"1000 Days" Let Vanunu Go Protest

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Tuesday January 23, 2007 12:47 by Justin Morahan - Peace People

Israeli Embassy refuses to accept letter by hand

"You must put a stamp on the envelope and post it" said the Ambassador's representative

There was a protest held outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin on Tuesday, 16 January to mark the thousandth day since Mordechai Vanunu, was placed under severe sanctions in Israel immediately after he was released from Ashkelon prison where he had served an eighteen year sentence. Mordechai Vanunu is the whistle-blower who told the world that Israel had nuclear weapons.

The English version of " I am your Spy", written by Vanunu while he was in prison, was read outside the Embassy by John Fitzgibbon and the Irish version of the same poem "Is mise bhur Spiaire" was read by Máire MhicFhearghusa.

The new Israeli Ambassador, Dr Zion Evrony, through an Embassy representative, refused to accept a letter from the protestors, insisting that it be sent by post. Over a hundred leaflets were distributed to members of the public.