Well, first Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission opened a website.
Now, Israel’s censors have permitted Channel 10 to air a 14-minute video depicting wide-angle shots of Dimona (like the photograph at right), “including buses bringing staff to the site, well-ordered lines waiting to use a cash machine and a leisurely soccer game nearby.”
Get the feeling someone has a PR problem?
An older Channel 10 program has an amazing computer generated animation of Dimona based on photographs by Mordechai Vanunu.
I am still looking for a link to the Channel 10 program. Perhaps a Hebrew speaker can find it on the Channel 10 website or maybe somebody in Israel TiVo’d it.
Late Update: Reuters has a 54 second clip from the program. Thanks to ACW Reader YG.
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Hizb’allah militants (and, presumably, Iranian intelligence) were able to capture the feed from installations they have in southern Lebanon. Chances are, Israel wanted them to. So one possibility is that these instances are reminders to the Islamic Republic of Iran about the technical abilities of the Jewish Republic.
It may also be that the government is laying the groundwork for becoming a declared nuclear power. The US might be offering something like that to Israel in exchange for resolution with the Palestinians (in addition to membership in the NATO alliance).
— Yuri Guri · Jan 9, 03:24 PM ·
If that doesn’t work just go the the main site for Reuters TV and look for the clip. I don’t know where to find the whole thing, however. Maybe there’s a bittorrent?
— Yuri Guri · Jan 9, 03:33 PM ·
— Jeffrey Lewis · Jan 9, 04:08 PM ·