- "I want to tell those who say I am a traitor, I
suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian."
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- In 2004, a brave, sober-eyed Jew named Mordechai
emerged from almost two decades in a Mideastern hell of a prison. Why was
he in prison" After 9 years employed at Israel's top-secret nuclear
installation, Dimona, Mordechai went public with the fact of "tiny"
Israel's stockpile of 150 to 200 nuclear weapons and its development of
a hydrogen bomb, which can kill millions of human beings. He spoke as an
eyewitness at a time when the nation denied it even possesses nukes.
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- For speaking the truth, Mordechai was abducted
from Italy, drugged and gagged, and imprisoned. His first two years were
spent in a small room where a light and a surveillance camera were trained
on him 24 hours a day. He spent his first 11-1/2 years in solitary confinement.
Amnesty International described his treatment as "cruel, inhuman,
and degrading."
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- Our friendly "democratic ally"
imprisoned Mordechai Vanunu for exposing the nuclear power it concealed
from the world (including us!). Israel has now sentenced Vanunu to six
more months in prison for speaking to foreign press.
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- The whistleblower--now 49, unmarried, unemployed,
forbidden to leave Israel--has no secrets left. What he has to say is that
he suffered as a Christian in a state that is not free, not humane, and
punished him for accepting Christ as well as for speaking a truth that
matters to the future of the human race.
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- Vanunu's story and his testimony for Christ
are virtually unknown to the millions of American Christians who support
and even fund the very prisons, ultra-orthodox settlements, and anti-Christian
government that oppresses Christians in Israel. (See, <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/christiansinisraelrepost.html>Christians
in Israel: An Endangered Species) Pastor John Hagee's website brags that
he has visited Israel 22 times and "given more than $8.5 million to
bring Soviet Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel." In all
these visits, Hagee has apparently never seen the harsh reality of Israel's
institutionalized hatred of Christ. Maybe Mordechai could give him just
one tour.
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- "I was baptized into Christianity,"
<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_10_121/ai_n6159160>says
Vanunu, who changed his name to the Christian name John Carson in 2005
to reflect his total identification with Christ, not his Jewish ancestors.
"If I was a Jewish [believer in Judaism], I would not have had all
this suffering, isolation, only because I am a Christian." During
his 11 years of isolation, Mordechai resisted his captors" commands
by reading the New Testament loudly in English. Upon his release from Ashkelon
Prison in 2004, Vanunu took refuge in St. George's Cathedral. It was stormed
by 30 armed Israeli police that November, to question him about speaking
to foreign media.
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- Today "I am still free," Vanunu
tells supporters through his website. He plans a September appeal of his
sentence of six more months in prison. Vanunu told <http://www.counterpunch.org/goodman08182004.html>Democracy
Now! that his press interviews were about "freedom of speech, freedom
of movement, [my] human being, human rights." He explained, "And
all what I have to say is my political view. And I have the right to speak
them if Israel is a real democracy. And I hope you in the United States
will support me, and support my right to freedom of speech."
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- He said, "I don't think they will be
stupid [enough] to arrest me or to question. But. . . they can do anything
- it is Israel. Israel, all of the world knows, they're [able] to do anything."
He's right. This isn"t the US. It's Israel, and Vanunu faces the real
possibility of life locked up again. He has lost the strong years of his
youth. He longs to escape Israel, to find a wife and a job in the freedom
of the United States. Instead he remains trapped, a prisoner in the "Promised
Land."
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- Am I my Brother's Captor"
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- To American evangelicals, the dusky desert
hills and rolling valleys of Israel represent the land where Christ walked--a
romanticized nation, precious with history. Evangelicals believe it is
where God's "Chosen People" must prosper before the eventual
return of Christ brings their conversion.
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- Israeli Christians like Vanunu worship the
same Jesus Christ adored by evangelicals. They, too, treasure the Son of
God who once walked on the Sea of Galilee and hung from that lonely cross
at Golgotha. But to most of them, the land of modern Israel is becoming
a prison, not a spiritual paradise. They experience the real Israel, where
Christ cannot be spoken of to minors, where modern-day Pharisees base laws
on the evil Babylonian Talmud, where truthtellers like Vanunu are locked
away and spit upon--like Christ!
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- In 1997 President Ezer Weizman had this to
say about Vanunu: "He was a spy who gave away secrets, and the fact
that he did so for conviction rather than for money makes no difference.
He was a traitor to his country."
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- Vanunu is also a "traitor" because
of his acceptance of Christ. Just as Jesus opposed the Judaism of his day,
Vanunu betrayed the Judaism of his. It is the religion that undergirds
Zionism, an increasing danger to the world, amassing powerful weapons of
mass destruction and resting on an Orthodox fundamentalism that grows only
more anti-Gentile and anti-Christ. Vanunu has exposed more than his nation's
nuclear secret; his story shows the "secret" of their national
identity " that Israel is no friend of Christianity.
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- Christians in the US must realize the enormous
antagonism of Talmudic Judaism (the official religious position of the
State of Israel) toward Christianity. The idealized Judaism of evangelicals"
imagination does not exist in Israel. Vanunu suffered at the hands of this
religious state, and he still suffers today. Christ also suffered and was
crucified.
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- Christians are called to resist"not
with violence or weapons, but with truth spoken in love. Instead, the church
today funds the state of Israel and its atrocities against the Palestinians
and believers who work for justice and peace.
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- If it weren"t for American Christians"
unbiblical support of Israel, this tiny Mideast nation would not even possess
nuclear weapons. It would not have prisons in which to torture Palestinians
or lock men like Vanunu away from human touch.
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- The state of Israel was founded and settled
and is now run primarily by European Jews and their children who flocked
to the "Promised Land." Despite their idealism, the result has
become a Judeofascist anti-Arab state. It is a society based on the worship
of Talmudic Pharisaic religion and very real racism against Gentiles.
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- American evangelicals will have to answer
for supporting the captors of this gentle Israeli Christian.
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- Harmony
Grant writes and edits for National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watchdog group.
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- Let
the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they have saddled
45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: <http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp>http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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- Learn
how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal it now in the
U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's <http://video.google.com/videoplay"docid=7217700265038533779>Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com. Purchase this
gripping documentary to show at church. Order online at <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org
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