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"If his dutiful wife needs a little, send her my way, I'm not too picky."

She might be, though. ;)

She might be, though. ;)

I can't believe you dignified this boor's comment with a response.

veronica:

the intelligence establishment really hates pollard nor has pollard ever missed an opportunity to increase their enmity for him. It is a cup I think he loves to drink from.

I used to be of the "Let him rot, however much I support Israel" school of thought.

Then I did some reading of statements by conservatives like Ted Olson and Angelo Codevilla . Olson was Pollard's attorney, but he is not stupid and not dishonest. Codevilla is a tough-minded conservative foreign policy realist. He has written a whole book, Between the Alps and a Hard Place criticizing the campaign by Jewish organizations in the '90's for reparations from Switzerland, so he is not exactly a tool of the Learned Elders of Zion.

Upshot: there are too many wierd things about the Pollard case for me. I don't know if I would call it antisemitism, but it certainly sounds like politicians and bureaucracy in full CYA mode.

The disparity between Pollard's sentence and those of others who did more harm is troubling. Why, for example, is Pollard doing life while Ana Belen Montes is doing 25 years?

Those who insist that there is something shameful about Israeli governments asking for Pollard's release apparently watched too much "Mission: Impossible" in their youth and believe that a government should "disavow any knowledge" of its intelligence people when they get caught. Israel for all we know has people inside Iraq and Iran. How encouraged they would be if Israel wouldn't even ask the friendly U. S. to free Pollard.