Skip to content
  • Image
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Podcasts
  • Email
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Opinion
  • News
  • Features
  • Comment
  • Store
The Arab Daily News

The Arab Daily News

Original news, features, opinions from Chicago to Jerusalem

  • About
    • About
    • Our Writers
    • Subscribe to Ray’s Columns
    • Book Store
    • Contact
    • Submit Book Reviews, Press Releases
    • Advertise
    • Privacy Corrections Policy
    • Profile on Ray Hanania
    • Submit Press Release
  • Features
    • Food
    • Book Review
    • Humor
    • Movies
    • Travel
  • Arab Stores Targeted
  • Arab Community Network Page
    • Arab Community Network Page
    • Arab Heritage America resources
    • Directory
      • Groups & Organizations
      • Mosques, Churches
      • Restaurants
      • 2008 & 2014 Arab Media Directories
    • National Arab Heritage Month
    • Video: Chicago Arab History
    • Video: Photo Array of Chicago Arabs
    • Overview of Arabs in America
    • Hanania standup comedy
    • Arabs on the Titanic
    • Obituaries
  • Podcasts
    • Arab News Ray Hanania Radio
    • Ray Hanania on Politics Podcast
    • Podcast Info
    • Hanania Podcast intro
    • Live Arab Radio
  • Your Views
  • Hanania on Tiktok
  • Toggle search form
  • Arab Democratic Club Feb 12, 2023 Forum & Brunch flier
    Arab Democrats host forum for Chicago and suburban candidates Feb. 12 American Arabs
  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced Dr. Manal Fakhoury has been elected to the position of Chair of the National Board of Directors, and that attorneys Spojmie Nasiri of California and John Floyd of Texas have joined the organization’s National Board.
    CAIR Announces Dr. Manal Fakhoury as New Board Chair, New Board Members Spojmie Nasiri and John Floyd American Arabs
  • AHRC Executive Director Imad Hamad
    AHRC: Honor Dr. King Day with Civility, Unity, and Action American Arabs
  • Citgo Gas Station and Quik Mart at 3759 W. Chicago Ave in Chicago ordered closed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot because a street gang member with an AK-47 killed someone in front of the store. Only Arab and Muslim stores are being closed by the Mayor
    When Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot targeted Arab businesses in 2021 and 2022 Activism
  • Hussam al-Mayman, The Mayman Show, podcast Arab News
    Arab News launches third season of The Mayman Show podcast Arab News
  • State Rep. Cyril Nichols interviewed on live Arab American radio in Detroit with host Ray Hanania Friday Dec. 9, 2022
    Nichols discusses need to improve Arab-Black relations in Chicagoland American Arabs
  • Voting sticker issued to voters in Cook County elections in 2016. Photo courtesy of Ray Hanania
    Gov. Pritzker Announces Six Appointments to Boards and Commissions — no Arabs included American Arabs
  • Closure notice posted on the doors and windows of Arab American businesses during Mayor Lori Lightfoot's closure of Arab owned stores in June - Sept. 2021. Photo courtesy of Ray Hanania
    Pritzker again ignores needs of Arab businesses in latest appointments Activism
  • Arab American Democratic Club (AADC) official candidate endorsements for the November 8, 2022 General elections.
    Arab American Democratic Club issues endorsements for Nov. 8, 2022 Cook County Illinois elections Activism
  • Arab Democrats urge NO VOTE on Gov. J.B. Pritzker re-election bid Activism
  • Assyrian American GOP issues endorsements in Nov, 8, 2022 elections
    Assyrian American GOP group endorses candidates in Illinois Activism
  • Abdullah Hammoud, elected Mayor of Dearborn Nov. 2, 2021. Photo courtesy of Abdullah Hammoud Facebook Page
    AHRC’s 2022 Spirit of Humanity Gala a Great Success American Arabs
  • Interlink 2022 Cookbooks Make the Best Holiday Gifts
    Interlink 2022 Cookbooks Make the Best Holiday Gifts Arab World
  • Rep. Cyril Nichols to be feted by supporters at fundraiser Saturday Oct. 22 Activism
  • Stand up For Human Rights website, United Nations
    UN experts condemn Israel’s ‘sadistic’ punitive measures against French-Palestinian rights defender Salah Hammouri Activism

Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH

Posted on December 9, 2016August 20, 2019 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH
SHARE ...
          
 
  

  • Tweet

Rabbi is defined as a Jewish scholar or teacher.

