Has it occurred to you that perhaps this is being released now prior to a move by the Obama administration to release Pollard?
Perhaps in trade for concessions on building new apartments in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
My comments were made in a manner that stands above and beyond what Pollard did to supply Israel with information, the means in which it could deflect a direct threat from its enemies from classified information stolen from its unflinching ally. Once Pollard accomplished the perfidious betrayal in transmitting the classified information to Israel, the spying based on Pollard's concern for Israel's safety and concern should have stopped right there. At this point, Pollard's motivation could be seen as an ideologue out to help Israel and although criminal could be viewed as justifiable.
If Pollard was simply an ideologue, after getting what he required to protect Israel's security he should have stopped right there, but in pursuing the additional information of America's spy network inside of the Soviet Union his self-proclaimed legitimacy as ideologue was nothing of the kind. America's spy network inside of Russia held no threat to Israel and to procure this information for Israel came at a terrible price for America and was done not as an ideologue but as an opportunist of the worst kind. While the US lost incalculably, Israel in whatever Faustian Bargain they procured for themselves at America's expense will never have equaled the American losses by a hundred fold.
Israel shamed itself with the Pollard affair regarding procuring classified information to defend itself. But with selling Russia what Pollard revealed about the US spy network in the USSR exemplified the greedy, perfidious, back-stabbing, ugly opportunistic JEW stereotype that should have gotten Pollard the firing squad.
So please stop your crock of Crocodile Tears for poor, misunderstood,mistreated Pollard.