Kia ora, we have been asked by Arthur Quinn (Waiwhetu / Lower Hutt Peace Group) to alert you all to the impending visit
of the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, who arrives here on Sunday (departs on Tuesday) and will be
meeting with representatives of the government while here.
Arthur has asked if you are able, could you please contact either Helen Clark’s or Jim Anderton’s office and ask them to
raise the matter of Mordechai Vanunu with Mr Ben-Eliezer during any talks they may have with him. Mordechai is the
Israeli technician who blew the whistle on Israel’s nuclear weapons programme and was kidnapped by Israeli agents in
Rome and transported back to Israel for trial. He has served thirteen and a half years in prison, eleven and a half
years of that in solitary confinement.
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