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Vanunu knows the score, but doesn't care. The Herald also knows the score, but apparently doesn't seem to care if Vanunu drops himself in it. Maybe they should try a little harder, and try to get an interview with Alan Johnson, whose not being allowed to talk to foreigners either, and subject to a harsher penalty.

What can you expect from a terrorist state like Israel. They obviously don't believe in human rights, and, given their actions towards the Palestinians, it isn't surprising that they treat some of their own people like this. The UN should bring sanctions in against the Israelis; and it is time that the UK stopped supporting them in everything they do. The Americans also need to wake up and stop being their paymaster and arms suppliers. The world already knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, around 150 to 200 of them. So keeping this man in gaol won't make that knowledge go away. Perhaps he also has knowledge of their development of chemical and biological weapons, and they don't want that to become general knowledge. No doubt, like Saddam Hussein, they were given the technical expertise by the yanks. Either that, or their spies obtained them from the yanks. Anyway, it looks like Vanunu will have to join the 10,000 Palestinians, including children, that the Israelis keep locked up; though the Palestinians have not been afforded the luxury of a trial.

Of course, what has really infuriated the leaders of the terrorist state of Israel is that Mr. Vanunu converted to christainity while in prison. That is taken more seriously than dropping weapons secrets. Surely everyone knew that the terrorist state had nuclear weapons? It's astonishing. This guy will be in prison or under huge restrictions in his movement and right of speech for the rest of his life. Yet the killers who slaughtered 946 Palestinian children from September 2000 to June 07 have never been arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced. But that' s the Israeli way. And what a dispicable way it is too.

Once again the anti Jewish racism of certain Herald posters shine comes to the surface. This man was released from prison on certain conditions - he broke them and is now back in prison. Quite simple really and the Herald is not blameless in this matter either.

Talk about having short memories - Glasgow airport -bar for the grace of God - was nearly a slaugher house, likewise London - due to Moslems - whose sole reason for living appears to be the eradication of Israel off the face of the earth. What do you expect Israel to do ?? They might not be perfect but at least they are democratic - let me repeat - democratic - shame on you all for castigating Israel - and i am not Jewish incidentally

Bampots like Adnan do a great service by exposing their racist beliefs better than any one else could describe. Please don't remove!

Israel is not a state of all its citizens, and is therefore not a true democracy as the Western world defines the word

It's way past time those prattling about the terrorist state's "democracy" explain what they mean. When over half the population (the non-Jewish population) have lesser rights, and in many cases, no rights at all (i.e., the Palestinian people), when Jews living in Israel can kill with impunity (the IDF), where torture is officially sanctioned by the so-called justice system, where racism has been taken to new and dispicable heights, and where the ongoing slow motion genocide of the Palestinian people continues on a daily basis, "democracy" in Israel is a myth. Every day for the past four plus years UK soldiers (including Scots) are out and about in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan bombing the country and its people; they are torturing "prisoners" to the point of death. They are terrorists in someone else's homeland. Iraq and its people have done nothing to the UK (or anyone else). Curious that you are so eager to condemn others for doing less than what you, yourselves are doing. Do you think the people of Iraq are non-people? That Afghans are non-people? That you have some degree of superiority over humanity? You don't. Canadian forces are also occupying Afghanistan to the shame of decent people everywhere. They are part of the NATO (so called) forces who are killing civilians and occupying someone else's homeland. Afghans never harmed anyone in Canada, but that didn't stop the government from ensuring our miltiary forces were out there killing and being killed on behalf of the US. NATO, like the UN, has outlived any usefulness either might have had. Both are now simply extensions of the US's war of terror being waged against Muslim countries. And that is unacceptable. . So who are the terrorists? The ones dropping bombs on innocents from thousands of feet above or the ones who are detonating car bombs? Are those who die as a result of a car bomb any more dead than those killed by a bomb dropped from an F-16 bomber? Or is it your learned opinion that it's perfectly okay to kill, maim innocent people, destroy their homes, their country, and they not retalitate in some form or another? Where has the notion come from that "the west" can slaughter with impunity? I would suggest strongly it's way past time that we, the people of the world, got our priorities straight. You are living in relatively peaceful conditions. Why should the Iraqis, the Palestinians, the Afghans, the Lebanese, and any and all others who are occupied, oppressed, and slaughtered not be able to do likewise without lethal interference from external forces bent on destroying them and their homelands? If you believe occupied and oppressed people should not be free to livei n peace and security, what does that make you?

