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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Don't Free Spy Jonathan Pollard

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../../ivan-eland/jonathan-pollard_b_5072034.html

Ivan Eland

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Don't Free Spy Jonathan Pollard

Posted: 02/04/2014 10:26
More than twenty-five years ago, Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was convicted of spying for Israel. Ever since, Israel has been trying to free him.
Some in the United States also questioned whether Pollard should remain in jail, because, after all, he had "only" been spying for a cherished U.S. ally. However, instead of questioning whether Pollard should be behind bars, perhaps proponents of his release instead should be questioning the cozy U.S. relationship with Israel.
U.S. underwriting of Israeli security has only made that country more intransigent against making peace by returning land it seized by attacking its Arab neighbors in 1967. Now, the Obama administration, led by the crusading Secretary of State John Kerry, is now thinking about releasing Pollard to motivate Israel to extend essentially stalled peace talks with the Palestinians and perhaps make some ill-defined "concessions."

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