[E-rundbrief] Info 318 - Vanunu arrested, Israels wall

So Nov 27 18:49:28 CET 2005

E-Rundbrief - Info 318: Mordechai Vanunu berichtet über seine zeitweilig 
Verhaftung bei Jerusalem; Gush Shalom: Appell an israelischen 
Innenminister, die repressiven Maßnahmen gegen Vanunu zu beenden; 
East-Jerusalem houses razed to the ground - Daewoo demolisher photographed; 
Human Rights Observer to be Deported from Hebron (The Other Israel - 
TOI-Billbord).

Bad Ischl, 27.11.2005

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Mordechai Vanunu Reports

Hi
Here is my report.

Nov' 18' Arrest.

Last Friday again the Israel authorities used their power to arrest me, but 
this time they put me back in prison for 2 days, causing me to remember all 
the cruelty and hard life of 18 years in isolation.

The reason this time was because I came very close to the check point near 
the wall in Aram, a small Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem where 
they have not yet decided where the apartheid wall is going to continue.

I took a bus from the bus station in east Jerusalem and traveled to the 
Aram village without being checked, but when the bus returned to Jerusalem, 
they inspected it at the Aram checkpoint.

At the checkpoint, they took my ID card and the soldiers received orders to 
arrest me.  They confiscated my camera and my mobile, and took me to the 
nearest police station, where I waited for the special police unit to come 
from Tel Aviv and take me to there to be questioned.

Meanwhile, the police themselves invited the Israel media TV to come and 
let them take as many photos as they wanted and to report my arrest in 
their main news, as a man who is going to the occupied territories where 
the "enemies" are "fighting" them. They did this because they want the 
Israeli public to regard me as being equal to a terrorist.

I said to the media "they arrested me when I went to see the Aram 
checkpoint, to see the Apartheid wall, the Palestinian ghettos."

In Tel Aviv they questioned me about why I was "Entering" the Palestinian 
occupied territories. They wanted to know what I was doing there and why I 
was not following the general Army's orders. I said Aram is still part of 
Palestine east Jerusalem, I am not interested in seeing the occupied 
territories; I just want to see the apartheid wall, to see this village, 
and it is not yet clear where the borders of Jerusalem are.   They wanted 
to know with whom I was traveling, their names, why I was with foreigners, 
and they wanted to see my camera photos.  The police decided to arrest me 
because they wanted to release me under court orders.  However, there is no 
court on the Jewish Sabbath day, so they had to wait until Saturday 
night.   They imprisoned me in Tel Aviv, in a cell without anything but a 
mattress and a blanket.

Saturday morning my lawyers Feldman and Sfard, came to see me, to hear what 
happened, and to represent me in court.   In the evening the police took me 
back to the court, and the woman judge heard my case at 20:30. Feldman did 
not agree to the police terms of my release. They wanted 2 weeks of house 
arrest and 50.000 shekels. Feldman convinced the judge and even the police 
that this arrest was a big mistake, because I did not violate the terms of 
my release, since it is not yet clear where Israel wants to put its 
apartheid wall.   But, before the judge made her decision, the police 
capitulated and agreed for immediate release without any conditions, just 
my signature.  This was a small victory for Feldman in defending me, and my 
friend Gideon took me back to Jerusalem, St George, where we had a glass of 
beer.

But the police and the Israeli spies couldn't go without something.  They 
demanded that I give them my camera and my mobile so they could check them. 
Now I don't have my mobile and no phone connection until receiving them back.

So that was another incident of harassment in this new series of cruelty 
since my release.   They will not give up and let me go -- leave Israel. If 
they could put me back in prison they would.

My conclusion: the world continues to ignore my situation and is not doing 
anything to help me gain my freedom in the same way it did during the 18 
years of my imprisonment.   Nobody will intervene to demand my release. The 
world stands by and allows Israel to do as it pleases.  The world will let 
them commit more crimes such as kidnapping, injustice, and cruelty.

For more informations see Mordechai Vanunu's homepage: www.serve.com/vanunu/.

Die Friedensbewegung "Gush Shalom" fordert nun vom Innenminister Pines Paz, 
dessen Labor Party demnächst die Regierung verlässt, dass er als "gute Tat 
zum Abschied" die vielfachen administrativen Strafmaßnahmen gegen Mordechai 
Vanunu aufhebt.

E-mail-Adresse des Ministers: Minister of the Interior, Pines Paz, 
sar at moin.gov.il bzw. pniot at moin.gov.il.

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East-Jerusalem houses razed to the ground --  Daewoo demolisher photographed-

On the same day that Sharon declared his new party  - the Jerusalem 
municipality embarked upon a mass demolition of Palestinian homes. Read the 
sad report by ICAHD activists who were at the site and made pictures.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=9914

With it being clearly visible that the destruction was perpetrated with a 
Daewoo
machine Gush Shalom wrote a letter to the Daewoo company:
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Letter_to_Daewoo.htm

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Human Rights Observer to be Deported from Hebron

Nov. 24, 2005
A Human Rights Observer (HRO) from the UK was arrested in Tel Rumeida, 
Hebron earlier today. He had just finished escorting Palestinian children 
to school and was walking home on Shuhaddah street when he was stopped by 
an armed Border Police unit in a targeted arrest.
read more
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=9974

A Hebrew Gush Shalom press release of that same day ended with:
   It's a shame that Jewish settlers attack and frighten Palestinian 
children on the way to and from school
   It's a shame that the army allows settlers to do so.
   It's a shame that there are needed foreign observers to accompany the 
Palestinian children
   But the biggest shame of all: after our settlers' misbehavior and the 
authorities unwillingness to prevent them - to deport the foreigner who 
does what should not have been needed, and to let the settlers stay in Hebron.

At the time of writing the human right's activist is still detained.

In this context should be read following news item of today, Saturday Nov. 26:

Settlers throw stones at Palestinian homes in Hebron
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/650141.html

From: The Other Israel - TOI-Billbord, Nov. 26, 2005

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