clipped from: www.opednews.com   
Vanunu's 18 years in an Israeli prison, most of it spent in solitary confinement in a small, windowless cell, came to a temporary end when he was released in April 2004.
Now he is appealing a further six-month sentence handed down on his new charges. As Jerry Levin writes:

Specifically he is charged with:
1) maintaining contacts or exchanging information with foreign citizens especially journalists, and
2) coming within 500 meters of places from which it is possible to leave Israel, including the West Bank.
The charges detail 21 interviews with "foreign journalists" and "chat room" conversations and with trying to go to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve 2004.
What the hell is Israel trying to do?
trying to go to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve 2004.
After spending 18 years in an Israeli prison for blowing the whistle on Israel's secret program to develop atomic bombs
Israel still refuses to allow Vanunu to leave.
If someone wants to leave a country, he or she should leave, right?
Wrong.