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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Piss off.
And that was proven where and when?
Show me one legitimate source making that claim.
If true why does Weinberger now call the Pollard matter minor?
John Walker was sentenced to two life terms plus ten years. His brother was given a life term. Jerry Whitworth received a total sentence of 365 years for his part in the Walker ring. Interesting idea of "lighter" you have.
Pollard agreed to provide a complete damage assessment in return for a lighter sentence...and immediately reneged.
US Attorneys get REALLY upset when people do that.
Pollard is a traitor. He's ours, we're gonna keep him, and he's gonna die of old age in a US prison. The Israelis need to move on to a more worthy subject.
"Pollard meant no harm to the US, he acted to save Isreal."
If I remember correctly, Pollard shopped his information to several countries--Israel was merely the high bidder.
Pollard didn't give one damn about whether the US got harmed or whether Israel got helped, he merely cared about getting paid.
And then immediately report the incident, to the proper authorities in the Chain of Command.
You were there?
Or did you read something, somewhere, from some- shall we say- point of view.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts
Read it and weep.
BS
Nations do not have friends. They have interests and insofar as those interests are parallel they may have allies, but they do NOT have friends.
You're the one who should be weeping.
Citing SEYMOUR M. HERSH as the source. On Freerepublic yet. LOL
That is exactly the quality and veracity of these stories about Pollard. They come from anti American and anti Israeli fiction writers like Hersh.
I asked for a legitimate source. Keep at it.
"Or did you read something, somewhere, from some- shall we say- point of view."
Are you trying to say something nasty about me without actually saying it?
I read this in the 1980s, in a book titled "Merchants of Treason," which discussed how spies were no longer ideological (like Klaus Fuchs), but mercenary (like the Walkers), and how US counterintelligence over-focused on questions of ideology instead of looking for things like people spending more money than they were legitimately making.
Did you actually read the f***ing article?
Of course not.
Hersh, like everyone else, needs to be read carefully. On this report, he was at the top of his form. Note that he interviewed people who actually went on record with their statements as to what happened.
Apparently, William Casey thought Pollard's information went to the USSR, and was deliberately sent there by the Israelis. And Casey was a good friend of Israel throughout his tenure as DCI.
I don't know you and for now am not saying anything about you.
But authors on this subject have had motives- some less then "kosher".
And certain people with a certain disposition to want to believe stuff that logically makes no sense- such that Pollard- in his position- would have known names of deep cover CIA agents.
And these same people totally shut their eyes to evidence- such as my cited Weinberger quotes- which shatter their held beliefs.
If some butthead in the Philippine Supreme Court starts whining for their release, I'll happily tell him to piss off, too.
Yeah, on top of his form. Reporting on what a dead man (Casey)was supposed to have said.
(Even if he believed it, was that before or after they caught all those FBI and CIA guys who were actually spying for the Soviets?)
Weinberger is alive.
Nobody will need to. They'll be out in 2 at most.
Like other of a similar nature.
Burn in hell Pollard... you P.O.S.
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