- "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
for $24.90, DVD or VHS, by calling 503-853-3688, or at the address below.
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