[quote][bold]Angie[/bold] wrote: It\'s way past time those prattling about the terrorist state\'s \"democracy\" explain what they mean. When over half the population (the non-Jewish population) have lesser rights, and in many cases, no rights at all (i.e., the Palestinian people), when Jews living in Israel can kill with impunity (the IDF), where torture is officially sanctioned by the so-called justice system, where racism has been taken to new and dispicable heights, and where the ongoing slow motion genocide of the Palestinian people continues on a daily basis, \"democracy\" in Israel is a myth. Every day for the past four plus years UK soldiers (including Scots) are out and about in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan bombing the country and its people; they are torturing \"prisoners\" to the point of death. They are terrorists in someone else\'s homeland. Iraq and its people have done nothing to the UK (or anyone else). Curious that you are so eager to condemn others for doing less than what you, yourselves are doing. Do you think the people of Iraq are non-people? That Afghans are non-people? That you have some degree of superiority over humanity? You don\'t. Canadian forces are also occupying Afghanistan to the shame of decent people everywhere. They are part of the NATO (so called) forces who are killing civilians and occupying someone else\'s homeland. Afghans never harmed anyone in Canada, but that didn\'t stop the government from ensuring our miltiary forces were out there killing and being killed on behalf of the US. NATO, like the UN, has outlived any usefulness either might have had. Both are now simply extensions of the US\'s war of terror being waged against Muslim countries. And that is unacceptable. . So who are the terrorists? The ones dropping bombs on innocents from thousands of feet above or the ones who are detonating car bombs? Are those who die as a result of a car bomb any more dead than those killed by a bomb dropped from an F-16 bomber? Or is it your learned opinion that it\'s perfectly okay to kill, maim innocent people, destroy their homes, their country, and they not retalitate in some form or another? Where has the notion come from that \"the west\" can slaughter with impunity? I would suggest strongly it\'s way past time that we, the people of the world, got our priorities straight. You are living in relatively peaceful conditions. Why should the Iraqis, the Palestinians, the Afghans, the Lebanese, and any and all others who are occupied, oppressed, and slaughtered not be able to do likewise without lethal interference from external forces bent on destroying them and their homelands? If you believe occupied and oppressed people should not be free to livei n peace and security, what does that make you?[/quote] Angie - Goodness - i dont know if you are male/female - but in any case imagine being a female in Afghanistan - not able to go school - being shot possibly if you do - with a status in relation to the males somewhat on a par to the animals - low life expectancy etc etc. I appreciate and accept everything in the west is not perfect -far from it - but gies a break hen - these Taleban guys you must accept are total bams!!! Also it has to be accepted that we in the west have been granted great advantages as a result of our Christian heritage - compared to that from the Islam faith!

Vanunu knows exactly what he is doing and is lucky that he did not live and work in Russia, Iran, Iraq and several other countries where her would have just have disappeared having been eliminated for revealing sensitive material to outsiders. Had Israel not been the DEMOCRACY she is, (perhaps far from perfect but still democratic), Vanunu could easily have been kept in prison and left to pass his entire life there alternatively he could also have been eliminated by the Shin Bet.

One thing we do have in the "west" is more sophisticated ways of killing innocent people and destroying their homelands, don't we, though? A monumental liar and war criminal, Tony Blair, for instance, has just stepped down as PM, and instead of heading in irons to the Hague to stand trial for the slaughter he is responsible for in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, he is appointed as a peace envoy to wander amongst those countries he helped destroy, whose pepole he helped vapourize. And you think that the "west" is a beacon to all nations? So many lives have been lost because someone with a cache of weapons felt that others should have "freedom". When I look at the countries in the world where "the west" has brought "freedom and democracy", substitute death and destruction. How dare the US, the UK, Canada, or anyone else presume to tell the people of Afghanistan how to live their lives? Install a puppet government and call it a "democracy"; support war lords; pass on the evils of capitalism on to the peoples of Afghanistan while destroying their country and ensuring that they continue to live in poverty. And call that "freedom"??. No, it's neither democracy nor freedom. You're forgetting, if you ever knew, how the US and "the west" supported the Taliban and provided them with arms and support so as to send the Russians out of the country. Why? So the US and friends could take over and put their arms industry to good use -- killing and destroying. Don't confuse colonialism with democracy and freedom. You might take a moment and reflect on what your reaction would be today were some other nation to bomb your beautiful Scotland into rubble because it felt you didn't have freedom and democracy. What would you do then? Because, you see, it is not democracy and freedom that is the issue here. It's killing, destroying, and annexing someone else's lands, forcing someone else's will on others. That is totally unacceptable in Afghanistan, in Palestine, in Iraq or anywhere else. It is criminal. It is evil. And it matters not whether I am male or female, sir.

I cant believe some of the comments on this board. Mordechai Vanunu is a true Israeli hero. He exposed what was an illegal nuclear operation by the Israeli government. It would be hypocritical to suggest that Israel is any less dangerous than Iran for possessing nuclear weapons. If we are going to castigate one country for developing illegal nuclear weapons then we must do so for every country, and not just the countries we feeling like criticizing. Mordechai Vanunu knew that Israel being in possession of nuclear weapon was a threat to the region and the sovereignty of Israel, so he blew the whistle on the whole operation. Israels attitude towards Mordechai Vanunu ever since then has been one we would expect from rogue state and not a liberal democracy. Could you imagine the reaction if Iran sent a snatch squad to the UK and took Salman Rushdie back to Iran for trial?