Free Jonathan Pollard

HaModiah 11-18-10
by Ben Caspit

The time has come to free Jonathan Pollard. Now. Not after the buidling freeze. Not as part of an inclusive package deal, and not as an add-on. Free him now, because it is the right and just thing to do.
Americans convicted of similar offenses have gotten sentences with numbers that have only one digit, and were on their way home in five years or less. But Pollard has been buried alive.
Yitzchak Oren, who served as political advisor to Prime Ministers Yitzchak Shamir and Yizchak Rabin, was the Israeli attache to Congress in Washington.
..."Not that he did not commit any offense. He did. But the sentence he received is grossly disproportionate...We gave the Americans the documents that were used to incriminate Pollard. Without these documents, the Americans had nothing on him. This was an Israeli attempt, by Shimon Peres, to appease the Aemricans, to satisfy them."
One of his conclusions is that Pollard had the misfortunate to work for Lakam, an acronym for haLishka leKishrei Mada (Bureau of Scientific Relations). This was an independent intelligence bureau run by Rafi Eitan, under the auspices of the Defense Ministry...
The Israeli Embassy threw pollard out of the Israeli Embassy, handed him over to the Aemricans, abandoned him, and even to this day, 25 years later, Israel refuses to do what needs to be done to free him.
He is still paying the price for the hatred that was intended for Lakam, which was regarded [by the Mossad] as an upstart, an unwanted next of kin who was bothersom and annoying, rebellious and undisciplined.
The Pollard file has been rotting in the hands of every Foreign Ministry deputy chief of the North American office...they have the Pollard file to ensure that nothing is done for Pollard...
The famous Weinberger memorandum to the sentencing judge, and all the false charges made against Pollard by Weinberger and senior intelligence officials, were fabricated. Pollard was a scapegoat.
Pollard touched a sensitive nerve, especially in Aemrica, and that is the issue of the "dual loyalty" of its Jews...Everyone was happy when Pollard was thrown into prison. This was their atonement.