Posted on 09/20/2010 2:34:21 PM PDT by Nachum
Sources in the PMO submit deal to US by which Israeli spy would be freed in exchange for 3 month extension of moratorium, Army Radio reports.
Senior Israeli officials are considering a deal in which the moratorium on building in West Bank settlements would be extended for three months in exchange for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from the United States, Army Radio reported Monday.
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“He was caught spying for a friendly nation and deserved punishment.”
Actually he spied for 3 other countries including SAfrica and Pakistan, for money. He was a scum bag.
Much of the info he gave was not related to the MidEast.
“If it was simply friendly spying by Israel, why didn’t Pollard just knock on the White door and ask for the information?”
What “White door”? Are you really so simpleminded as to think that friendly nations don’t routinely play hardball games with each other?
Pollard took an oath to keep US secrets secret. He broke his oath and deserved to be punished. Under all the circumstances, 10 years in jail would have been a proper and more than adequate sentence. Life in prison is a miscarriage of American justice that should be corrected.
“Actually he spied for 3 other countries including SAfrica and Pakistan, for money.”
Do you have any evidence?
Pollard was convicted of one count of spying for a friendly nation, and then sentenced as though he had pled guilty to treason due to an ultra-secret memorandum by Caspar Weinberger. If that doesn’t make you uneasy, you’re entitled to your own opinion.
Sorry, that should have read, “White House door.”
And one day, Pollard will earn his way out of prison and on that day he will be carried out of prison in a pine box.
I don’t have to provide evidence, he plead out to spying for a foreign country. He got his sentence and will be released in 2015.
I think that people should realize that if you spy and get caught, it’s real life stuff. Don’t be surprised if he turns up dead a few years after 2015.
But a spy is a spy. He sold secrets for money.
He is lucky to still be breathing air.
You make his cause the cause of Israel at the expense of the goodwill of many Americans who value Israel.
Read about the dumber of the two Walker brothers in USAToday this afternoon, the appeal for clemency included the low value of the intelligence he passed.
I don't care. I want his parole denied.
Many Americans feel similarly.
“I don’t have to provide evidence, he plead out to spying for a foreign country. He got his sentence and will be released in 2015.”
Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for Israel, not South Africa or Pakistan (which at the time (mid 1980s) were also considered friendly countries!). So you say he should serve life in prison for spying he didn’t admit and for which you have no evidence.
As things stand at present Pollard will not be released in 2015. He will die in federal prison at the end of his natural life, which at least will make some people happy.
No way does the Kenyan Muslim do this.
As far as "our business," look who the Secretary of State is, the proprieter of Arafat's American Bed and Breakfast.
Asking for evidence in a national security case is just silly my friend. The life term was for the plea deal, which he broke. And Israel f’d up royally in the matter, pissing many pro Israeli intelligence people.
They have all kinds of evidence on this traitor. I tell you what, you get Israel to give us convicted spy Gen. Sella and Pollard can go free.
The truth is that Israel doesn’t give a flying F about Pollard except to get votes, just like Obama may cut a deal for votes. Israel sold him out, denying everthing for years, to save embarrassment.
There are many people who do know exactly what he did and they will lobby against his early release. And you’re right they will lobby for the full life term. If he is released, he knows he can’t sleep sound. Better he stay in prison.
Actually, I know this line. It's the Stormfront line. You really are a piece of work.
Now, go take that swim, turd.
“You make his cause the cause of Israel”
It’s the Israeli public who feel that way, who frequently rally in public to demand Pollard’s freedom. The Jerusalem City Council renamed Paris Square to Freedom for Jonathan Pollard Square, and I didn’t give them the idea.
They are motivated by the same feelings as Americans who insist on honoring that notorious spy Nathan Hale. Or the British, who granted a pension to John Andre’s mother and sisters, the title of Baronet to his brother, and moved his body to Westminster Abbey to lie underneath the monument ordered by the King; all for a spy! Their spy!
LOL, you guys aren’t as good as advertised.
In 1983, shortly after Israel and the US signed a memorandum on intelligence sharing, then deputy director of the CIA Admiral Bobby Ray Inman unilaterally breached the agreement by stopping all intelligence transfers to Israel on Arab and Muslim states not directly bordering Israel. This included Iraq, Iran, Libya, Tunis and Pakistan. Inman was hired after leaving the agency by a company called International Signal and Control. The company's owner, James Guerin, was imprisoned later for transferring military technology to Iraq and South Africa.
Caroline Glick The Jerusalem Post "Israel And Freedom For Jonathan Pollard"
Hehe. Another Stormfront delusion :)). Give it up, peasant.
I would think that you guys would be a little more concerned about stopping the Islamic Jihad all over the world than this two bit traitor.
Why the interest in this loser with so much work to be done?
‘I think finally Bibi got smart.’
I hope so.
Senior Israeli officials are considering a deal in which the moratorium on building in West Bank settlements would be extended for three months in exchange for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from the United States, Army Radio reported Monday.
I have to disagree with you on this one because the prison sentence was too harsh for the crime. The appropriate prison sentence, considering all the mitigating and exacerbating factors in the case, and comparing it to the range of other espionage sentences at the time, would be in the range of three to five years. I believe that Pollard has already served twenty-five.
The proper thing to do is to commute his sentence to time served, let him out, but don't demand a concession from Israel on building in the West Bank in exchange. There is no danger whatsoever from Pollard at this time, since whatever intelligence he stole is obsolete after all these years.
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