Posted on 04/30/2018 9:22:09 AM PDT by WisconsinRep
Israel hopes Jonathan Pollard, an American spy who served 30 years in prison for selling secrets to the Jewish state, will be allowed to emigrate there as the US moves its embassy to Jerusalem, a minister said on Monday.
"I hope that President Donald Trump will offer another gift to Israelis by allowing Jonathan Pollard to come and celebrate the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem," Israel's Transport and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz told army radio.
"I hope that President Trump will agree to that request with Jonathan Pollard having spent so many years in prison."
The United States is due to open its Jerusalem embassy on May 14 in a controversial move that coincides with the 70th anniversary of Israel's founding.
Pollard was released from prison in November 2015 after three decades in jail. He was given a five-year probation period during which he is not allowed to travel outside the United States.
Israel, which had long deemed his punishment unreasonable, welcomed his release.
The 63-year-old was granted Israeli citizenship in 1995 and his family says he wants to settle in Israel.
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Yes, stealing US secrets for anyone is a crime.
This is why spies should be exchanged or hanged, quickly, so that this sort of crap doesn’t come up.
Disloyalty for any reason should be rewarded with a rope.
Uh, “No,” Israel.
That arrogant, dishonest, disgusting asswipe Pollard had zero authority to "make up" for anything. You dishonor yourself by associating with him.
A lot of ignorant Jew hate pouring out here.
Shove it. Don't hide behind the "race" card; that's a damnable leftist tactic.
“it’s time to let him go free.”
It’s time to hang his traitorous ass.
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Casper Weinberger and others were frantic not to have Pollard released or even allowed to talk while he was imprisoned.
That’s because Pollard knew all about Weinberger and company’s making nerve gas and other chemicals in a Rockville, Maryland location
and then getting them to Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war.
Fly him to Israel and half way over kick him off the plane for being a spy.
If Pollard's actions were justified because Lyndon Johnson allegedly violated the terms of an agreement between the U.S. and Israel, then why did he pass classified information to South Africa and Pakistan?
Lyndon Johnson got in and said, "I never made that agreement." He cut off the sharing of intelligence with Israel.
A U.S. president has every right to do this.
Lyndon Johnson happened to be the President of the United States when the USS Liberty incident took place. You think maybe that had something to do with it?
A lot of ignorant Jew hate pouring out here.
And some folks here are apparently more loyal to a foreign country than to the U.S., too.
Northmountains REEKS of Jew Hate.
“Shae” doesn’t mean “everything.”
We don’t even do that with the UK.
Get F’n real.
LBJ was president and, if he wanted to cut off intel sharing, that was his prerogative. Pollard doesn’t get to make his own foreign policy, esp. with US intel.
Also, wasn’t there this little thing about a savage attack on a US ship about that time?
That is, “share.”
Why didn't Pollard ever apply for parole?
Some of us know the answer to that, even though nobody associated with Pollard -- including his "public defender" Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Israel) -- will ever admit it.
Who do you work for, Marvin? Who's paying you to shill for a traitor and a spy?
“A U.S. president has every right to do this.”
Alberta’s child is now a self proclaimed expert on US presidential legalities.
If Jonathan Pollard was spying for Lebanon or Egypt I'm sure you'd be singing a different tune.
What does that make you?
Jew Hater North Mountain is frantic.
Any facts disputing his Jew Hate makes North Mountain spastic.
Stupid optics for Israel and the US. Why have Pillars there at all?
I notice that you signed up on FR about the same time as Pollard's release was arranged. Coincidence? I don't believe in coincidence.
The standard Pat Buchanan Jew Hate
“And some folks here are apparently more loyal to a foreign country than to the U.S., too.”
Jew Hate is not being loyal to the US, despite what you think.
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