What a slur. America is Israel's stalwart friend, and this is your gratitude - - a smear against the United States?
Some in the US want that, but the Bush Administration is a friend of both Jews and Israel.
Personally, I very much question the wisdom of releasing these terrorists at all. Why should they be released? Maybe the Palestinians should grow up and realize that when "Palestine" was partitioned after the Israelis won their revolution against the Brits, Israel was set aside for the Jewish homeland and Jordan (the remainder) was set aside as the "Palestinian" homeland. Maybe, if the Marxist-Leninist and anti-Semitic and anti-American trash that are the "Palestinian" leadership would have refrained from printing maps for their schoolchildren which show Israel on the maps, maybe if they did not keep their own people in concentration camps under the lie that the Jews have dispossessed them, maybe if they did not turn up the steam of anti-Semitism among the concentration camp residents to excuse every miserable failing of their own t care for their own people, there would be no homicide bombing campaigns. But NOOOOOOOO!
Then, the "Palestinians'" allies attack Israel on two occasions, get their backsides handed to them militarily by the Israeli military, and cause Israel to take the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This too is regarded as an outrage by the Leninist looney tunes in "Palestine" who dare imagine that the only justice is driving the Jews into the sea en masse so their failed attempts to do so cannot count and they simply must get "their" land back. All of this is not news. This is history. The last "moderate" Palestinian leader was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in 1929 who issued a statement welcoming Jews back into the Holy Land BEFORE the Holocaust. Of course, he was promptly assassinated by the lunatics for his moderation.
As to Nachum, he and I are acquainted only over the internet. He is a fine fellow and a good American who is apparently a bit angry that American policy (which seems to have no connection to American interests in this case) is trying to force the release from Israeli prisons those in the neighborhood who are the equivalent against Israelis of the 9/11 club, with the sole difference that they are trying to slaughter Israel on the sneaky installment plan.
To tell the truth is not to smear America or to slur her. If those prisoners are released, then Israelis will die as a result. Israel ought to say an unconditional no to the release. If Israel is willing to say yes, then releasing Pollard to them is no big deal. Whatever Pollard did, he is not likely to be in a position to do again. These criminals in the Israeli jails are VERY likely to kill again.
Finally, if Israel had a death penalty, we would not be discussing many of the prisoners in question.