Posted on 11/20/2010 9:01:47 PM PST by Nachum
Post told of new bid for jailed agents release on 25th anniversary of his arrest, with support of notable American and Israeli officials involved in Pollard's arrest.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked the US to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard as part of a series of gestures made to Israel in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, sources with knowledge of the talks told The Jerusalem Post over the weekend.
Sunday is the 25th anniversary of Pollards arrest at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He is serving a life sentence in prison in Butner, North Carolina, for passing classified information to an ally, a charge that normally carries a sentence of no more than 10 years.
When Army Radio first reported last month that Pollards name had been raised in talks with senior American officials about restarting the settlement freeze, Israeli officials denied that his fate was on the bargaining table. But sources confirmed that Netanyahu and American officials had discussed whether Pollards release could persuade Israeli ministers to accept another moratorium.
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Agreed, but only if the exact time and place of his release was made public. I have a feeling that p.o.s. wouldn't make it to a cab.
That wasn't the question.
If Pollard claims he did what he did as a result of Bobby Ray Inman unilaterally violating our agreement with Israel in retaliation for the Osirak strike, and you have to admit that's in fact what Inman did, Occam's Razor tells us everything else you have to say about Pollard's motivation is camouflage for your own agenda.
Pollard did it partly for money...But not wholly for money. He did it a lot more because as a Jew he thought Israel was getting screwed by US withholding vital intelligence from an ally and he was in a position to rectify that a bit. Spying? Yes but not like spying for an outright enemy like USSR. By the way after some years of weakness Russia is back trying to screw us mostly for vengeance over the Afghan war where we armed the Mujaheddin to drive out the Russians and bankrupting them.
Did he betray the US before, or after Inman decided foreign policy was his prerogative?
Vanunu is a Jew.
His motivation is not the issue.
His Constitutional rights were violated when the judge and the Israel hating Casper Weinberger engaged in an ex parte communication with the judge.
Pollard was convicted of one, ONE, only, ONE count: conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government.
That information was about Arab nations, it is now known for certain that he didn’t harm the United States.
The issue is whether he has been in prison for a sufficient time considering his crime, His motivation is insignificant.
You mean he plead guilty to one, ONE, only, ONE count.
Pollard is due for parole in Novemeber 2015. You can have him then.
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