Posted on 11/10/2005 2:22:43 PM PST by zyaakov
Justice Rubinstein: U.S. should free convicted spy Pollard
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
High Court Justice Eliyakim Rubinstein on Thursday made a rare politically tainted comment when saying that the United States should release Jonathan Pollard, who has been jailed for almost 20 years following his conviction for spying for Israel.
"It is time the U.S. Administration free Jonathan Pollard," Rubinstein said. "20 years is more than enough time to serve in prison and I believe that the U.S. should pardon him."
Rubinstein was speaking during the opening panel of the annual conference of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in Eilat. During a debate on the global struggle against anti-Semitism, Rubinstein was asked if he considered Pollard?s imprisonment as an act of anti-Semitism.
In response, the justice urged the U.S. to free Pollard, saying that "he committed an error, Israel committed a grave error, but it's time for his release. I hope Israel continues appealing to the United States on the matter, but I don't think the High Court has anything to do in the matter. The bottom line is that he must be released."
Rubinstein's comment might prove to be problematic as the High Court is slated to hand rulings on two petitions by Pollard and his family over his imprisonment, including a request to recognize him as a Prisoner of Zion
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Sorry, but a spy is a spy. Throw away the key.
"No"
ditto
Guilty consciences?
Sorry, I like Israel, but I love the USA more. A spy is a spy.
I guess my question why isn't spying considered treason and the spies executed. It would make spying here in the US very, very unattractive. I know we would then be putting our spies at risk also with the policy, but with all the spying done in the US (just a case last week on a bunch of chinese on the west coast selling DOD and Navy sub secrets) it should be done.
If I had it, I'd post the "geeeeez, not this sh!t again" graphic.
a Paid prisoner of zion, no less.
Pollard should be and will be released when his body assumes room temperature. Until then, the traitor should rot!
No.
The Constitution limits treason to levying war against the U.S., or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Spying for an enemy during wartime would certainly be treason, but Israel was not our "enemy" and we were not then at war.
hang him
I dont believe we have executed any spies since the Rosenbergs. At least during the last 20 years or so spies have not been executed in return for their cooperation detailing all the secrets they passed on and to whom. The government has usually felt it was better to know what had been compromised than to execute a spy when it would like take decades to accomplish the execution.
Perhaps he only means that we should release the traitor's body to his next of kin.
Another creative way of saying, "Mistakes were made..."
Which is the reason why Pollard should never see daylight again. It's a deterrent to others like him. Which is why Israel is trying so hard to get him out, because they're probably having a harder time convincing Americans to spy for them with the Pollard example hanging over the discussion
True, but on other hand information he stole went to aid the Soviet Union, which is an enemy.
It wasnt a victimless crime amost allies. The Israelis traded our secrets to the Russians for release of Soviet Jews.
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