It is really a pity. With Richard Allen and Alexander Haig gone, there were no friendly views toward Israel to steer Pres. Reagan in the proper direction. George Schultz, a Sec. of State and Bechtel owner, was warming up to Israel, but how much influence that relative newcomer to the Reagan Administration had, I am not sure. At least the greatest President of the 20th Century did not personally hate Israel as Jimmy Carter and the Jimmy Carter on steroids, Barack Hussein Obama, do. The Reagan Administration recognized the PLO because George H. W. Bush (Bush 41) asked him to do so.
And then there’s that wonderful photo of GWB holding hands and strolling with the Saudi prince or king or whatever the heck he is.
Clinton used Pollard to get Israel to agree to a bunch of suicidal things and then reneged. Don’t remember the issue coming up with Bush 2. Now we have Kerry dangling the Pollard carrot. That will go nowhere as well. This is less about Pollard and way more about my country’s leaders, whom I despise even more.