According to a report from Israeli news site Inlan Merkazi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to accept the Obama Administration’s long sought “60 day” settlement freeze in return for the release of Jonathan Pollard.
Israel had previously been said to be “discreetly” approaching the administration about this idea, but now it seems they have moved to making it a formal, albeit secret, offer. The 60 days freeze has been a standing condition for the Palestinian Authority to return to peace talks.
The US-born Pollard has been in prison since 1987 for spying on behalf of Israel. Israel granted him retroactive citizenship in 1995 and has been pressing for his release since then. Though agreeing to a new settlement freeze, even a largely useless 60 day one, would be unpopular politically for Netanyahu, securing Pollard’s release would be a major victory, as the spy has become something of a folk hero to the Israeli right.
And indeed, even as these reports have begun circulating again, former US Deputy Defense Secretary Lawrence Korb made a special appearance on Israeli Army Radio demanding the release of Pollard, insisting that the sentence was “too severe.” Though ostensibly sentenced to life in prison, Pollard is widely expected to be released on “good behavior” in 2015.
"US Deputy Defense Secretary Lawrence Korb made a special appearance on Israeli Army Radio demanding the release of Pollard, insisting that the sentence was “too severe."
Gee, is this guy another one of those 'dual citizens'…??? I wonder if he and his Israel firsters friends like Lieberman are still werkin on a plan to take away the citizenship of Americans whose forefathers took lead in the revolutionary and civil wars for being critical of our current elected leaders and their policies…?? One has to give them credit for being brave ………. Yaa,…Giving the USSR our nuclear war strategy would have only cost us ten or twenty million AMERICAN lives in the event of war… And isn't it wonderful to know Pollard is a national hero in Israel…??? but Hey…. Spying for Israel isn't really spying…. cause aren't we all Israelis too..??
The real question is why does Korb have a job with the Defense department.? If he is for J. Pollard release then he should not be trusted. As a matter of fact why does the USA have dual citizens at all working for the government. It would appear that there is no such thing as a traitor to some.
It's just so weird that they get away with even asking. It's like this: you have a neighbor who is routinely taking a baseball bat to a ten-year-old kid who lives next to him. You keep asking him to stop. And he says, "okay, you know that guy who stole your credit cards, emptied your bank accounts, and burned your house to the ground a couple of years ago? Well, I know I denied it repeatedly, but not only did I know him; I hired the guy, drove the car, pointed out your house, and supplied the gasoline. But if you drop the charges, and forget all about it I'll stop beating this kid. For a few days. Then I'll be back at it."
"You'll do this, won't you? Because after all we're friends."
A prison environment has a lot of hard surfaces what with concrete floors and steel stairways. Maybe we could be rid of this icon of tribal treason by something as simple as a misstep and fall.
What a disgrace to attempt to actually trade something that is illegal aka the settlements for a disgusting individual like j. Pollard. Just what does Bibi feel is important in getting an individual who would sell his country down the river for money? Is there anyone on the planet who is more disgusting of an individual. Does Bibi not understand how badly he comes off looking for this kind of extortion? Does bibi care? Bibi was a failure during his first term as prime minister and clearly after the fiasco of Iraq which has destroyed the major policy of his likud Bibi is bankrupt and he has nothing. Clean break was the white paper written by Richard Perl an unofficial member of the Likud which calls for regime change in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria or in short every non jewish nation in the world. Israel is much less safe because the terminally stupid who pushed operation clean break made it sound like the world would fall into place as one nation's government was replaced with an Israel friendly government. What resulted was Super Iran which now is on the border of Israel with all its weapons at a distance too close to stop in case of conflict. If Israel bombs Iran then Iran bombs Israel from local spots. Bibi was one of the leaders who created this potential disaster.
The problem is what was the real work was the need of a regime change in israel. The fact that the Likud has been proven to be a disaster has not slowed down the stupidity as proven by the push to get one of the most disgusting individual on the planet out of jail. Do they plan on giving J. Pollard a metal for his treason? Do the people of Israel not understand that they cannot be in the face of the USA and expect continue support? Since Israel was created 60 years ago there has probably been 100,000,000 new immigrants to the USA. Of that 99,000,000 could careless about Israel and sure they would rather have our aid help them than going overseas. Just how is bibi going to cover the massive cost of a nation like Israel if htey are forced to live on the local economy, The people of Israel have to understand when the supporters of Israel start losing office they will lose the special tax laws along with the massive dollars of direct aid. One would hope that the rick kid from the mainline of Philadelphia aka bibi would just go to a corner and take some rest till the stupidity of pushing for J. Pollard passes.
The ONLY way Pollard should ever be sent to Israel is strapped to the nose of an ICBM.
In fact, Benji NutBag is coming to the US soon. He should be arrested and held to deport to the International Criminal Court for giving the order for a blatant act of piracy and murder aboard the Mavi Marmara.
no no no, he offered the settlement a freezie, no non understands what a nice guy the yahoo is.