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Israel rules Pollard not prisoner of Zion
Science Daily ^ | January 16, 2006

Posted on 01/16/2006 8:10:56 PM PST by Howlin

Edited on 01/16/2006 8:30:39 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

JERUSALEM, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Israel's high court ruled Monday against convicted spy Jonathan Pollard's request to be deemed a prisoner of Zion and repatriated from the United States.

Pollard, a civilian U.S. Naval intelligence analyst pleaded guilty to espionage on June 4, 1986, and received a life sentence and a recommendation that he never be paroled.

He was granted Israeli citizenship in 1996 after Israel recognized his status as a spy and pledged to fund his legal expenses, the Jerusalem Post reported.

However, in court the government argued that Pollard cannot be granted the status because Zionist organizations and activities are not banned under U.S. law.

Pollard's wife, Esther, told Army Radio she found it "unbelievable" that Israel would work to release killers in other countries but let Pollard stay in prison.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: israel; leftbyhisownspypals; pollard; ratcaught; spy; traitor
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1 posted on 01/16/2006 8:10:58 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

We can send him back and keep the tens of billions of dollars worth of defense aid we send them every year.


2 posted on 01/16/2006 8:12:33 PM PST by Johnnyboy2000 (Give it all up tommorrow to live in world without crime, and go back tothe circuit riding motocross)
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Ping...


3 posted on 01/16/2006 8:13:07 PM PST by Howlin
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To: cicero's_son; SJackson


4 posted on 01/16/2006 8:15:40 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Johnnyboy2000

You don't want to defend Israel? Pat - is that you?


5 posted on 01/16/2006 8:16:06 PM PST by Peach
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To: dennisw; Sabramerican

Ping.


6 posted on 01/16/2006 8:16:37 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Peach

wow, I messed this post up big time!


7 posted on 01/16/2006 8:18:07 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

It looks fine; what did you do?


8 posted on 01/16/2006 8:18:33 PM PST by Peach
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To: Peach

too many links

here is some more:

The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected Jonathan Pollard's petition to be recognized as a Prisoner of Zion on the grounds that he was jailed by US authorities for spying against his country and not for conducting Zionist activity in a country where such activity is prohibited.

Pollard, who was represented by attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, first applied to the Prisoners of Zion Authority in the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption on May 10, 2004. After the authority and a subsequent appeals committee rejected his request, he petitioned the High Court of Justice.

On Monday, after publication of the High Court verdict, Darshan-Leitner told The Jerusalem Post that "after Pollard had been abandoned by the executive and legislative branches of government, she had hoped the judicial branch would do the right thing. But the court preferred to shut its eyes and do nothing."

According to the Law of Benefits for Prisoners of Zion and Their Families, which established the Prisoners of Zion Authority, anyone designated a Prisoner of Zion, or members of his family, is entitled to financial compensation. But Darshan-Leitner said Pollard had asked to be recognized as a Prisoner of Zion to improve his prison circumstances and help get him out of jail altogether.

"If he were declared a Prisoner of Zion, the US and Israel would do everything to get him released because neither country would want to be responsible for a Prisoner of Zion being in jail," she said. "Furthermore, it would stop jailers from tormenting and torturing him as they are doing now."

But the court ruled that from a legal point of view, there was nothing it could do. According to the law, a Prisoner of Zion is defined as someone who was imprisoned "because of his Zionist activity in a country where such activity was illegal."

Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, defined "Zionist activity" as activity "which would be considered legitimate in most countries of the world. Typical Zionist activity would include identifying with the State of Israel and its cultural contents such as teaching Hebrew and encouraging aliya."

Someone incarcerated for such activities would be eligible for Prisoner of Zion status, explained Barak.

But spying for Israel does not belong to this category of activities, said Barak.

"It cannot be said that an act of espionage on behalf of Israel constitutes Zionist activity 'in a country where Zionist activity is prohibited,'" he wrote. "The act of spying, including spying for Israel, is prohibited in the US as it is in all countries."


9 posted on 01/16/2006 8:19:36 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

This is good.


10 posted on 01/16/2006 8:20:12 PM PST by Peach
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To: Peach

Sorry for finding it offensive when a counrty that exists because of American taxpayers hires our citizens to spy and us and then grants that person citizenship. Not to mention what our "allies" did to the USS Liberty with the jets we gave them. What has Israel ever done for the U.S.?


13 posted on 01/16/2006 8:23:29 PM PST by Johnnyboy2000 (Give it all up tommorrow to live in world without crime, and go back tothe circuit riding motocross)
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Ping.


14 posted on 01/16/2006 8:24:18 PM PST by Howlin
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and keep the tens of billions of dollars worth of defense aid we send them every year.

Aren't you the fool.

15 posted on 01/16/2006 8:25:03 PM PST by Howlin
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This is GREAT!

I think I'll drive over tomorrow and blow the horn outside Butner.............LOL>


16 posted on 01/16/2006 8:25:53 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Johnnyboy2000
What has Israel ever done for the U.S.?

Wow, you just keep showing how ignorant you are.

17 posted on 01/16/2006 8:26:51 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Peach

Israelis are big enough to defend themselves.


18 posted on 01/16/2006 8:27:18 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Howlin
Pollard's wife, Esther, told Army Radio she found it "unbelievable" that Israel would work to release killers in other countries but let Pollard stay in prison.

PJB is that you?

19 posted on 01/16/2006 8:28:29 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Howlin

Just someone who realize that Israel does not care about U.S. interests other than the aid we give them., and that our country has gone through a lot of troublke for them and gets slapped in the face for it.


20 posted on 01/16/2006 8:29:10 PM PST by Johnnyboy2000 (Give it all up tommorrow to live in world without crime, and go back tothe circuit riding motocross)
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