindustan Times, July 26).
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