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IsraelNN.com) Deputy Minister (National Union) Tzvi Hendel today asked once again that the issue of the release of PA prisoners be linked to America's release of Jonathan Pollard. Hendel added "the impertinence cries to the heavens", explaining that while we continue to release terrorists, Jonathan Pollard remains in a US prison. Other requests made to the prime minister to link prisoner releases to the release of Pollard and Israeli citizen Azzam Azzam [who is imprisoned in Egypt] have been rejected by Prime Minister Sharon.

Jonathan Pollard transferred classified information, vital to the national security of Israel, to the government of the Jewish State in 1983. This information was about the weapons of mass destruction programs of rogue states in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria and Libya, who are likely to target Israel with chemical and/or nuclear weapons should they possess the capabilities to do so. The information was legally entitled to Israel under the 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between America and Israel. Pollard has repeatedly expressed remorse for his actions, and pled guilty to one count of "Passing classified information to an ally,...

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that if the changes now sweeping through the Middle East with US backing push Syria and Lebanon to dismantle the "Hizbullah terror organization," Israel may be able to obtain the return of its missing and captive soldiers. Mofaz said the Lebanese government should not be excused from responsibility for the "aggression toward Israel," but said that if it deploys its army to the border and neutralizes Hizbullah there could be a chance for neighborly relations and the missing could be quickly returned home. He was speaking to the Knesset in a session to mark...

As supporters of Jonathan Pollard prepare for a prayer rally on his behalf at the Western Wall on June 4, it appears that one of the most important questions surrounding his case has been answered. Former federal prosecutor John Loftus, in an article in the June issue of Moment Magazine, writes the following: "There is a good reason why neither Congress nor the American Jewish leadership supports the release of Jonathan Pollard from prison: They all were told a lie - a humongous Washington whopper of a lie. The lie was [that] Pollard had supposedly given Israel a list of...

When American intelligence broke the Soviet wartime code, we learned that the Soviets had infiltrated the American government. The American intelligence community’s penchant for secrecy and its refusal to admit that it had been infiltrated was so great that it failed to disclose this to President Harry S. Truman. This is how Daniel Patrick Moynihan described it: "The Soviets knew we knew they knew we knew. The only one who didn’t know was the President of the United States. Our politics was injured for 30 years by this."—Quoted in the New York Times, March 30, 2002 here is a good...

White Supremacist Pleads Guilty to 1999 Slaying of Gay Couple in CaliforniaThe Associated PressPublished: Feb 28, 2003 REDDING, Calif. (AP) - A white supremacist who admitted fire bombing three synagogues and a building housing an abortion clinic pleaded guilty Friday to killing a gay couple about two weeks after the arsons. Under a plea agreement, James Tyler Williams, 32, will be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the shooting deaths of Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder in their Happy Valley home in 1999. He could have received the death penalty had the case gone to trial....

Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem Friday February 14, 2003 The Guardian Israel accused Belgium of anti-semitism yesterday following a court decision which could lead to the prosecution of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister. The Belgian supreme court ruled on Wednesday that Israeli military commanders could be prosecuted for complicity in the massacre of 800 Palestinians in Lebanon in 1982. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's foreign minister, summoned the Belgian ambassador yesterday and told him that the action of the court was equivalent to a "blood libel" against the Jewish people. He also asked the Israeli ambassador to Belgium to return for consultations....

BARBARA POWELL, Associated Press WriterThursday, February 6, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/02/06/financial0034EST0009.DTL (02-06) 21:34 PST CANTON, Miss. (AP) -- All things being equal, the odds of Eric Gilkey landing a job at Nissan's sprawling new assembly plant are a slim 1-in-15. That's no knock against Gilkey, a 36-year-old state employee. It's just that Gilkey must compete with the 61,000 others who have applied for one of 4,000 well-paying positions the plant must fill by the end of the year. Nissan North America will open the first phase of its $1.5 billion assembly plant in May. The plant will make...

<p>United Nations, Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- France, Russia and other members of the United Nations Security Council said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's outline of evidence against Iraq made the case for strengthening UN weapons inspections.</p> <p>French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said the use of inspections to disarm Iraq ``has not been completely explored,'' and he proposed doubling or tripling the number of inspectors and adding French Mirage IV surveillance aircraft to scout suspicious activity in Iraq.</p>

In 1995, an American Naval officer named Michael Schwartz (a non-Jew) was arrested and, after confessing, indicted for spying for Saudi Arabia, an American ally. Schwartz's only punishment was discharge from the Navy with the loss of his rank and pension. He never spent a day in prison. In 1986, Dr. Abdel Kader Helmy was arrested and indicted for passing American ballistic missile secrets and parts to Egypt, which then passed them on to Iraq. Helmy's treachery led directly to Iraq's development of the Condor missile. At the insistence of both the State and the Defense Departments, Helmy was indicted...

As Jonathan Pollard continues to languish in tortuous conditions in a U.S. prison - he began his 18th year in prison last month - the questions continue to rankle: Why was he sentenced to life in prison in direct contrast to the terms of his plea bargain? Why are certain U.S. officials - past and present - so dead-set against any leniency to Pollard? Did a secret memo by then-Defense Secretary Weinberger accuse Pollard of treason, even though neither the charges against him nor any evidence indicate anything close to that? Some answers may be found in a letter by...

The third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, also known by his pen name, the Tzemach Tzedek, sent a letter to one of his emissaries on behalf of another, named Reb Chaim Yehoshua, who was languishing in a Russian jail. Through tireless efforts and at great personal risk, Reb Chaim Yehoshua had managed to rescue hundreds of boys from the fate of being inducted for prolonged service in Czar Nicholas´ army as Cantonists. The Czar´s purpose in recruiting the boys (literally boys) was to force them to accept baptism - by any means. Reb Chaim landed in prison due to...

Appeasement of Iraq Made Me A Spy by Jonathan PollardThe Wall Street Journal - Originally published February 15, 1991 JONATHAN POLLARD: ....the photos that I turned over to the Israelis were of a number of Iraqi chemical weapons manufacturing plants which the government did not want to admit existed. Why? ....What the administration was really concerned about was being placed in a position where it would have to admit that it had tacitly condoned the creation of an Iraqi chemical weapons manufacturing capability. Introduction - Wall Street Journal -February 15, 1991 In 1985, my son, Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to...

Plea For Pollard Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who has been very active on behalf of Jonathan Pollard, has asked once again to emphasize the importance of working for Pollard's release from prison. Rabbi Eliyahu visited Pollard in his North Carolina prison cell at least twice, and has offered to personally intervene with the American government in order to request his release. In a letter he wrote to Pollard's attorney Larry Dub, Rabbi Eliyahu states: "In response to the question that others have asked you, namely whether the mitzvah of Pidyon Shvuyim [the commandment to redeem captives] is...

                    A U.S. Army sergeant stationed in Germany is                   being punished, instead of the senior enlisted man                   he caught having an affair with his wife, even                   though such adulterous behavior is illegal.                    Worse, according to sources in Germany, senior                   officers may even have been ordered by top brass to                   keep quiet about the incident out of fears that the                   senior sergeant involved "may have something on                   them."                    Details of the affair involving Sgt. Ken Eiland, his                   wife Tina, and Eiland's senior non-commissioned                   officer, SFC Vernon Pollard, were first...