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Posted on November 24, 2014September 24, 2018 By Eileen Fleming 3 Comments on Jon Stewart’s next movie: Vanunu Israel’s Snowden and Photographer WMD Facility?
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Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic and the cure for that is journalism and expression Jon Stewart has reiterated regarding why he produced “Rosewater” which is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari, which recounts Bahari’s 2009 imprisonment by Iran, after an interview with Jason Jones for The Daily Show, who Iranian authorities believed was an American spy.

 

Because of the events of 11 September 2001, a Media who were not asking my questions and government policies I dissented from, I began searching for answers and in the summer of 2005, made my first of eight trips to Israel Palestine.

Because if I can’t laugh it’s not my revolution, among my muses during my first 16 Days in Israel Palestine were Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell which began when Jon turned “our attention to religion” and Stephen raised “the God machine” as in this clip “brought to you by the Jehovah’s Witnesses” addressing gluten free communion wafers, evangelical Christian attorneys, Jews for Jesus and ends with a number on Stephen’s chakras.

 

Carell_Stewart_Colbert When Daily Show Correspondents Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell debated Islam vs Christianity in this “Even Stevphen” segment,

I had not yet learned the story of Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu who said:

“Snowden is the best example of what I did 27 years ago – when the government breaks the law and tramples on human rights, people talk. That’s what he did, he speaks for everyone, and that’s what I did – I spoke for everyone.”– 25 December 2013 

 

During my 2005 interviews with Vanunu, who had been released from 18 years behind bars to open air captivity the year prior, he asked me if I had ever seen the “DOROTHY Day” movie, “The Man who Knew Too Much” because the beginning scenes were shot where he grew up in Marrakesh, Morocco.

 

Vanunu meant to say Doris Day, but in that moment I realized my childhood dream to be a Brenda Starr [a comic book muckraker] had matured, for Vanunu’s slip of the tongue was the catalyst for me to begin to imagine following in the footsteps of Dorothy Day, the 20th century socialist muckraking agitator who became a Christian and a voice for the voiceless in her newspaper “The Catholic Worker” which persists today.

Within three weeks after my first trip to both sides of The Wall, I established WeAreWideAwake.org which has so far attracted over 14,000,000 visitors – the vast majority being USA and Israeli ‘cyber drones’.

I saw Vanunu last while I was in Jerusalem in November 2013.

bookcover3 During that trip, I hand delivered some messages from his supporters at TNT/TellingNuclearTruths and a copy of the five page screen adaptation for Beyond Nuclear: Mordechai Vanunuʼs Freedom of Speech Trial and My Life as a Muckraker from which I excerpt:

Vanunu was born into an Orthodox Jewish home in Marrakech, Morocco in October 1954.

Our movie begins in a darkened movie theater and Doris Day is singing, “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera).”

The lights come up and our camera is focused on the eyes of a boy about 9 years old. We follow him into the streets of Marrakesh –and into the very same scene where “THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH” began.

We follow Vanunu home and after ritual prayers the father tells the family they are moving to the “land of milk and honey.”

Vanunu is soon uprooted from his comfortable home and after a harrowing journey the family learns they have been banished to the ethnically cleansed Palestinian village of Beersheba-one of over 500 Israel has ‘wiped off the map’ since becoming a state in 1948.

Vanunu suffers his first crisis of faith and alienation from God and society shortly thereafter. At the same time, America mourns the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Eileen and Vanunu meet ‘by chance’ on the first evening of summer in 2005, after Eileen’s harrowing day in Hebron. A nurse by education, she is in the midst of writing her first book based on the memories of a 1948, Palestinian Muslim refugee from the Upper Galilee and her spiritual journey.

Vanunu is on his way out to a meeting as Eileen enters the courtyard at St. Georges Cathedral. Eileen has an experience of the presence of God…

 

Eileen first learns of Vanunu in 2004, while researching for her first book, KEEP HOPE ALIVE and writes him into it.

As her research continues her outrage increases over American policies that collude in support of Israel’s nuclear arsenal and military occupation of Palestine….

