Israel has created a purgatory in which a free man is held prisoner because of nineteen year old memories in a fifty year old brain. What sensible motivation deprives a free man of his right to leave and make a new life?

" Waiting , waiting , waiting" still echoes up and down corridors of a prison in Ashkelon, Israel.
"Waiting, waiting, waiting" is still the mantra that sustains a man confined to a solitary cell for eleven and a half years, and enduring seven further.
"Waiting, waiting, waiting" is the holy whisper, the breath, the wellspring of hopeful murmurs from a man in sensory deprivation; enduring various degree and combination of psychological tortures most often induced under twenty four hours of electric light exposure.

"Waiting, waiting, waiting" are the words Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu recently spoke to me over the phone from East Jerusalem where he lives in sanctuary under the protection of the Anglican Church and under the detention and further restrictions imposed upon him by the state of Israel, since the conclusion of his prison term last April.

Mr. Vanunu asserts his rights as a free man when he speaks to me and the rest of the free world. And in doing so he affords us a glimpse into his current life as controlled by the Israeli justice system especially as it applies to dissidence, free speech and non violent struggle to be free. Mordechai Vanunu is not entitled to his free speech because, according to the state of Israel, he is a present security risk of nineteen year old memories collected while working as a technician in a nuclear plant. He has been banned from speaking to foreigners because expressing his free speech is considered probably dangerous.

It would appear, Mordechai is being further punished for what he did in the past and for that which might exist in some future. Only a theoretical physicist could give measure to this furture crime in some exspansion of concurrent time. And what a ludicrous conundrum that is most serious and one that gives pause to look further into the grave nature of prejudice cast against Vanunu during his stay in prison and now continued in some form of misdirected nationalist vengeance against a man who continues to declare himself whistleblower and man of conscience.
Almost a year ago, he walked out the gates of Askelon Prison, and declared himself free and proud of what he had done.

Almost every aspect of the Vanunu case and how he has been treated and is currently treated, causes blight on the principles and definitions of personal freedom. In a civilized society , Mordechai Vanunu , would not have been drugged or kidnapped in order to stand trial for telling the truth when his government was lying. And it follows that in a civilized society, Mordechai Vanunu would be now free to leave the country that punished him. But by Israel's present standards, a fifty year old brain with nineteen year old memories of life as a technician before during and after endlessly cruel electric light treatments, is subject to consideration as some kind of national security threat.

In the civilized free world, upon release, he would have been either allowed to leave or be deported as an undesireable. While restricted from making contact with the world, the world continues to make contact with him and wishes to honor him, even as he endures ongoing hatred and physical threat fuelled by tabloid medias.

From the free world:

Yoko Ono presented him with a Peace Award, in absentia, Setember 16 2004
And he was recently elected Rector of Glasgow University in Scotland.
He was once again nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which has become an annual nomination since 1989.

Mordechai Vanunu continues to call for complete nuclear inspections, accountabilities and disarmament, especially and including Israel. He has rather purposefully given interviews for expressly the purpose of explaining his motivation(s) as a whistleblower and his rights as a free man in order to tell everyone about these motivations and to continue to express that he has no more secrets. Considering the hatred perpetuated against him while he was still in prison, it would seem a pre-requisite for the man to speak out for himself and make the world at large familiar and more clear about his intentions as a man of conscience.

He is not sorry and he insists that he has neither new secrets nor regrets about the old secrets. On behalf of world peace, he expressly wishes for all countries to lay down their nuclear weapons. And he wishes to begin rehabilitation and a new life outside of Israel as soon as possible, where he can continue to speak out for a world peace through nuclear disarmament.

The question should also follow, does Israel have any more secrets? And why are there secrets at all? Is there a “secret