Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli traitor who handed over state secrets to the British press, is once again lionized in the media.
And it’s in so many different flavors! What to choose? What to choose?
UPI:
Israeli whistleblower in trouble again
An Israeli court has convicted nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu of violating an order to avoid contact with foreign journalists.Vanunu, a former technician at Israel’s main nuclear reactor, served an 18-year-prison sentence after he was convicted of leaking documents that led experts to conclude Israel had a nuclear weapons arsenal that ranked sixth in the world, the Post reported.
AP:
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu could end up back in jail after an Israeli court convicted him on Monday of violating an order forbidding him contact with foreigners.
Vanunu, a former technician at Israel’s nuclear plant near the southern town of Dimona, spent 18 years in prison for giving details of the country’s atomic program to a British newspaper in 1986.
Ynet! (Via Reuters, and Ynet should be ashamed for not editing this crap out.)
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was convicted Monday by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court of 15 violations of a military order prohibiting him from talking to foreign journalists and leaving Israel.
[…] Vanunu was sentenced to 18 years behind bars in 1986 after giving an unauthorised interview to a British newspaper about his work at Israel’s Dimona reactor. The disclosures all but blew away the secrecy around an assumed Israeli atomic arsenal.
And Reuters says that like it’s a good thing.
The JPost, also via wire services:
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court convicted nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on 14 counts of violating a court order to avoid contact with foreign journalists.
[…] In 1986, Vanunu, a former technician at Israel’s main nuclear reactor, gave pictures and documents to the London-based Sunday Times that led experts to conclude that Israel had a sizable nuclear weapons arsenal, ranking it sixth in the world. Vanunu served an 18-year prison term for his disclosures.
The lie has solidified. Vanunu is no longer a traitor who leaked classified information to a foreign newspaper. He is now a “whistleblower,” a term used to describe a member of a corporation or organization who goes to the press to complain about bad or illegal company policies and actions.
Because of course, Vanunu was right in the anti-Israel media’s eyes, to disclose government information. Anything that portrays Israel in a negative light is something everyone has the right to know. That’s one of the unwritten rules of reporting on Israel (and America).
Shame on you, Jerusalem Post editors, and shame on you, Ynet editors, for falling into the “whistleblower” trap. Mordechai Vanunu is a spy and a traitor, nothing more, nothing less. The man so hates Israel (and himself) that he converted to Christianity to try to erase the last vestiges of his heritage. I’d say good riddance, but he did immense damage to Israel, and I’m perfectly fine with leaving him to rot where he most hates to be.