I also love my brothers and sisters - but if they do me wrong, I will call them on it. Doesn't mean I don't love my family.
My biggest issues with Pollard are twofold:
(1) He has never expressed the slightest remorse - he acts as if he is a great but long-suffering hero who has been wronged by both the United States and by Israel. He is a purely evil piece of human detritus.
(2) At the time Pollard was spying, Israel was communicating with both the US and the Soviet Union. I'm not criticizing Israel - dealing with both was a necessary process of survival - but Pollard is not stupid and he knew that much of the information he was handing over was of tangential interest to Israel, but of strong interest to the Soviets. He gave US information to Israel knowing that its only value to Israel was in trading it to the Soviets.
His claim that he was "only helping a US ally" is repulsive and insulting to the intelligence.
Put him and Manning and Jane Fonda, in the same chair and I will volunteer to pull the switch.
Techsical Information that Pollard gave to Israel went directly to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union would then let Jews immigrate to Israel.
No punishment is adequate for this guy. He should rot where he is.
Nonsense.
He gave Israel information that helped Israel attack the PLO/Arafat headquarters in Tunis in 1985. The information he gave was about Israel's enemies.
Pollard stole US secrets and what he did we call spying but he didn't spy on the US (which has a connotation of gathering information to do damage to the US).