By Eileen Fleming

Rabbi Evan Hoffman’s lecture Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate streaming at The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTotah Online site is NOT scholarly;

But it is a slanderous screed of Vanunu rife with erroneous historical facts.

The YU Torah Online site is paid for by the Marcos and Adina Katz Foundation, which has contributed more than $26 million to nonprofits and institutes of higher learning since its inception dedicated to “the Jewish future”.

Rabbi Evan Hoffman is “the Spiritual Leader of Congregation Anshe Sholom in New Rochelle, NY.”

Rabbi Hoffman’s erroneous facts in Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate begin with his claim that Britain provided the Heavy Water for Israel’s nuclear weapons!

Mordechai Vanunu

In The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control’s scholarly Foreign Policy report “Heavy Water Cheaters” by Professor Gary Milhollin [Winter 1987-1988, page 100-119] we learn:

Israel has been making plutonium with Norwegian heavy water for more than 20 years and, according to recent evidence, putting the plutonium into bombs…

Few people know what heavy water is; yet it has been crucial to the spread of nuclear arms.

Nazi Germany pinned its hopes on heavy water from Norway and inspired the United States to launch its own nuclear weapons effort—the Manhattan Project—for fear that Germany would make the bomb first.

Heavy water enabled France to begin nuclear research and was used to make the first nuclear explosive material France obtained.

 Because of heavy water, France, India, and Israel all have been able to make nuclear explosives free of international control…

The Israeli nuclear effort began in earnest in 1957.

Israel’s alliance with France produced what essentially was a joint venture in nuclear development that gave Israel three of the five ingredients it needed for nuclear weapons: a small research reactor, a factory to extract plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel, and nuclear weapon design information.

The reactor and extraction plant could produce about 8 kilograms of plutonium per year, enough for two modern fission bombs equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

France built the reactor and ex-traction plant secretly in the Negev desert, at a site called Dimona.

There is no doubt that France meant to allow Israel to make nuclear weapons…

 From 1959 to 1963 Israel imported 20t [of Heavy Water] from Norway and 3.9t from the United States.

 The reactor at Dimona is Israel’s only means of making plutonium, and plutonium is Israel’s primary nuclear weapon material…

When Dimona opened in 1963, the world’s main heavy water suppliers were the United States and Norway…

The evidence of Israel’s intentions began to emerge in the 1970s..

In a September 4, 1974, CIA memorandum, Prospects for Further Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the agency concluded, “We believe that Israel already has produced nuclear weapons.”

And then CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology Carl Duckett told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a February 1976 briefing that Israel was making bombs from Dimona’s plutonium.

He also disclosed that the CIA had told President Lyndon Johnson as early as 1968 that Israel had produced bombs…

In May 1985 a Los Angeles businessman, Richard Smyth, was indicted for smuggling to Israel 810 high-speed electronic switches, called krytons, which are used as nuclear weapon detonators. Smyth vanished a week before he was to appear for trial…

Aerospace Daily reported in its May 1, 1985, issue that Israel had deployed Jericho II missiles, with a range of 400 miles, carrying nuclear warheads.

 Any doubts left by these accounts should be dispelled by the case of Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli arms technician who worked at Dimona for 8 years….

 Vanunu’s story is either a spectacular security leak or the political equivalent of a nuclear test…. 

 Vanunu’s story is also the most Orwellian saga of this generation!

 

On December 8, I emailed Rabbi Hoffman:

Dear Darling Rabbi Hoffman,

Thanks to a Google alert for “Mordechai Vanunu” this reporter listened to your Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate.

My maternal grandfather was a German Jew who died before I could learn how many of my relatives may have been gassed or fried by the Third Reich.

In 2005, I was just an American in Jerusalem writing my first historical fiction. 

I became a reporter after meeting Vanunu and we began a series of interviews, which are enshrined in articles and books that CORRECT your erroneous historical facts and all your slanderous statements against Vanunu.

Regarding Cheryl Bentov you note “Arab Media sites” and “conspiracy theorists”.

I immediately Googled “Arab Media, Cheryl Bentov” and learned that number one on the first page was THIS reporters article:

Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu Talks Mossad

For publication to The Vanunu Archives at the USA founded and based ArabDailyNews -of which I am the Senior NON-Arab correspondent- please reply:




Have you spent 30 Minutes with Vanunu?