In January 2006, Vanunu’s FREEDOM of SPEECH TRIAL begins when the Jerusalem Magistrates Court charges Vanunu with 22 different violations, accusing him of breaking the law by communicating with foreigners shimonperesletter[meaning press] and trying to flee Israel when he took a cab to Bethlehem to attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of the Nativity in 2004.

In June 2009, Eileen visits with Vanunu and when they say goodbye he tells her that he will not email her and she tells him, she will continue to email him because she wants SECURITY to know they cannot control the free flow of info or prevent anyone from following their conscience.

Eileen persists to report on the Internet that Israel refuses to allow Vanunu his right to full freedom because SECURITY has a vendetta against him and corporate media colludes in the injustice by their silence.

In November 2009, Vanunu suffers another crisis of faith and returns to atheism.

His freedom of speech trial concludes with a conviction on 19 charges and he is sentenced to 6 months in prison, which was eventually reduced to seventy-eight days in a high security prison in total solitary confinement during May to August in 2010.

When Vanunu is released from prison, he immediately reactivates his social media accounts, and posts a video message on Youtube:

Eileen posts the first comment:

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. -Article 19. UN Universal Declaration HUMAN RIGHTS which Israel’s statehood was contingent upon upholding! No shame on e, WeAreWideAwake: THE VANUNU SAGA 2005-2010!”

Vanunu readily replied: “No shame on Eileen, because Eileen is the best of using all her freedom of speech to the limits of using as a strong power to Bring my freedom.”     bibiletter2011

 

In April 1999, thirty-six members of the US House of Representatives signed a letter calling for Mordechai Vanunu’s release from prison because they believed “we have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who dare to articulate a brighter vision for humanity.”

President Clinton responded with a public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the need for Israel and other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to adhere to it and accept IAEA safeguards. No American politician has uttered a word on topic since.

Vanunu continues to wait in Jerusalem for his right to leave Israel…

 

Vanunu told me that when I got a movie offer for Beyond Nuclear: Mordechai Vanunu’s FREEDOM of Speech Trial and My Life as a Muckraker 2005-2010 to let him know.

Vanunu in the courtyard of St. Stephens Church, because when we crossed paths in 2007 in front of the east Jerusalem church, Vanunu quipped, “This is the very spot where the first Christian was martyred for freedom of speech.” Photo Copyright Meir Vanunu
Vanunu in the courtyard of St. Stephens Church, because when we crossed paths in 2007 in front of the east Jerusalem church, Vanunu quipped, “This is the very spot where the first Christian was martyred for freedom of speech.” Photo Copyright Meir Vanunu

 I imagine if Jon or either Stevphen contacted Vanunu through his website or YouTube Channel Vanunu just might be ready to make his own deal.

 

 Learn More:

Vanunu’s 1985 PHOTOS OF DIMONA

FREE EBook, The Vanunu Legend Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom

 

Acknowledgment of correspondence enshrined in "The Vanunu Legend: Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom" https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/479363
Acknowledgment of correspondence enshrined in “The Vanunu Legend: Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom”
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/479363

 

In 2005, Eileen Fleming established WeAreWideAwake.org in response to her first of 8 trips to both sides of The Wall as a public service.

 

In 2012, Eileen Fleming ran for US HOUSE of Representatives

 

Eileen is the Administrator for FREE VANUNU and TNT/Telling Nuclear Truths

 

Follow her at TWITTER, read her sixth book as she lives it HERE.

 

Her fifth book, The Vanunu Legend Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom was published 24 September 2014, as a FREE EBook.

 

 

 

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Comments (3) on “Jon Stewart’s next movie: Vanunu Israel’s Snowden and Photographer WMD Facility?”

  1. Nel says:
    November 24, 2014 at 11:25 am

    It is a crime that the USA commercial media continue to deprive the American Public of the knowledge that the State of Israel has many atomic bombs ready to go. No national or international political discourse is valid if one excludes that atomic factor.

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    1. Eileen Fleming says:
      November 25, 2014 at 8:29 am

      “You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946

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