- this is the letter he sent:
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- The Israeli Committee for
- A Middle East Free of
- Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms
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- Press release, May 7, 2011
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- Morderchai Vanunu demands to apply a recently passed
law and revoke his Israeli citizenship. "I have no interest in Israeli
citienship, I don't want to go on living here".
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- To Mr. Eli Yishai, Minister of the Interior, 2 Kaplan
Street, Hakirya, Jerusalem
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- Re: Revocation of Citizenship
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- I am Mordechai Vanunu, who was kidnapped in Rome on September
30, 1986, by the security services of Israel.
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- I was tried by the Jerusalem District Court, convicted
of espionage, treason and assistance to the enemy and sentenced to 18 years
imprisonment, following a newspaper interview to the London "Sunday
Times" where I told of the production of materials for nuclear arms
in Israel.
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- I have enacted the democratic principle of the public's
right to know.
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- I have spent 18 years at the Ashkelon Prison, mostly
under conditions of complete isolation. On April 21, 2004 I was released,
under severe restrictions.
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- Seven years have passed and the restrictions are renewed
again and again, every year, on the basis of the 1945 Defense (Emergency)
Regulations. Now these restrictions are about to be renewed for yet another
year.
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- Since my release I lived for six years in East Jerusalem.
Since September 2010 I have lived in Tel Aviv.
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- On June 1986 I have converted to Anglican Christianity.
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- Recently, the Knesset passed a law authorizing the revocation
of Israeli citizenship for those convicted of espionage and treason.
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- For 25 years I am waiting and demanding the restoration
of my complete freedom.
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- I am asking the State of Israel to revoke my citizenship.
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- This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new
nor recent.
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- Now, however, it is supported by the new Citizenship
Revocation Law, passed on March 28, 2011.
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- I am asking and expecting that this law be enforced to
the letter, and that my citizenship be revoked here and now, under the
spirit of the law.
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- I have no other citizenship, but I can easily get one,
even during my enforced sojourn in Israel, and certainly if I leave the
country.
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- After the treatment and "care" which I got
from this country and its citizens, I cannot feel myself a wanted citizen
here.
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- In the Israeli media and on the Israeli streets I am
called "The Atomic Spy" and "A traitor", harassed and
persecuted as an Enemy of the State for 25 years.
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- I feel myself still imprisoned, still a prisoner of war
and a hostage, held by the state and the government.
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- After 25 years of getting various harsh penalties from
the state, I would like to see an end to punishments and the realization
of my basic human right to freedom.
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- I wish to exercise my right to the Freedom of Conscience
and the Freedom of Choice, by choosing not to be a citizen of Israel.
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- I have no interest in Israeli citizenship, I do not want
to live here.
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- I ask that you revoke my citizenship here and now.
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- I request that you set me free of Israel, since Israel
does not want me nor do I want Israel.
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- All that I knew I told, already in 1986, to the English
newspaper. I have no further confidential information.
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- The time has come to let me leave Israel, after 25 years
of imprisonment, a full quarter of a century!
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- Mordechai Vanunu
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- (c/o Att. Avigdor Feldman, 10 Huberman Street, Tel Aviv)
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- Copies: The President, Prime Minister, Defense Minister,
Foreign Minister and Justice Minister.
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