You ignore the fact that Israel sent Vanunu back to SOLITARY for 78 days in 2010 simply because he spoke to foreigners in 2004 after being released from 18 years behind bars;

However THIS REPORTER has thoroughly documented that unmerciful injustice in “BEYOND NUCLEAR: MordechaiVanunu’s FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker 2005-2010” 

Thank you for admitting, “I don’t know” to the audience inquiry:

“What does the United States know about Israel’s nuclear weapons?”

Your audience and YOU can LEARN so much about USA collusion in Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions dating back to the Eisenhower Administration in Heroes, Muses and The Saga of Mordechai Vanunu

I do NOT promote Vanunu as my hero but as the muse that made me realize my childhood dream of being a reporter.

I will be publishing this email -and more- HERE on December 13.

I welcome any statement you provide for publication. 

After sleeping on it, this reporter published Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH prior to deadline because THE TRUTH matters more than my self-imposed deadline and I would NOT sleep well tonight if I didn’t wrap this up today!

And so I conclude with this invitation TO:

Rabbi Evan Hoffman, the Congregation Anshe Sholom in New Rochelle, NY and ALL Americans to learn more TRUTH about Vanunu, USA collusion in Israel’s Nuclear deceptions AND the hellacious Cover-Up of Israel’s 8 June 1967 attack on the USS LIBERTY HERE

Most sincerely,

Eileen Fleming, 

Senior Non-Arab Correspondent for USA’s The Arab Daily News

Author, Reporter

 

 

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Eileen Fleming
Senior Non-Arab Correspondent for TADN at The Arab Daily News
Senior Non-Arab Correspondent for The Arab Daily News
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" who founded WeAreWideAwake.org in response to her first of 8 trips to both sides of The Wall in Palestine Israel.
In 2012, Eileen ran for US House of Representatives District 5, in Fl.
Read her FREE eBooks and more at:http://www.eileenfleming.org/
Latest posts by Eileen Fleming (see all)
  • Vanunu still has more nuclear secrets to spill, Israeli court declares - December 29, 2021
  • 9/11 and a 20th Reflection of That Day - September 5, 2021
  • Mordechai Vanunu: Final Annual Update and this Writers Next Steps - June 19, 2021

  • Tweet

SHARE ...
          
 
  
 
          
 
 Tweet 
American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, News, Palestine & Jordan, Video Tags:Eileen Fleming, France, Israel, Mordechai Vanunu, NEW YORK, Norway, nuclear weapons, politics, Religion and Spirituality, United States, Vanunu, Youtube

Post navigation

Previous Post: American Arabs share in 75th Pearl Harbor remembrance
Next Post: Random thoughts from Taiwan to flag burning

Related Posts

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he lies to the UN General Assembly about peace during his speech Sept. 22, 2016
    Netanyahu’s “happy talk” campaign to destroy peace Arab World
  • Imad Hamad, Executive Director of the American Human Rights Council
    The Breach of the Capitol: An American Wake Up Call   Bloggers
  • Ban the Hate in America Not Just Its Symbols American Arabs
  • Mansour Tadros (left) joins Daily Herald Newspaper Columnist Burt Constable, American Arab journalist Amani Ghouleh, and WBBM TV Reporter Jay Levin in receiving Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Chicago Chapter of ADC in 2010
    Arab Journalists hold conference in Dearborn, 2011 Activism
  • Author Weam Namou
    Pomegranate Explores Young Woman’s Mesmerizing Journey Toward Self-Empowerment American Arabs
  • Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist and columnist with the Washington Post courtesy of Mr. Khashoggi's Twitter page
    Saudis identify suspects in murder of Jamal Khashoggi Arab World

More Related Articles

Ray Hanania with veteran American Arab journalist Helen Thomas. Photo courtesy of Ray Hanania Arab American journalists face industry bias Activism
UEFA Euro 2016: Fraternity, Unity and Diversity Abdennour Toumi
Tyrant: hate TV series coming this summer reveals more about Hollywood than Arabs and Muslims Ali Younes
UFOs have plagued the Arab World, too American Arabs
Bannon and Trump’s Bridge to The Left by way of Corporatist Globalist Media American Arabs
We Americans on a Mission from God with a Message @POTUS Trump: How to MAGA Activism

