In making this request, Pollard claimed that American jailers had been torturing him, by denying him sleep, and using electric shock therapy on him.
I don't believe it.
Why these allegations now? Because of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Pollard saw an opening to make a publicity play.
Would the U.S. Department of Justice be so stupid as to mistreat a high-profile prisoner like Pollard, who has a large number of American Jews advocating for him? Are they that stupid?
A question, for the pro-Pollard crowd: what happens when an Israeli is caught spying for America? According to CAMERA (hardly an anti-Israel source):
A citizen who spies on his country for another, even a friendly one, is breaking the law, and risking his life. Everyone knows this. Americans should be loyal to the U.S., and Israelis should be loyal to Israel. Anyone who is unable to do so is living in the wrong country.America's Spies in Israel
Yosef Amit was an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces, responsible for running agents in Arab countries, who eventually rose to command an intelligence base on the border with Lebanon. While there Major Amit ran into difficulties with the law in 1978, and was discharged from the IDF. Eventually going to work as a private investigator, he was recruited into the CIA by Tom Waltz, a Jewish CIA officer based at the American embassy in Tel-Aviv.
The Americans were supposedly especially interested in information on Israeli troop movements and plans in Lebanon and the territories, which Amit provided. He also apparently passed to the Americans secret documents from Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, which he got from a friend who worked there.
The Shin Bet eventually caught up with Amit in 1986, when he was secretly arrested for espionage. The trial was also secret, though it is known that Amit received a long prison sentence. (Ha'aretz, Dec. 12, 1997)
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Every time Pollard comes up, reminders of this Debka article come to mind:
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=336
In June 1984, Jonathan Pollard began working as an analyst for the Threat Analysis Division of the US Naval Criminal Investigation Service’s Terrorism Alert Center in Washington. This division handled the most sensitive data coming in from satellites and CIA field officers. Some of this secret material, Pollard passed to Israel, but another part relating to the Far East, he offered to Taiwanese agents, unbeknownst to his Israeli controllers.
The trouble was that most of the Taiwanese were double agents also employed by Chinese mainland intelligence. Both Chinese services therefore received the sensitive American secrets he handed over. Aware of this, Pollard decided to expand his Communist Chinese market for secrets. To this end, he had his first wife, Ann Anderson Pollard, join a New York public relations firm employed to enhance Beijing’s image in the United States. Pollard diverted to his wife information reaching him as an analyst at the INS Terrorism Alert Center, for the sake of her advancement in the firm. Neither realized that their dual ties with the two Chinas were sucking Pollard into the devious machinations of one of the most dangerous spy rings in the history of US intelligence. Certainly, the Israelis with whom he worked had no notion of this.
Not a very good idea on his part.
Buzzimp,
"Palestine" is not "occupied". "Palestine" is not a country, and never has been.
Israel has a right to exist. The Jews have a legitimate right to self defense, including stuffing a missile up anyone's ass who is trying to arrange suicide bombings of Israeli citizens.
Israel is not a "racist" or "apartheit" state. Israel is one of the only countries that treats religious minorities decently. In Israel, Arabs can vote, have a free press, and have a high standard of living, compared to non-oil producing Arab countries such as Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, etc.
The P.A., on the other hand, is a disfunctional state, ruled by thugs and thieves, which is unable to provide even rudimentary services to its citizens. Hence the success of Hamas, which at least is able to keep the streets clean when it promises to do so. The leaders of the P.A. have fat Swiss bank accounts while the people suffer, but to shift the blame, everything is said to be the Jews fault.
So you know where I stand on the issue.
Pollard was spying and breaking the law of the country in which he lived, and of which he was and is a citizen, therefore he deserves to be in prison.
I wonder how many Palistains fit that description...
Oops! Nevermind, I've only got ten fingers and toes to count with.
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