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KitSileya

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2. Mordechai Vanunu is a hero.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 12:03 PM

Oct 2012

Grass is right, and it doesn't matter whether you think he overstepped with his previous poem. Vanunu dared to tell the world that the emperor was naked, and got 18 years in mostly solitary confinement for his whistleblowing, and he's still imprisoned in Israel, even if he isn't kept in a recognizable jail building.

If the world is to have any credibility when it comes to policing Iran's mutterings about the bomb, we have to recognize that Israel stepped over that boundary first - even if it hasn't signed the non-proliferation treaty, and Iran did (while being ruled by an American-installed dictator, mind you.)

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