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

  • OPINION COLUMNS
  • Tiktok.com/@RayHanania
    Israeli-push behind effort to ban Tiktok in the United States
    January 19, 2023
  • Ghassan Rubeiz
    To what extent is Hezbollah responsible for the current crisis in Lebanon?
    January 17, 2023
  • Image from Rashid-al-Din Hamadani's "A Compendium of Chronicles. Image courtesy of Wikipedia
    Why allow religious extremists to re-define Islam in the West?
    January 10, 2023
  • CAIR Executive Director and co-founder Nihad Awad
    This Thanksgiving, let’s use our Blessings for good
    November 23, 2022
  • NEWS
  • Arab Democratic Club Feb 12, 2023 Forum & Brunch flier
    Arab Democrats host forum for Chicago and suburban candidates Feb. 12
    January 18, 2023
  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced Dr. Manal Fakhoury has been elected to the position of Chair of the National Board of Directors, and that attorneys Spojmie Nasiri of California and John Floyd of Texas have joined the organization’s National Board.
    CAIR Announces Dr. Manal Fakhoury as New Board Chair, New Board Members Spojmie Nasiri and John Floyd
    January 12, 2023
  • AHRC Executive Director Imad Hamad
    AHRC: Honor Dr. King Day with Civility, Unity, and Action
    January 11, 2023
  • Citgo Gas Station and Quik Mart at 3759 W. Chicago Ave in Chicago ordered closed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot because a street gang member with an AK-47 killed someone in front of the store. Only Arab and Muslim stores are being closed by the Mayor
    When Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot targeted Arab businesses in 2021 and 2022
    January 4, 2023
  • NEWSWIRE
  • Arab Democratic Club Feb 12, 2023 Forum & Brunch flier
    Arab Democrats host forum for Chicago and suburban candidates Feb. 12
    January 18, 2023
  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced Dr. Manal Fakhoury has been elected to the position of Chair of the National Board of Directors, and that attorneys Spojmie Nasiri of California and John Floyd of Texas have joined the organization’s National Board.
    CAIR Announces Dr. Manal Fakhoury as New Board Chair, New Board Members Spojmie Nasiri and John Floyd
    January 12, 2023
  • AHRC Executive Director Imad Hamad
    AHRC: Honor Dr. King Day with Civility, Unity, and Action
    January 11, 2023
  • Stand up For Human Rights website, United Nations
    UN experts condemn Israel’s ‘sadistic’ punitive measures against French-Palestinian rights defender Salah Hammouri
    October 19, 2022

Creative Commons License
All work on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Do not edit original work. Give credit to the original source.

  • ZiyadBrandLogo-2016BlackRedBackgrnd.jpg
  • 08-09-21-Ziyad-Sices-Ad.jpg
  • 08-09-21-Ziyad-Ad-Pantry-essentials.jpg
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • Interlink 2022 Cookbooks Make the Best Holiday Gifts
    Interlink 2022 Cookbooks Make the Best Holiday Gifts
    October 24, 2022
  • Stories My Father Told Me by author and artist Helen Zughaib, book cover. Photo courtesy of Cune Press
    Stories My Father Told Me by author and artist Helen Zughaib
    November 1, 2021
  • ENTERTAINMENT
  • Hussam al-Mayman, The Mayman Show, podcast Arab News
    Arab News launches third season of The Mayman Show podcast
    December 15, 2022
  • Interlink 2022 Cookbooks Make the Best Holiday Gifts
    Interlink 2022 Cookbooks Make the Best Holiday Gifts
    October 24, 2022
  • Comedian Ramy Youssef courtesy of his Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ramysfaceboo/
    “Ramy” cable series melds Arab world reality with every day American life
    October 22, 2022
  • The Ray Hanania Radio Show Live Wed 5 PM EST in Detroit, Washington DC, Ontario and on Thursday in Chicago. Watch the program live at Facebook.com/ArabNews
    Second Season of “The Ray Hanania Show” Arab American radio launches April 6
    April 4, 2022
  • American Arab CHamber President HassanNijem accepts the Proclamation from Chicago Ald. Roderick Sawyer at the Chamber dinner March 30, 2022
    Chicagoland celebrates Arab American Heritage Month
    March 31, 2022
  • New-iTunes-1400-x-1400-The-Ray-Hanania-Show-Podcast-Icon-300-x-300.jpg
  • Podcast-iTunes-Logo-Chi-City-Hall-1985.jpg
  • terroristbookcover-300-x-300.jpg
  • The-Kings-Pawn-Book-300-x-300.png
  • powerpr300x300ad.jpg
Arab News Newspaper Logo
Read the Arab News, the leading English language newspaper in the MIddle East

Follow Ray Hanania at Gab.com, MeWe.com and IDobbinate.com, the alternatives to Facebook and Twitter Censorship.

Click here to get information on The Ray Hanania Radio Show and its podcasts

Copyright © 2023 The Arab Daily News.

Powered by PressBook Premium theme