Posted on 05/08/2005 9:34:25 PM PDT by SmithL
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Jonathan Pollard, an American imprisoned in the United States for spying for Israel, is seeking to be declared a Prisoner of Zion — a status that would require Israel to do all it can to get him released, his lawyer said Sunday.
Israel, which has pressed the issue of releasing Pollard with the U.S. government, has so far refused to assign him that status, which was originally created for Jewish activists imprisoned in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s.
Pollard's petition alleges he was kept naked for more than a year in solitary confinement in subzero temperatures. It claims his U.S. jailers also soaked him with ice water, forced him to sleep on a bare concrete slab, and lied to him that the Israeli government had arranged his release.
His lawyer, Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, said Pollard has complained about torture to the U.S. Embassy since the outset of his imprisonment nearly 19 years ago, but this is the first time the complaints have been included in a legal document.
The document asks Israel's Supreme Court to force the government to declare Pollard a Prisoner of Zion, she said.
Asked what took Pollard so long to go public with the alleged torture, Darshan-Leitner said he did so after despairing of persuading the Israeli government to declare him a Prisoner of Zion.
Pollard was a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy when he copied and gave to his Israeli handlers classified documents. He was not paid when his spying began in 1984, but acknowledged that Israel later began paying him a few thousand dollars a month.
Pollard was caught in November 1985 and arrested after unsuccessfully seeking refuge at the Israeli Embassy. His case has strained U.S.-Israeli relations.
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Gee, I would have thought the unrelenting, huge steaming load of BS he has been passing would keep him very warm
Free Jonathan Pollard!
Jonathan Pollard is accused of having given Israel information about the Iraqi nuclear reactor and the Iraqi program for attacking Israel with nuclear weapons. Why the U.S. had not shared this info with Israsel is an important question for future historians and theologans to grapple with. It's clear that Jonathan will be exonerated by history. The shocking double cross by prosectors with whom he struck a plea bargan is a travesty of justice.
Israel used the information to preempt the Iraqi nuclear threat to Israel and the West. Perhaps the U.S. would have provided the same information to Israel soon after Jonathan did in any case; one would hope that would have been the case. While the ends do not necessarily justify the means, Jonathan's law breaking was far, far lesser than others', yet his sentence was the harshest - life in prison. He loves the U.S. In contrast, those who were in fact out to harm the U.S. and passed information to the enemies of the U.S. walk free.
Jonathan was accused on passing information to the very strongest ally the U.S. has anywhere in the world - that was true then and remains true.
Actual traitors - people who have tranferred information to the enemies of the U.S. receive a fraction of the sentence that Pollard has received. Jonathan has been singled out and a life sentence is vastly disproportionate and a travesty of justice.
There is no other conclusion to come to but that Pollard's extreme Kafkaesque situation derives from anti-Semitic bias, a pattern for which there are, sadly, precedents in history.
A Christian finding religion in prison is seen as a positive development. Not so for Jonathan Pollard's increased practice of Judaism.
There are other reported instances of prison officials refusing Pollard humane treatment, even small requests, such as not allowing anyone to get him a new pair of frames for his old glasses to replace the broken ones whose metal digs into his face.
Too bad his accusations aren't true. The traitor would be dead.
He and his then-wife also profited nicely from their treachery as they were paid tens of thousands of dollars for the information Pollard filched from his position of trust. So much for his supposed idealistic motives. I think he should be put in the same cell as Moussaui, birds of a feather flcok together.
Now we know why this Spy was caught - He will not shut up.
Every six months there's another "why we need to free Pollard story".
Just STFU and serve your time.
My knowledge would also profit nicely, if You kindly provided it with information in support of Your claim.
For one, I don't sit and look at tranny festivals. My reply on that thread was made as a joke to Killjoy because he is a photographer.
Second, I don't even know what the heck you are talking about...ATM's in China? WTF?
Last, none of the technology on my laptop was developed in Israel and I could care less if it were.
Why don't you grow up and get a life you poor little pathetic moron.
But the wicked carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
How can we sing King Alfa song
In a strange land
Cause the wicked carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
How can we sing King Alfa song
In a strange land
Sing it out loud
Sing a song of freedom sister
Sing a song of freedom brother
We gotta sing and shout it
We gotta talk and shout it
Shout the song of freedom now
So let the words of our mouth
And the meditation of our heart
Be acceptable in Thy sight
Over I
So let the words of our mouth
And the meditation of our heart
Be acceptable in Thy sight
Over I
Sing it again
We've got to sing it together
Everyone of us together
By the rivers of Babylon...
He spied on the United States of America. End of story. He is a traitor to our nation, and anything less than death by firing squad is too good for that turd. Maybe he should have thought about the potential ramifications before he stole our secrets. I support our relationship with Israel, but NO ONE has the right to betray America, even for our allies.
My comment to TLR was not a complaint about ATM's. Had yout read it carefully insted of shooting from the hip with your rabid unintellectual mind, you would have noticed that.
Second, I don't have AOL instant messanger installed on my computer. I used the web program. Nor do I have a Pentium chip.
Don't get your panties in a wad and start putting words in my mouth that I didnt say you little pipsqueak.
I never said I hate Israel and I just dare you to point out otherwise or STFU.
I'm just sick of the US giving them blind support when they also like to contribute to our enemies such as China. If it weren't for OUR support, they wouldn't have any..so why do they continue to sell us out?
Now, if you can respond in an intellectual, rather than rabid and ignorant manner..I will continue this dialogue. Otherwise...GF.
The are only two things "Kafkaeske" about Pollard's "situation".
First, his own fantasies about torture and inhumane treatment.
Second, your fantasies about anti-Semitic bias.
Get a life. Pollard is a traitor who should have been shot.
"Experts" can be paid to say anything.
Are you an expert?
Nobody here cares; we all think he should have been shot years ago.
You should be embarassed to post that tripe; he didn't care one whit about being a Jew until he decided it was his way out if he can convince a bunch of gullible people he's a martyr.
This guy is a player till the end. You're being played.
Ah, he admitted it himself. How's that?
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