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[violachic]

Mordechai convicted, sentencing on May 18th



This is very sobering news. Not shocking, but we always hoped it would be different.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Convicted of talking. Yay democracy.

Poor Mordechai.

[marieoroumania.livejournal.com]

Israel does not take the crime of... umm.... speaking, lightly.

Poor Mordechai. I just get more and more disgusted with Israel by the day.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

That's fucked up.

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

A good man will go back to prison for trying to maintain peace.

I wish we could all follow his example.

[sabacthani.livejournal.com]

Except for the subject of the injustice (who has personal relevance for me, although I've never met him) and the fact of the injustice (which always sucks) this is actually a really cool article--I was expecting something along the lines of, "Suspected Terrorist Mordechai Vanunu found guilty of betray Jewish homeland!" The BBC article was actually quite critical of Israel, which is pretty rare in the Western press, it seems.

The preferred term (in American papers as well) seem to be "Nuclear Whistleblower" which is encouraging, no? The Washington Post has only one quote, which is Vanunu saying "additional proof that there is no democracy in Israel".

I guess I was expecting a lot more like "Proud Zionist Lady", who wrote a comment in the Jerusalem Post comparing him to the Rosenbergs... a) as if Vanunu had been giving out information about how to construct a weapon, and not merely information about who had already constructed one, and b) as if the execution of the Rosenbergs wasn't already one of the more shameful things we've done as a country.

Er. Anyway, the international press seems willing to take his side. Also, he looks damn goods in those "v-for-victory-or-I-guess-peace-really" poses.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Have to say, the man is hot....

And yes, I agree that this is a really well-written article. He does seem to be taken seriously by the western press more and more, which is promising. It might also be one of the reasons the Israeli courts are coming down hard on him. Dude, I should just marry him and then fight to get him to the states. At least it would get him out of Israel.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

damn. That just pisses me off.

[whereisjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm incredibly upset about this, and getting more upset all the time. I'm going to try to write an op-ed - which we can probably at least get published in some of the indy papers around here - but I feel like that's doing so little. Shit. This man deserves better.

[unhipster.livejournal.com]

That's awful.

[franciscan.livejournal.com]

Truly a courageous human being....

[piddyx.livejournal.com]

Not fair.