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Interview: Esther Pollard (Wife Of Convicted Israeli Spy, Jonathan Pollard)
Israel National News ^

Posted on 10/20/2002 12:38:09 PM PDT by RCW2001

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1 posted on 10/20/2002 12:38:09 PM PDT by RCW2001
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... How long will we allow ourselves to be sitting ducks to accommodate foreign interests ...
Indeed. Only Pollard is an American citizen: our interests are not foreign to him--or at least they shouldn't have been. Pollard compromised agents on the ground, some of whom were killed; he should remain where he is at least until the seventh angel of the apocalypse makes his grim entrance.
2 posted on 10/20/2002 12:43:52 PM PDT by Asclepius
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That I am the wife of an Israeli agent in captivity.

Case closed! Throw away the key!

3 posted on 10/20/2002 12:53:07 PM PDT by MACD
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Rot in hell, Pollard.
4 posted on 10/20/2002 1:10:36 PM PDT by TomB
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A spy is a spy. Regardless whether Israel is our "ally" (sometimes" he is/was a spy. Let him remain in prison until he dies (hopefully a long time from now.)
5 posted on 10/20/2002 1:19:07 PM PDT by dark_lord
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I'd like to ask her just why if her husband acted so virtuously, he needed tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from Israeil intelligence to betray this country. In return, the Israelis sold much of the intelligence to the Russians and who knows who was killed. Let him rot in jail, and I hope its not one of the country club prison Club Feds to appease his incessant supporters. Take a poll; those in favor of Pollard's release are probably less than 10 percent of the American population.
7 posted on 10/20/2002 2:07:16 PM PDT by laconic
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You got my points, but I will add that none other than Janet Reno was against his release when Clinton was about to make a decision on the matter.
8 posted on 10/20/2002 2:14:34 PM PDT by Thebaddog
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Indeed. In the law, this is what's called an admission against interest. Admissible as evidence. Pollard should never see the outside of prison alive.
9 posted on 10/20/2002 2:18:05 PM PDT by CatoRenasci
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Some people are tempted to say that actions in favor of Israel contrary to US law may be justified as principled violations.

This may be true in the case of an American citizen who violates US law by overtly going to Israel and fighting against terrorists.

However, espionage is completely different. You never know exactly what will be done with the information. In fact (as I learned during an intelligence briefing as a PRIVATE in the National Guard), Russians have been known to pose as Israelis in order to get information out of Americans (i.e., "C'mon, you guys are supposed to help us! We're the good guys!")

The Taiwanese are another such case ... They engage in espionage in order to save money they'd otherwise have to spend buying it from us. Some American kid with info who happened to be sympathetic to the Taiwanese cause might be tempted to give them the info... But the person you're talking to could just as easily be lying to you, in reality having been sent by Beijing.

10 posted on 10/20/2002 3:03:26 PM PDT by American Soldier
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Pollard can just rot in the underground cells in Marion Supermax. He deserves his fate.
11 posted on 10/20/2002 3:10:27 PM PDT by CARepubGal
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Pollard betrayed his nation, he did it consciously and he received money from Israel as the price of his betrayals. Now he's paying the price to those fellow American citizens whom he betrayed; I wonder what part of this Esther doesn't understand.
12 posted on 10/20/2002 3:21:59 PM PDT by waxhaw
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A good friend of mine had a father who had a high level security position (I forget which agency) who was approached by someone claiming to be from the IRA, hoping to take advantage of the fact the man had Catholic parents from Derry. He didn't take the bait, and the so-called Irish freedom fighter was eventually caught, and it was revealed he was a Russian operative.
13 posted on 10/20/2002 4:51:39 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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This is precisely the reason convicted spies have to be executed IMMEDIATELY. So that they cannot be used as bait.
14 posted on 10/20/2002 4:56:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I am a staunch defender of Israel these days, but Pollard should have been executed for his treason. He should certainly never get out of prison.

Who are these people who think that Americans are free to make individual "principled" decisions about spying for "allies"? I would hope that some heavily tatooed man has made Pollard his b-tch, though I doubt it...

15 posted on 10/20/2002 6:58:20 PM PDT by Another Galt
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and I hope its not one of the country club prison Club Feds to appease his incessant supporters.

It's not. It's about 20 minutes from me. Some days I feel like riding over there and spitting in his face. Want to, it would be fun!

16 posted on 10/20/2002 7:02:03 PM PDT by Howlin
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Traitors like Pollard must never be rewarded.

Let him die in prison.

17 posted on 10/20/2002 7:05:21 PM PDT by LibKill
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How long will we allow ourselves to be sitting ducks to accommodate foreign interests?

Lol...

18 posted on 10/20/2002 7:09:12 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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IMRA: Isn´t Israel assisting Jonathan?

ESTHER POLLARD: Not at all. Not financially.

Well, not anymore...

19 posted on 10/20/2002 7:10:43 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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If you ever do,please spit twice, and tell the piece of excrement the second was from sarasmom.
20 posted on 10/20/2002 7:23:37 PM PDT by sarasmom
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