Posted on 09/20/2010 2:34:21 PM PDT by Nachum
Sources in the PMO submit deal to US by which Israeli spy would be freed in exchange for 3 month extension of moratorium, Army Radio reports.
Senior Israeli officials are considering a deal in which the moratorium on building in West Bank settlements would be extended for three months in exchange for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from the United States, Army Radio reported Monday.
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Hey Jews. How much for the spy?
No, Pollard is a criminal. We’d be lucky to get 6 months of delay. No thanks.
How odd that you choose to present this as an anti-Semitic shakedown by the US.
Let Pollard rot.
Bwahahahahaha
We’d be lucky to get 6 months of delay.
Nope. He's a bargaining chip now. Welcome to Obama justice.
Add Juilan Assange and SPC Bradley Manning to his cell.
The only reason for doing this is to encourage more espionage by US Jews against the US.
Why would we want to do that?
You certainly wouldn’t be the first Roman Catholic to incite and collaborate in the murder of Jews. If such a fate were deserved by anyone that would have been Hitler’s Pope.
Have you ever thought why Israel needed to spy on the US? No, I thought not.
Americans don’t care why another nations would spy on us, but we do all agree that those who spy on the US should be hanged or locked in a dark, damp cage for life.
Israel often releases Palestinian prisoners in order to get back kidnapped hostages. If Israel now demands the release of Pollard in return for a mini-freeze on settlement construction, then Israel will be conceding that blackmail is acceptable.
The U.S. already made its deal with Pollard when it let his wife go.
We don’t know exactly everything Pollard did. However, the implication from the U.S. government has been that it was pretty bad and the people died because of him.
Nice.
Rat Bastard Pollard isn't a Jew. He's a convicted spy. He should have been hanged. Or fried, like the Rosenbergs. These days, filth like Pollard, Robert Hanssen, and Aldrich Ames get off relatively lightly ...
Then there's you, puking up comments reveal ignorance and a lack of intelligence on your part.
why Israel needed to spy on the US?
I don't give a rip what some foreign nation thinks its reasons for spying on MY country might be ... employees of MY country's government, members of MY country's military have no business selling MY country out to any foreign power.
To Hell with Pollard, and to Hell with creeps who try to play the race-card in his defense.
Nobody with a brain believes that sad and stupid myth.
Specifically, are you an incompetent Israeli agent, or a filthy American traitor?
It works two ways. The US government is willing to negotiate too. And- we aren’t sure who made the offer for Pollard. Yes, Israel negotiates the release of its prisoners because it has no choice, but what of this administration?
This administration hates Israel. That attitude is stupid.
This administration loves militant mohammedans. That attitude is suicidal.
How does this bear on Rat Bastard Pollard?
I'm reluctant to guess.
Now? He's just a 'bargaining chip'.
It remains to be seen whether this Administration will go along with it.
But who made the offer? How do you know it is only Israel that sees him as such? The article is only saying that Israel is mulling an offer.... made by the Obama administration.
The traitor should be never released, he gave up his nations defense secrets for another nations interests.
The Pollard case is a travesty of justice. Pollard should have been released long ago; No one was harmed and many lives were saved.
1. Jonathan Pollard was never indicted for harming the United States.
2. Jonathan Pollard was never indicted for compromising codes, agents, or war plans.
3. Jonathan Pollard was never charged with treason. [Legally, treason is a charge that is only applicable when one spies for an enemy state in time of war.]
4. Jonathan Pollard was indicted on only one charge: one count of passing classified information to an ally, without intent to harm the United States.
5. Prior to sentencing, then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger delivered a 46-page classified memorandum to the sentencing judge. Since then, neither Pollard nor any of his cleared attorneys have ever been allowed to access the memorandum to challenge the false charges it contains-a clear violation of Pollard’s constitutional rights.
The day before sentencing, Weinberger delivered a four-page supplemental memorandum to the sentencing judge. In it, he falsely accused Pollard of treason. Also in the supplemental memorandum, Weinberger advocated a life sentence in clear violation of Pollard’s plea agreement. The implication that follows from Weinberger’s false characterization of Pollard’s offense as “treason” is that the country Pollard served, Israel, is an enemy state.
6. Pollard was shown the supplemental Weinberger memorandum only once, just moments before sentencing - hardly adequate time to prepare an appropriate defense to rebut the false accusations in it.
7. No one else in the history of the United States has ever received a life sentence for passing classified information to an ally - only Jonathan Pollard. The median sentence for this offense is two to four years. Even agents who have committed far more serious offenses on behalf of hostile nations have not received such a harsh sentence.
8. Jonathan Pollard is the only person in the history of the United States to receive a life sentence for spying for an American ally.
9. On November 21, 2009, Pollard entered the 25th year of his life sentence, with no end in sight.
10. The maximum sentence today for such an offence is 10 years.
11. The median sentence for this offence is 2 to 4 years.
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/sentences.htm
12. Pollard’s attorney never appealed from the life sentence. The time to file for such an appeal was within ten days of sentencing. Years later, with a different attorney, Pollard filed a habeas corpus challenge to the sentence.
The Court of Appeals, in a two-to-one decision, rejected the challenge, largely on procedural grounds.
The majority placed heavy emphasis on the failure to appeal from the life sentence in a timely manner, and on the resulting far heavier burden faced by Pollard in seeking to challenge the sentence via habeas corpus. [Note: “Habeas corpus” is a procedure by which an incarcerated person may bring a court challenge to the legality of his or her incarceration - often long after the underlying case has been concluded.]
In a dissenting opinion, Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Williams called the case “a fundamental miscarriage of justice,” and wrote that he would have ordered that Pollard’s sentence be vacated.
13. In November 1995, Israel granted Jonathan Pollard Israeli citizenship. The official presentation took place in January of 1996. This publicly signaled to the U.S. Israel’s willingness to accept full responsibility for Pollard.
14. U.S. government sources falsely accuse Pollard in the media of passing “rooms full of classified information” and “hundreds of thousands of documents” to Israel. This volume of information is an absurdity! Pollard would have needed to make numerous “drops” using a moving van to have transferred such a large volume of information. In actual fact, Jonathan Pollard made a grand total of eleven “drops” to the Israelis, using only a small briefcase to hold the documents.
15. The U.S. government used an insidious formula to exaggerate the volume of information that Jonathan Pollard passed to Israel. The formula was: if only one page or a single sentence of a document was passed to the Israelis, it was counted as if the whole document had been transmitted. Even referenced documents and sources were counted as having been transmitted in toto. Using this calculation, a single page could be counted as 50 hard-bound 500 page volumes!
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