Posted on 03/23/2014 11:20:40 AM PDT by Nachum
If any of you had any doubt that Jonathan Pollard is anything other than a hostage being held by the United States, this should dispel them: The US is reportedly considering releasing Pollard as an incentive for Israel to go through with the release of 'Israeli Arab' terrorists at the end of this week in order to keep the 'peace talks' going.
The talks, which began last summer, were supposed to have concluded at the beginning of April with a framework for negotiations, to be written by Secretary of State John Kerry. But PA chief Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear numerous times that he will not concede on the Palestinian's “core” demands – an Israeli withdrawal from all of Judea, Samaria, and much of Jerusalem; free immigration of the descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 into Israel; and no recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
Under such conditions, Netanyahu has told diplomats, there is no way he could get an agreement with the PA approved by his government.
The US, therefore, is considering various “creative” ideas to make the deal more appealing, the report said. Among them is an idea Netanyahu himself proposed – releasing Jonathan Pollard, who has been in an American prison for nearly three decades on charges of spying for Israel. The diplomats said that it was not clear Obama would agree to such a condition.
Actually, this report doesn't even mention the possibility of 'Israeli Arabs' being among the terrorists released. It just says that Israel doesn't want to go through with the fourth terrorist release at all. Hmmm....
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Never happen.
so...Obama wants even MORE IslamoNazi terrorist murderers released..... anyone not understand yet just who he works for?
Every time an administration gets the idea to release Pollard, the intelligence community puts its foot down. They are so serious about it that they would be willing to destroy a presidency to prevent it.
Ruthless doesn’t even describe it.
If push comes to shove, I would not be surprised if they killed Pollard to prevent his release.
Can’t we just trade Pollard for Ambassador Stevens ?
He’s a traitor, plain and simple.
With an Israeli hater in the White House like Obama, the Israel lobby better lay off trying to free this traitor, who should have been shot.
The only friends Israel has now is the average American. When it get them angry, they will lose all support for their country when Iran starts its attack.
Um... I think they already did.
Every time an administration gets the idea to release Pollard, the intelligence community puts its foot down. They are so serious about it that they would be willing to destroy a presidency to prevent it.
Ruthless doesn’t even describe it.
If push comes to shove, I would not be surprised if they killed Pollard to prevent his release.
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I don’t get the hostility towards Pollard.
Pollard did wrong: He did the crime — and he has done the time. Now let him go to Israel, where he wants to be.
He was not giving intel to an enemy, as many others have done (and, at times, as I understand it, received lesser sentences).
It has been stated before that Pollard was given a very heavy sentence for what he did — heavier than the minimum sentence required.
Question are you and the “intel community” equally upset with Clinton for permitting missile tech to be given to the ChiComs. (Last I heard, he is not in prison.)
Talk about selective indignation.
Once you give intel to someone, even a "friend", you have no control of where that intel will wind up. I've heard some of the intel he gave to Israel, eventually fell into the hands of the ChiComs.
Makes we wonder if the Blind Sheik is still in U.S. custody. Wouldn’t surprise me if he wasn’t.
Once you give intel to someone, even a “friend”, you have no control of where that intel will wind up. I’ve heard some of the intel he gave to Israel, eventually fell into the hands of the ChiComs
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I have to agree with your logic, and I do not doubt that what you heard is true.
Nonetheless, it does not abrogate any of my arguments, as trials determine intentions. There is no indication whatsoever Pollard’s intention was to give anything to the ChiComs.
Also, you failed to address the small matter of Bill Clinton, who remains scot free to this day.
Pollard should have been released 10 years ago.
Another slow Sunday at Mossad headquarters?
This gets floated anytime someone wants Israel to give up land and sovereignty
Democrats have promised the release of Pollard in exchange for Israeli concessions before and reneged at the last minute (Clinton at Wye River). They are not to be trusted.
I have no idea about the particular quirk that makes them so enraged at Pollard; what matters is that they are. Whenever it is proposed, they always send in their heaviest hitters, whoever has most pull in Washington, so it is no joke.
I would guess that whatever he did, it was a lot worse than what he was punished for; but both the US and Israel will not publicly say what that was.
Importantly, this would not be a first. In past, Israel has carried out some staggering espionage operations in the US that were so extraordinary that they were hushed up by both sides, such as the theft of nuclear weapons klystrons; and the enigmatic, but large scale effort by Israeli “art students” to penetrate the US DEA.
In the klystron case, it was a brilliant operation, and the unnamed man who was the ringleader was captured and sentenced to life in prison in an almost secret trial, after he plead guilty. This was not done casually, as it was a key element to the entire Israeli nuclear program.
In any event, I still think that, for whatever reason, the US intelligence community will again be adamant about Pollard.
And Obama doesn't see this as an obstacle.
He spied for Pakistand, and he spied for material gain.
He sought drama, and ya know what? He got it.
We should deeply honor him by never letting him go, and we should make his stay as unpleasant as possible.
I pray he rots in prison, and dies there.
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